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Hot wire foam cutters are not necessarily expensive. I made my own from existing materials laying around. Granted, it is not the safest in the world, but it does the job. I simply took some nichrome wire I had from and old toaster I got at the thrift storeand clipped it to be about 6" long. Then I took two aligator clips and attached them to two seperate insulated wires. I hooked these wires to the variable voltage screws on my power pack, clipped the nichrome wire between the two aligator clips and it was done. The power pack is quite powerful as i found out. The speed setting neds to be only around 20 or 25 for me. Around 30 or 40 the wire glows red. It heats up pretty fast. I do not plan to use this for long periods of time, only intermittantly. <br />Reed
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