[Swansea Hackspace] Next Technical Events?

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:02:15 +0100
Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:05 +0100, David Davies-Day wrote:
> > That's great,  thanks Justin. I imagine it will fly through
> > polystyrene,  the discs you get under supermarket Pizza to be more
> > precise 
> 
> Reading around suggests that HIPS/polystyrene is tricky to work with,
> the cut edges are prone to puffing up.

The pizza bases knife cut beautifully and precisely, not tried disc
cutting them. They are a staple of modelmaking and a lot of building
modeller swear by them. They do need to be coated in something after
cutting as the surface is otherwise easily damaged if not hardened.

Alan