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- From: sdejour@mksol.dseg.ti.com (stewart l dejournett)
- Subject: Re: Has anyone used foam for roadbed?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.190936.21482@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1993Jan26.155252.3355@mcs.anl.gov> <1993Jan26.110847.46774@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:09:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.110847.46774@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.155252.3355@mcs.anl.gov>, winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans) writes:
- >> This stuff is pink and is NOT styrofoam. I think it has a silver
- >I've tried with mixed results to use various shapes of rasp-surfaced
- >drill bits to rout out ditches and lowered terrain on bead board.
- >This (a) makes a Gawd-awful mess and (b) leaves a surface that's
- >not only fuzzy but (with bead board) too rough for N-scale dirt.
- >Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
-
- One thing on cutting foam that I have found is a device that looks like a
- coping saw but instead of a saw blade it has a nicrome wire that is heated
- by two D cells in the handle. It cost $5 and is easy to use. However, bee
- forwarned use this in your garage since the fumes are really too strong to
- do in the house. I also got another device that plugs into the wall it was
- around $10. The cuts are nice. These are availible in your local Arts &
- Crafts stores - look around their styrofoam section.
-