Foam cutter - How to make it the easy way!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- How to build a foam cutting table the simple way... to cut foam, styrofoam or plastic.
There are many of videos showing different ways to build your own hot wire foam cutter or “styro-slicer” (ie King of Random) which are all great builds- but time consuming. If you are after a quick easy DIY method to make a homemade foam cutter - then this is for you. I plan to use this in the future to cut foam to add additional buoyancy to a boat.
I needed a styrofoam cutter for a project that was cheap, full size, could cut angles & had variable heat - plus could be made quickly - from what I have seen this is the most full featured, yet easy way to make a professional size foam cutter.
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Thanks heaps for the support everyone! What do you think? Should continue to throw some “practical” builds into the mix now & then? I am also still planning on some more “catch up/ update videos” plus some other (fairly random) non-build comedy videos. I guess I am mostly going to make vids that my brain tells me but I am always curious to hear what people get out of this channel. Cheers guys!
Get them out there! You'll quickly find out what your audience likes and doesn't like. Regular content is key to growing your viewership (and to satisfying some desires I didn't know I had, don't tell Kristen).
I think you found an awesome format. I personally am here because I like your humor and anything related to tech / building. Obviously can't speak for everyone, but you'll find out I guess :)
Personally I subscribed for your sense of humour, and that makes itself known in every video of yours, regardless of content. So practical or not, I'll watch it!
Just do what you do. You do it well 👍🏻
Really like the commentary, you’re a very funny guy. It doesn’t matter what you’re making I always get a good laugh and learn a thing or two👍🏻
I love it all. I think everything you do is gold.
"Talk to your foam about feelings and stuff". Well lucky you. Mine just wants to roll over and fall asleep.
good video, but i dont understand why the video was upside down, apart from a vew seconds around 7 minutes or so. greetings from germany
@Gort Newton Could the wifi antenna just be turned upside down instead?
@Gort Newton Still worth it to watch one of Turnah's videos =)
Great video! If I don't have a free battery available, could I use the 6 volt setting on my plug-in battery charger to heat the wire? Or would I be flirting with electrocution and fire?
Love your humor! There's a guy named AvE on RUclips. You'd probably love his stuff!
Remember back in the day Grant Thompson built something similar. May he rest in peace
Yup
Yay! Been waiting for another vid 👍👍👍
Genius 😂
I made a combination of your version and the king of random's version.. but less complicated.. it took me about 72 dollars...
there are professional people who spend money to get qualified, then this
noice
i hope its a hot wire thingy ma jig
What if I don't have a tripod to kick? Will an empty paper sack work, and will it still work if it's Imperial not metric? Please help I can't get the rest of this built I'm stuck at the step.
Damn. That crocodile clip on the wire is such an easy control solution I bet there's more than a few other builders facepalming after watching this.Also, doesn't what you've got also count as a foot controller? I'd put it in the cathegory of 'close enough'. You could always insulate the spring and then just use that crocodile clip as your on/off.
love it. I reckon I will do this!
'Egg of Columbus'...
I agree that crocodile clip on a wire is so simple and yet so awesome. I have just improved my own foam cutter the same way. Comes very useful especially if you are cutting different kinds of foams since some require higher temperatures.
I like both the absurd builds and the more or less practical builds; keep up the good work.
This guy needs way more subscribers this is gold
CRIKEY! Could you build a WIRELESS version of this build, too, mate? 😜
Strong laser perhaps
Really
That simple workaround for the temperature control is genius.
Thanks man. Weird how sometimes the easiest thing just works out good.
Can this be used for slicing Swiss roll? I don't have any foam, would cheddar be a safe substitute? 👍 ☺
Thank you for the idea!
RIP King of Random
TheCbrown146 mate this isn’t the king of random
@@crafteromine2493 he knows
@@crafteromine2493 it's The King Of Random(TKOR) May he rest in peace🙏
@@crafteromine2493 I'm sure he said that because the video uploaded mentioned TKOR.
Aussies have just the right mix of Monty Python and Steve Erwin
I found out that a single thread of a steel clothes line combined with a car battery works great.
Nicely done. I have a shop and occasionally need special tools like this that you only use once or twice a year so keeping it cheap and simple is always the way to go and you nailed it here!
This tutorial was friggin awesome and hilarious. Absolutely loved it, thank you!!
As always.. heaps of entertainment. You’re totally right, my wife hasn’t noticed the hole in my dining room table at all!
I have an old hairdryer where the bearing has gone bad. I've kept it, because I thought I could maybe try to straighten the heating element in there, which I think is nycrome. It probably has no transformer, so it would run on 220V. Would it get hot enough for 12V if it's short enough, you think?
Hmm. Not sure might be too thick. Doesn't need much heat though to cut. It may be wavy while stretched out though.
Brilliant video I especially enjoyed the tantrum which I think most people assume never occurs but it's part of the stress resolving process of creativity... Blowing things up also works 🤣 great video thank you
Yes. It's a thing. You will like my next video then. I think I have my biggest ☹ moment yet.
