You'll Cut Styrene in SECONDS!

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Hi everyone!
I've been secretly developing a styrene cutting tool, and now I really think I have something interesting to share!
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This is not the end - True Cuckoo
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Shot with a Canon Eos T3i (600d)
Off Sound Record with a BM-800 through a Scarlet 2i4
Edited in FCPX
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#3dprinting #maker #tools

[@aquatrout]

I’m glad I’m not the only functional hoarder out there haha. Super cool build!

[@CutTransformGlue]

:DDD thanks buddy

[@torymiddlebrooks]

Love to see your creativity!

[@spinafire]

This was a nice little deviation from the usual build. Iterative design is always a fun process. Excited to see how you use this in future builds!

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thank you!!

[@Nosculptor]

Even though I'm not using polystyrene sheets, toolmaking is always interesting to see. :D

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thank you!

[@petermerz2704]

Nice Jig! Very practical!

[@CutTransformGlue]

thank you!

[@LaserGadgets]

Very practical!

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thank you :D

[@mrwigley9883]

I've been watching quite a bit of your videos lately, and subscribed for your future videos. I'm really happy to see some of your tool videos to help me with my builds. This is a great idea and will most likely steal it for myself. I did have one idea to possibly make this a little better? if you add a pivot point on the stationary slide mount and a 90 or 180 deg slot and degree marks with a tightening thumb screw on the other side, you could cut various angles as well? Obviously you would have top redesign your slide mounts but shouldn't be to much? Keep up the great content!

[@WCPRCModelsCraft]

Amazingly simple and effective tool. Good work and new subscriber

[@barryjack3025]

More cool tools to make your craft better! Nice job. It’s like a matte cutter for doing picture frames.

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thank you!

[@Zawfee]

Even making your own T-square. Amazing. 💙

[@nscaledelights]

Thanks for your video on your DIY styrene cutter, I'm so frustrated trying to make a straight cut with a ruler and X-acto blade. Im hope to build this to improve my building skills and take them to a higher level. I downloaded the stl files for your styrene cutter, I'm happy to support your ingenuity.

[@kamhaq]

i will suggest use Dremel with this slider as circular saw, i have a long extension with Dremel for cutting

[@CutTransformGlue]

I've been thinking of trying to incorporate the Dremel in this jig.. I'll probably try that in the future

[@normanvincent1217]

Nice job.

[@mattiasfagerlund]

Sweet - you could also use the tool as a surface groover when you want material that isn't a flat plane. Like the boards on the side of a house made of styrene.

[@CutTransformGlue]

That's exactly what I thought after a while using it!

[@MonstroUK]

You can save yourself time filing the bit by sharpening a flat head screwdriver head and using that!

[@CutTransformGlue]

That's a clever idea, thanks buddy!

[@mestapho2011]

this is truly an awesome and functional piece. I'd love to have myself.. unfortunately.. all those years i spent tearing apart printers i didn't keep anything long term. i wish you're channel was around in 2000 to spark these ideas..lol. i cut a lot of styrene and I find the chopper not adequate for my needs. great job.. enjoy the breaks from the build when it's really useful.

[@krampusklaws2238]

There is a glass/tile cutter tool that works on a similar design. You would easily be able to use one of the cheap ones for styrene costs like 10-15 bucks.

[@mestapho2011]

@@krampusklaws2238 cool thanks. i knew it was modeled after a tile cutter but i've not seen one that small. again thanks.

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thanks buddy!

[@stevewatts3502]

Copyright Cut Transform Glue. Best tools are the ones you make yourself... well done sir.

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thank you!

[@DarkMatterWorkshop]

Great tool ! Might make one in the future, I hate cutting styrene.

[@CutTransformGlue]

Yay, thanks :D

[@ThereandBackaKen]

Now you just need to make the same jig but with a ruler and pencil so you can mark the lines on the styrene. Also, maybe have a transparent plastic insert on the forward side of the central jig so you can see the blade/pencil? Still... pretty kickass and love that you build it all yourself.

[@CutTransformGlue]

Love the see through idea buddy! Thank you!

[@graemebrumfitt6668]

With out a shadow of a doubt Henrique, always beterer to make tools yourself! TFS, GB :)

[@CutTransformGlue]

Agreed! Thanks buddy

[@AJB2K3]

use a bit of lithium (dry) grease on the bushes to make it slide smoothly

[@paktahn]

graphite would be better

[@CutTransformGlue]

Ill try the graphite first since I have it here, but I need to get some lithium grease for my ender 3 so..

