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Broad Arrow
5 February 2010, 04:11
What cutter do you use in cutting the interior foam of a Pelican hardcase? I am worried if I do it wrong, I will have uneven edges and curve lines. Thanks.

ReconRanger
5 February 2010, 22:04
I used the end of a hot glue gun on my first pelican case, and it actually worked quite well.

Stickman
5 February 2010, 22:13
What cutter do you use in cutting the interior foam of a Pelican hardcase? I am worried if I do it wrong, I will have uneven edges and curve lines. Thanks.




Mine looks like angry beavers attacked it..... [:D]

jeffy
5 February 2010, 23:35
You can buy a hot-wire foam cutter at any craft store but sometimes they don't have enough amps to get hot enough to cuts smoothly. You can get more power out of them by adding more batteries though. [BD]

You can also use a new razor or box cutter but it won't be nearly as fast but you can't get too fancy with your shapes. Hot knife's will work too but they're harder to keep perpendicular when cutting.

Your best bet is to make a hot-wire cutter. There are instructions all over the net.

http://www.instructables.com/tag/?q=foam+cutter&limit%3Atype%3Aid=on&type%3Aid=on&type%3Auser=on&type%3Acomment=on&type%3Agroup=on&type%3AforumTopic=on&type%3AforumTopic=on&sort=none
http://www.hhhh.org/joeboy/resources/hotwire_foam_cutter/hotwire_foam_cutter.html
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=292695&page=1

NOLACOPUSMC
6 February 2010, 00:12
I used an electric knife like to carve a turkey and mine came out almost perfect.

federalist22
6 February 2010, 04:30
Mine looks like angry beavers attacked it..... [:D]

Mine too. I used a razor blade, employing an up-down cutting motion, and it shows, but I have flown Pelican in checked baggage to Colorado and Texas a few times aside from local travel in a car and it works great.

Broad Arrow
6 February 2010, 06:36
Thank you everybody for sharing your ideas. Now I know what to do :)

To Jeffy, thank you for the links especially the one from AR15.com. Its very informative and helpful. I hope I make mine as nice as mfingar's :)

Army Chief
6 February 2010, 07:46
I've had good success in the past using those extendable utility knives that have multiple scores along the blade length, allowing you to snap off the tip 1/4" at a time as needed. I don't do anything to the blade, but because it is designed to be extended from the plastic holder incrementally as the blade gets shorter, it is an easy enough thing to just extend it all of the way when is new/full length, giving you an elongated razor sharp cutting edge that works well on most foam inserts.

AC