[PSUBS-MAILIST] Cutting styrofoam

[David Colombo via Personal_Submersibles]

Rick, a word of warning, if your cutting too hot and creating a smoke
trail, its toxic.  Too hot also creates a hardshell melting of the foam.
Trial and error have been a good teacher for me,  and a good mask filter is
important.

David

On Sat, May 18, 2019, 9:55 PM Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Doesn't the foam compress under pressure?
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> Brian
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> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
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> From: Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <
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> To: psubs chat room <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Cutting styrofoam
> Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 12:32:55 -1000
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> Just addressed something that I have not been looking forward to and it
> worked great!
> I had some thin SS wire laying around so I figured out the length I needed
> it to be then attached one end to the ground clamp of my welding machine
> and the other end to my electrode holder, set the machine on its lowest
> setting ( 10 to 55 amps DC ) then started turning up the rheostat with the
> wire pulled tight and at 40% the wire started going through the styrofoam
> like butter! So anyone that has a welder and will be cutting styrofoam in
> the future, this works great.
> Rick
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