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RE: Cork for Mops


That'd work great!!!   Didn't know they had anything that small and 
cheap.  What I was refering to are the 48" ac powered rigs that'd let you 
make the suckers in bars 3 or 4 feet long and then hack them in little 
pieces,,, and for the money,,, they aren't slow.  You can run foam thru 
them about the same speed as 3/4 plywood thru a tablesaw.


At 09:56 AM 9/15/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I bought a hot wire foam cutter at a "craft" type store recently for $6.00.
>Works on two D-cells.  A bit slow, but otherwise fine for cutting 1 1/2" X
>3' styro rods [also at the same store] into disks for use in building
>floating mops.
>mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Grif" w. keith griffith [SMTP:kgriffit at wolfenet_com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 11:56 AM
> > To:   killietalk at aka_org
> > Subject:      Re: Cork for Mops
> >
> >
> > If you're going to go to the trouble of trying to cut the styro,,, white
> > blue, or pink,,,  I'd bet the stuff in the building trade has a bunch of
> > chemical stuff in it.,,, but anyway, on to better stuff.
> >
> > find where your local rc plane folks hang out and get one of the builders
> > who has a hot wire foam cutter to help you out.  You could make a few
> > hundred in an evening with a bit of thought. ,,, little square rods with a
> >
> > notch in the middle should be easy enough to whack out by the bucket full.
> >
> > At 10:49 AM 9/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >> Is your experience, Lee, that styro is safe for long-term tank use?
> > >
> > >Is all styro the same?
> > >
> > >Normally, one thinks of the white stuff from cups and shipping
> > >containers.  But what about the blue insulation for home insulations?
> > One
> > >could easily pick up a life time supply from a home construction site
> > >scrap pile, although it would be cleaner to by at the home supply store.
> > >
> > >One appealing aspect of the shet styro is that you can cut it into strips
> >
> > >to acheive the same effect of the wine corks w/silicon.
> > >
> > >Bill Vannerson
> > >McHenry, IL
> > >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/william_vannerson
> > >
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> > 'Grif'   N7IVS
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