foam cutter

[gene]

Check out the foam cutter at 40 seconds. I'd love to have one not sure where I would put it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iadcdBPjQNE


gene

[MinUph]

I use my band saw for many foam cuttings. Maybe not that large but they do a great job.

[Mojo]

I think that maybe the biggest foam saw I have ever seen. :)

Chris

[sofadoc]

The actual blade is nothing special. What really makes that set-up ideal, is that the blade is stationary and the table moves. I wish I had the room to rig up something like that.

[brmax]

Now thats a table saw! the blade is pretty fine tooth i bet. A real nice operation there.

[forsailbyowner]

When I visited the woodbridge foam factory in chatenooga I saw a mac daddy foam saw used at the plant called the looper. It took the huge slabs of foam and ran it in a circle with a continuous bandsaw type blade that would cut it to thickness as thin as a few millimeters. Its blade was razor sharp and went through a honer to keep the edge the whole time it was running. It was an interesting tour learning how all the foam comes to be.

[Stitches]

I don't know if bandsaw tables have a mitre slot in them like table saws do.  But if the do you could make a sled that rides in the mitre slots to make it like a moving table

[byhammerandhand]

Most of the ones that I've seen do have a miter gauge slot.

However the limiting factors, IMO, are depth of cut (some have "riser blocks" to raise the top up), and width of cut -- many only have 14" or so to the other side of the saw frame.