[@standupjoe]

I would buy this!

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thank you :D

[@wesrrowlands8309]

I like the looks of this tool, I can't cut a straight line even with a ruler and my styrene cutter is really tiny.

[@D.G.1979]

i like very much this styrene cutting jig, i found is very useful and simple, one thing that i notice that you cut in blind because the blade is in the middle of cutting silde, also cut in blind if you have a little piece you can't reach, but if you move the blade on the side where you move to cut you can see and cut little pieces, perhaps could be a good solution is to make a customizable place of you blade. However very good project!!!

[@CutTransformGlue]

Great idea buddy! Thank you so much

[@stanseel8900]

As I was watching the video I thought to myself this guy needs some bronze linear bushings no sooner had I thought that then you went to the next part of the video and installed the bushings my second thought is why not using off-the-shelf Cricut cutter blade also give your files a bath in vinegar for a couple days great video keep up the good work

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thanks buddy! Now I know they are called "bronze bushings" and I can look for more :D

[@RetroRoboland]

Really interesting process. You show some sketch books on some videos. Did you have a sketch of how you wanted the base to look? How often do you draw?

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thanks buddy! I don't draw that often, but sometimes it's really helpfull

[@marcmoreno9663]

Kitbashing acquire its letters of nobility with you, dude ! ;)

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thank you so much, buddy!

[@dadsrcworkbench1322]

Have to tried to file the shaft of the blade so the set screw sits flush? The electric motors we use in RC work like this so you can attach the pinion gear to the motor.

[@BrushQuill]

Interesting. If you add some lines & screw holes up the long edge you could adjust your acrylic rulwr to guide for 45° and 60° angles too. Though you would need to twist the blade too... maybe a point would work too to score the plastic?

[@CutTransformGlue]

I really gotta try that idea!

[@germaN87AC]

Interesting jig. I won't throw away my printer anymore

[@eugeniomarins2936]

Muito bom! E o seu inglês também é show, entendi tudo!

[@CutTransformGlue]

Valeu amigo!

[@georgescg7342]

you re-invented a ruby tile cutter.

[@-MrFozzy-]

Very impressive, sir! You should sell them!

[@filipr8386]

Someday you should make a cnc machine, Henrique; if you explained how to build one, i bet it would be more comprehensible than other tutorials

[@CutTransformGlue]

I really want to make one! thank you so much!

[@paktahn]

if you want it to slide real smooth and dont want the messiness of oil or grease use some graphite on those metal rods you can get powdered graphite in hardware stores for using as a lube for locks or you can just use a pencil i bet you could also use your laser cutter on fast speed to etch a ruler on a piece of acrylic and then fill the etched area with some enamel paint

[@CutTransformGlue]

I'll try that, thank you! (also the etch acrylic + enamel is an amazing idea)

[@abcgefp]

This is the cooooolest

[@CutTransformGlue]

Thankss!

[@repeters1]

Great Tool! Any chance you might want to sell it as a kit for those of us that don't own a 3D printer? Again, great job!

[@CutTransformGlue]

Yeah, I've been thinking about that.. Kust gotta figure out a couple of things first

[@nscaledelights]

@@CutTransformGlueThis is a GREAT suggestion please do it!!!!!!

[@lixoearte6775]

Muito bom 👍👍👍

[@CutTransformGlue]

Obrigado 👍

[@ateliedemaquetes.aereoenav4894]

Adorei. Tem um contato que eu possa falar com vc?

[@CutTransformGlue]

Me manda mensagem no instagram :D

[@LordPadriac]

This was a fun build and good example of iterative design but unless you already have the tools and the skills to design stuff in a software package this is not for you. They sell commercial versions just this size for around a hundred bucks.

[@ModelingSteelinHO]

My fellow scratch builders. I am waiting on some genius to manufacture an AFFORDABLE CNC laser cutter that cuts STYRENE up to 0.40 sheet. Imagine what could be done. Love your build though.

[@CutTransformGlue]

Now that would be the most amazing thing in the world!!! But I hear there's some chemicals on the styrene which make that impossible (toxic fumes and etc)

[@ModelingSteelinHO]

@@CutTransformGlue Toxic fumes wouldn't be a problem with exhaust system. Wonder it it's possible to make a mini waterjet CNC cutter for styrene ? Tinker time.

[@CutTransformGlue]

That's true!

[@pastrafulea]

scratch,scratch,but a lot of dedicate tools....lot of thanks ,but no ,thanks