Re: How to use a hot wire (Kanthal) to cut a plastic bin containing a liquid
From: Mark Thorson (nospam_at_sonic.net)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:42:02 GMT
Lasse wrote:
> Is the needed currency a function of liquid temperature(liquid/solid
> phase), bin wall thickness and wanted cutting speed or are other
> factors involved too?
When I was a teenager, I attempted to build a hot-wire
cutter for Plexiglas. (I was awfully tired of sawing it with
a hand saw and had not yet discovered those great knives
for cutting plex.) I learned that the reason you do not cut
Plexiglas with a hot wire is that it welds itself back
together in the trail of the hot wire, and the rewelded
seam is almost as strong as untouched Plexiglas.
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