Simple and basic but will cut through  polystyrene and styrofoam with no more mess. Includes Instructions.

Battery operated Hot Wire Cutter for cutting polystyrene foam or styrofoam. It comes complete with wire (but advisable to order extra wire) and only requires 2 x AA size batteries to be operated - Don’t use alkaline but you can use Zinc Chloride, Carbon Zinc or Lithium. Can also be used with our 3 volt power pack.

The unit can be adjusted for cutting foam up to 60 mm thick and has a throat size of 180mm. (This means you can come in from the edge this far)

Hot wire polystyrene cutters are used to contour polystyrene foam (styrofoam) into many different shapes. Model railroad builders shape foam landscapes, model aircraft builders use this also in construction. Many scratch modellers also use the hot wire cutting tool. Any one working with polystyrene or similar type foams will find many uses for this tool.

The ideal tool for making and shaping all those Christmas tree ornaments also very handy for your children's school projects.

You can search for "how to make a hot wire cutter" and realise that it's cheaper and easier to buy this inexpensive kit - and also a little less complicated as well.

A good tip for using this unit is to mount it in a vice (using soft jaws or wrap the cutter to protect it) and then feed your work through it. Much easier to handle this way and gives you a lot more freedom with your designs. 

We sell this for cutting polystyrene and styrofoam. Denser type foams will be a very slow process to cut and could also be problematic.

Also make sure wire is stretched tightly around the ends - otherwise it wont cut. 

  Extra 5 meters of nichrome wire for hot wire cutter can be purchased separately.