Re: Terrain

agoodall@canada.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 01 May 2001, Roger Books wrote:
> 
> > I wouldn't expect the hot wire cutter to be able to cut the paper
> > on the outside of the foamcore...
> 
> Some foamcore consists of thin sheets of styrene sandwiching a layer
of dense foam. That MIGHT be fine with a hot wire cutter, but I'd assume
that the styrene would melt along the edge. Instead of a square cut
you'd end up with a round cut.

A hot wire cutter wouldn't go through styrene (or at least the one I
have wouldn't) - even if it did, you'd end up with a blackened edge to
the styrene with molten gunk that would need cleaning up.

Tony

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Tony Francis
Senior Software Engineer
Kuju Entertainment