Happy to say I have the Proxxon cutter. Yes much more expensive, but a lot bigger and easier to put together. However, looks like this can do the same job and I might have tried it if I had seen it first. Congrats to your daughter for seeing it through!
That green part is only in the picture and it’s supposed to go on the spring part underneath. I bought one and I think I’m going to throw it away because it’s a safety hazard to not have an off switch. I’m not about to get burnt trying this thing. lol. I only paid $4 so I’m not losing much.
LOL, that's what I get for letting the kids assemble something... I certainly hear what you are saying about the off switch, and unclipping to turn it off is a hassle. I've also noted the wood warping underneath where the bottom spring attaches which is effecting the tension. But as you say, it's cheap enough, and at 6 volts only, its not like it's going to electrocute me with the lack of a power switch, and the burn is going to be less than if I slip with my hot wire knife. At least it can do straight cuts which I only do rarely and the knife can't really cope with.
Could you please tell me how long the delivered wire was? Thanks a lot !!! I wonder, how ofen I can replace it, in case it smaps at the worst possible position (AvailableLength/MinimumDemandedLength)
OK, to be on the safe side you would need a length of 30cm from terminal to terminal for it to work. although you could get away with 15cm at a real push if you tied off at the top terminal and wound the other end to the tension spring (using the spring as a terminal). In addition to that 30cm already used, there is an extra 75cm at least that came with my set. Hope that helps!
@@the_minimal_dm Yeah, I´d surely manage to go with the 15cm, I can solder copper-wires at the ends, just to use less of the hot-wire. So, with around 75cm, there´s plenty of that ! Thanks a lot, again, I just bought it too!!! Also, tell me, you are in New Zealand, so you use cm more often than inches?
LOL.. you caught me out... yes, for a lot of things I tend to use cm or mm, especially with wargames stuff because the figure scale and base size is normally in mm. But I'm originally from the UK, so I do default to inches or feet for a few things... I know my height, but couldn't tell you what it is in cm!
Happy to say I have the Proxxon cutter. Yes much more expensive, but a lot bigger and easier to put together. However, looks like this can do the same job and I might have tried it if I had seen it first. Congrats to your daughter for seeing it through!
yeah... once she got over being a drama queen!
That green part is only in the picture and it’s supposed to go on the spring part underneath. I bought one and I think I’m going to throw it away because it’s a safety hazard to not have an off switch. I’m not about to get burnt trying this thing. lol. I only paid $4 so I’m not losing much.
LOL, that's what I get for letting the kids assemble something...
I certainly hear what you are saying about the off switch, and unclipping to turn it off is a hassle. I've also noted the wood warping underneath where the bottom spring attaches which is effecting the tension.
But as you say, it's cheap enough, and at 6 volts only, its not like it's going to electrocute me with the lack of a power switch, and the burn is going to be less than if I slip with my hot wire knife. At least it can do straight cuts which I only do rarely and the knife can't really cope with.
That reminded me of the cards against humanity game
Yeah... she hasn't gotten any better
Could you please tell me how long the delivered wire was? Thanks a lot !!! I wonder, how ofen I can replace it, in case it smaps at the worst possible position (AvailableLength/MinimumDemandedLength)
OK, to be on the safe side you would need a length of 30cm from terminal to terminal for it to work. although you could get away with 15cm at a real push if you tied off at the top terminal and wound the other end to the tension spring (using the spring as a terminal).
In addition to that 30cm already used, there is an extra 75cm at least that came with my set.
Hope that helps!
@@the_minimal_dm Yeah, I´d surely manage to go with the 15cm, I can solder copper-wires at the ends, just to use less of the hot-wire. So, with around 75cm, there´s plenty of that ! Thanks a lot, again, I just bought it too!!! Also, tell me, you are in New Zealand, so you use cm more often than inches?
LOL.. you caught me out... yes, for a lot of things I tend to use cm or mm, especially with wargames stuff because the figure scale and base size is normally in mm. But I'm originally from the UK, so I do default to inches or feet for a few things... I know my height, but couldn't tell you what it is in cm!
I just put mine together. It was a right bugger. And I'm still not sure it's right.
That's why I got somebody else to do it so I could have somebody to blame if it went wrong 😜
@@the_minimal_dm ah! You seem like management material! Have you thought about a career in politics?
80% getting annoyed at the instructions, 18% making dick jokes, 2% actual building.
plus 100% mad cow disease...