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sold in hobby shops for cutting expanded polystyrene. Clamp the cutter so that the wire is
horizontal to the table, and put the ball in the hole of a stick tape reel to stop it from moving.
hen adjust the height of the wire so that it comes as close as possible to the center of the ball,
and slide the ball through the wire. Keep your ingers out of the way - that wire is hot! (he clue
is in the name -
hot wire cutter.
) You now have enough half balls to make two games.
Table tennis balls are a standard size of 40 mm, so you need to cut a 40 mm hole in the
middle of the top of the box. You can do this easily with a saw drill. hen you have to ix the
half ball into this hole. What I did was to take a small square of 1 mm thick styrene sheet,
trace a pencil line around the ball and cut out the hole with a scalpel (see Figure 8-10). hen
using model airplane glue, I attached the ball to the sheet, as shown in Figure 8-11.
Figure 8-10:
he half ball
ready to be
glued into the
supporting base.
It is time to paint the box. I decided to make mine a two-tone inish to emphasise the two
player's sides. First give the top and sides of the box a coat of wood primer. hen lightly sand it
down and apply the top coat. I used a water-based enamel paint sold in hobby shops. I bought
two pots, black and white, and used black for the sides and then mixed a portion of black and
white together to make a light grey. I masked of half the top along the middle with painter's
tape and painted the other half grey. I removed the tape while the paint was still wet. When the
