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Richard Boyd:
Yesterday evening I embarked on a mission to try and cut a thin airfoil wing for a wee glider I have in mind to experiment with.
The span on the wing is 1.9M, this is dictated as thats twice the lenght of my bow.
The material I am cutting is styro foam.
I have a tranformer with 2 heat settings,

Now reality !
I cut quite abit of foam and have not yet succeeded in producing a wing !
The wire is dragging when I am cutting, it is a problem for me to have both arms working at the same speed !
I donot want to spend anymore money on this project

Any tips ?

Richard

Ron:
No tips Richard. :(
But I'm also very interested in cutting foam, and have been put off so far by just the sort of thing you are describing.

Any ideas anyone  :?

Ron

Richard Boyd:
Hi Ron, we can both learn together !
I have only a small garden shed to cut foam and it also houses the lawnmower etc.
I donot want to be building a monster machine to cut the odd wing lol
Simple/stupid for me please.

Richard

Richard Boyd:
Hi Ron, I spent a few minutes searching and found this video, its perfect for me !

I am of to the garden shed to burn some foam.

 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/ckxnNRSM3YE[/youtube]

Ron:
Hi Richard,

That video is excellent.
Like to see what results you get. 8)

Ron

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