<div dir="auto">We used nichrome wire. Attached to an auto transformer for voltage control.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 9:40 PM Jon Lagerquist via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I remember hearing about folks using fish tape. I would guess it would hold a profile but take a lot of power.<div><br></div><div>Jon<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Jon Lagerquist<br>--</div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 1:21 PM Dan Sheehan via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Been quite a while, butI have used piano music wire, forget which gauge.<div>It's super good steel.<br><div>Compromise between amperes required to get it hot enough</div><div>and maintaining enough  strength to hold shape while hot.</div></div><div><br></div><div>And the fumes were nasty.</div><div>Fan blowing across the work to outdoors,</div><div>worker stands between fan & work.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:41 AM Jeffrey Kanyuck via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello Everyone!<br>
    I am in the process of setting up a hot wire foam cutter to make specific shapes such as large oversized moldings for sets. What wire have any of you used for creating a shape that stays while running the foam down it? <br>
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Jeff Kanyuck<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>...Dan Sheehan<br>Fixer of things that break</div><div>TD Walpole (MA) Footlighters</div><div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)">​</span></b><b style="color:rgb(76,17,48);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span>​</span>"</b><font color="#4c1130" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Life isn't about how to survive the storm, </b></font></div><div><font color="#4c1130" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>     but how to dance in the rain.</b></font><b style="color:rgb(76,17,48);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">"</b><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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