A high quality CNC foam cutter build in CFI

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Be Careful
posted 1 year, 10 months ago by Meghanath Rugada

When the machine is in use, please be cautious not to touch the HOT WIRE as it make cut through human skin very easily.

Heat sink for Drivers
posted 1 year, 10 months ago by Meghanath Rugada

Just made a box with four conducting pillars (metal screws) and 8 aluminium L frames in order to achieve high conductivity of heat and easy grounding and easy cooling using ...

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Making the Motor Coupling Cheap
posted 1 year, 10 months ago by Meghanath Rugada

The standard couplings are very expensive, where as we have used RUBBER GAS PIPE HOSING as coupling and damper with zero back lash by adjusting tolerances between shafts.

Keeping the hot wire tight
posted 1 year, 11 months ago by Alex JV

The simplest way to keep the wire tight is to include to springs on either side of the nicrome wire

Bed of the foam cutter
posted 1 year, 11 months ago by Alex JV

We wanted the bed of the foam cutter to be light and rigid. We could use a plywood to get the flatness but in order to prevent the bed from ...

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Build for reliability
posted 1 year, 11 months ago by Alex JV

We had earlier build a low quality version of the CNC Foam Cutter. This was designed to be much more robust.

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