@@Turnah81 ha!
never seen your vids before.. was loking up basically how to make a cutter using an old PC power (you didnt do that) .. BUT I found your video kinda funny, playful like .. and this is why im now subscribed to your channel .
cheers and have a good one
you got a new fan my friend, great video had to watch 3 times, couldn't stop laughing the first 2
Hey thanks for checking out my stuff.
This video alone has got me subscribing. Practical and hilarious.
Cheers hope you enjoy future videos.
Okay, I've gotten past the two cat videos and have moved on to this video for building a hot wire machine to cut expanded polystyrene foam. After drilling a hole in the middle of your parents dining room table it seems a little "out there" to risk getting thrown out of a free room and board living situation to only get a hot wire to cut foam with.
Perhaps you could improvise this hot wire in the middle of the dining room table to also cut meat and meat byproducts such as balogna. The added benefit of this is so obvious, I can't believe that you didn't already have this completed, or at least partially completed. The obvious added benefit is: As you slice the balogna with the hot wire, you're converting a plain old piece of cold meat byproduct into a delicious, hot dinner entree... Grilled hot balogna sandwiches. You can control the degree of cooking temperature of each slice by slicing faster for rare, and slower for well done. What more could your guests expect? Cooked-to-order meat, cooked and prepared right there at the dinner table.
I know, it's NOT like a Japanese restaurant that chops up food with razor sharp knives and flips it around in the air landing in perfect alignment on your dinner plate. But look how much money you've saved by staying home to entertain and feed your dinner guests.
Barry Litchfield 🤣😂
Can this cut polyurethane foam?
holy shit he's back
You could leave out the expletive!
I suggest you make something that could be used to make several videos with different topics. That way it'll be more efficient in time and investment for you. This styrofoam cutter is already on course. First building the cutter. Next several topics are using the cutter to make some oddly funny useful things. Then you can mod the foam cutter into a plastic cutter, then carve some plastic thing, etc.
Yay another video! Thank you Santa for working your magic.... I guess it was well worth it sitting on Santa's lap this year
Honestly, I have no interest in whatever it is that you're building, but I can watch your videos all day for your humor! I love it, keep it up!!
Hahahahahaha! Funniest DIY video ever! :) and helpful! Bill gates says he always hires the laziest people Bc they always find the quickest and best solutions :) u could work for him! Love this video so much :)
Best foot controller ever. Love. ☺️
Your building techniques scare me. But they also remind me of some of the strange and stupid things I built a lifetime ago at uni while doing a threatre production course. I do love your sense of humour and after watching your back catalouge of videos I look forward to the third installment of your cat repelling video.
You are awesome. Love your cat videos. Thanks.
Make a laser that cuts through 10 inches of steel in the next video! :D I'm not proud of this comment, I know it's silly. But I already wrote it, so it is what it is
i could really use that
Nice ideas here, yes, the shorter the connection the hotter the cutting wire gets!
Actually, I'm looking for ideas for a horizontal hot wire cutter, for cutting airfoils for wings, there are quite a few of those around too. 👍
Pvc bow I reckon is a good option. I used one for wide but super thin cuts
HAHAHAHAHA that was awesome! Thanks loads, very helpful (and entertaining) :)
Just watched this brilliant video, spot on get's the job done and chuckled all the way through.I Was thinging what current, psu, contols, wire gauge I'd need. All questions answered. Cutting foam in the back of my campervan conversion simple, leisure battery connected to solar panel and stuff I've got hanging around. I will binge my way through other videos of your's - Cheers
I used fuse wire susptned with a heavy load tied to the bottom of the wire, connected + and - from the batterry, then slid the 50 mm polystyrene along,,, just a length of fuse wire suspended from anything in free air and a load at the other end,,,, worked fine, the bottom end of the wire is pendulating, but with the right weight and a slow motion of the polystyrene,,, I got nice straight cuts.
The cutting wire is WIRE NICHROME RES 80 .32 MM.. this wire is a resistance wire and gets hot easily when current passes thru it..
thanks for making this, Craig! you've got some great videos!
Hi, i noticed you only used polystyrene, how would something like this hold up aginst something like, High Density Closed Cell foam blocks, please?
I tried making this but it didn't work.
I dont think i kicked my tripod hard enough
Great stuff. Love the humor. Laughed so much at a video of yours this morning that I'm here again this evening and subscribed.
A thought.. Remove the ends from the glass fuse. Drill a hole in the wood for a press fit the O.D. of the fuse. It would be insulate th wire. Thanks for your videos!
You do entertain...Great channel 👍👍👍
Your off the hook, don't stop
I like making rc airplanes. But I suck as a pilot. So I go through alot of $1 foamboard. Im ready to move up to insulation foam boards. But they're messy unless cut with a wire, So thanx for the tip.
Whats the typical household power down under? 120V or 220V. Cuz I was wondering why not just use AC?
Nice video man! This is exactly what I was looking for!
