While there are all sorts of ways to build a hot wire foam cutter, this design from [jasonwinfieldnz] is both interesting and imitable. If you don’t already know it, nichrome wire is nifty stuff ...

We’ve seen a fair number of automated wire cutting builds before, and with good reason: cutting lots of wires by hand is repetitive and carries the risk of injury. What’s common to all these ...

Unearthing a rusted pair of barbed wire cutters from a historic battlefield reveals a tool once used by sappers to clear obstacles. Layers of corrosion are carefully removed, restoring the ...

This results in a much cleaner cut than the pinched cut you get with normal wire cutters. When you back the bolt out of the stripper, the threaded mechanism is designed to clean up any ...

Pliers, for example, may be counted three or four times if they can function as needle-nose pliers, regular pliers, wire cutters, and wire strippers. It’s key to pay attention to the quality of ...