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First Hot-Wire Knife Prototype

Four D-Cell batteries connected to aluminium busses and a steel wire.

 

Works, sort-of. Like cutting cold cheese with a butter knife.

 

Problems:

The steel wire does not get hot enough. Should be using Nichrome.

The aluminium sucks the heat off the ends of the wire, so it's only hot in the middle.

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Uploaded on August 1, 2006
Taken on July 31, 2006