I’ve just found your uhhhhhhh tutorials on you tube. Awesome original content. Two thumbs up mate 👍🏻👍🏻. Aussie ingenuity at its best.
yeah..."tutorials". You should see me trying to pick the youtube category option when uploading some of these. haha
0:06 At first I heard, "...with random sh*BLEEP* sourced from around the shit." and thought you forgot to, or intentionally left out the bleep for the second expletive. That made me chuckle LOL!
So this guy is my kind of humor, but it was his timing on the 4:34 joke that made me subscribe.
How spring acts as an resistor? and how scrolling the wire changes the resistance...plz explain, I'm new to this and I've searched the whole web......i couldn't find the answer.
This seems a bit random and dodgy. Then again, it took 20 minutes, it very clearly came out of that little corner of the world where every animal is trying to kill you, and … it includes a temperature control. What else could I ask for given that?
An insert to keep from singing the hole I guess? And a proper power switch? Yeah, those would be nice, but they'd take at least another five minutes.
Fun project. Flying cooler seems like a useful project too. Airlift a cold one to those in need. A worthy cause.
Thanks I did not want to have to design some elaborate control circuit. I just want to cut foam I find dumpster diving so I have the right size and shape for shipping things sold on eBay. Also, I see many artist casting concrete sculptures using styrofoam as a cheap mold form.
Wait cat video 3 is coming soon!? Yeessss!!!
A serious build with no fucking around??? I mean it IS one of your videos, right??? The guy who brought us pissing back on pissing cats? Loved that one btw!!!
Bs. Take a piece of old electrical wire, strip, unravel and end up with a piece resistance wire. Create a jig with leftover cardboard. Ad a 9 volt block battery, and your done. Whatever.
How do you only have 30k
Bwahahaha. Great info, excellent idea and F@@#$en funny too. Thanks a million. Made my morning.
Awesome. Video
From one skinflint to another, foam plus acitone equalls a reasonable if ugly fixing epoxy.
You sir, are sooo hilarious. I just love your sense of humour. Keep going!
"...as soon as you connect this to the battery your hot wire should be up and cranking and might lightsaber the shit out of anything that comes in contact with it." I laughed until I nearly got sick....this along made me subscribe.
All this is very good, but can you somehow combine this with your flying cooler and design something to stop folks thieving beer out of my esky?
(O.O) When he said it was going to be super quick built, I didn´t expect to be that quick.
However, I'll be installing a switch, otherwise, I will burn myself pretty often. XD
LOL,,,, " You're gonna get all the carbon..."
Congratulations you just wasted just under 2 minutes of my time talking to foam, etc.!
Now that is my kind of foam cutter!!! The best i have seen!
I hate cat piss!
Talk to it about your feeling??? Damn near fell out of my chair laughing.
Awesome stuff , I .want to build some stabilizers to my kayak. I do have some fair sized pieces, just needed to confirm the build in my mind.😁
cool. good luck with the build
Funniest video i have watched in a long time, and i learned something!
Don't know how i found your chanel, love your work mate.
Watched 6 videos and I subscribed on the first one.
Ozzie ozzie ozzie
Awesome, cheers!
Mate....your a fuckin legend! love your dodgy builds and humour! subbed
CAT VIDEO 3 NOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So what would it take to make this capable of slicing trough plastic like butter?
I'm going to make this for my next foam kayak build
Can you please tell how the negative wire connects with the cutter wire..thanks.
This is the one of the greatest diy videos I've ever watched and it has absolutely nothing to do with the build. Pure entertainment.
hmm and we all have all this in garage. This is not cheap nor fast built.
RIP grant
Love your videos
I look specifically for the kind of stuff you build came across your channel. Brilliant, funny, right to point.
You sound like korg from the thor ragnarok movie
I was trying to get it to work for hours but i forgot to kick my tripod then i did that and it worked
Al-YOU- MINIUM! lol you have fangs dude.
*GREAT VIDEO!!* Do you know what gauge is of that Nichrome wire? Amazon only shows Nichrome wire available with a G number. Is 0.32mm the same as 32G ? I am wanting to use the same wire as what you used.
Cheers! I used this one here: www.jaycar.com.au/nichrome-resistance-wire-4-metre-pack/p/WW4040
OK, OK, that we really entertaining AND actually quite useful.
That goddamn flying cooler still scares the shit out of me.
Hi friend
just found your channel mate awesome! good to see a fellow Aussie on here : ) keep up the great work!
Subscribed. Want more shit. Right now.
What was the temperature of the wire? the wire isn't eating the foam.
1 dislike... Geeez Craig, you've got a naysayer...
Was thinking the same. It's probably a jobs worth health and safety officer
@@ArcanePath360 Bloody Do-gooders...
@@AussieStrats Tell me about it. Real men don't want to be wrapped in cotton wool. We want to loose limbs in the work shop, it's how we learn.
haha thanks guys
Good video
thank you
from sri lanka🇱🇰🙏🌷
loved it, thank you, made sub as soon I watched this, off the store i go! weee