Hi Shane, Any sort of pipe or tube cutter which will cut black pipe will cut copper, aluminium or stainless steel. Copper is very soft so a cutter designed for copper alone probably will not be sufficient for iron. It is all in the cutting wheel of course.
The capacity a cutter will cut is a function of how far the rollers can be retracted from the cutting wheel and the depth of the throat, that is how far from the frame the cutting wheel and the rollers project. There has to be enough depth of throat to allow the rollers to close on one c of the pipe across from the cutter wheel. It is a very long time since I cut any iron pipe but I am pretty sure I used the same cutter as I have been using for well over 30 years I don't remember ever replacing it. It isn't cutting copper wonderfully any more but I continue to use it for those occasional jobs I continue to run into. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Hecker To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] I can thread, but not sure about cutting I'm going to make a long story short. I went to Home Depot a couple days ago. They supposedly had a Rigid pipe cutter which could go up to 2 inches or so and cut through just about anything. Went today and they didn't have it for some reason and the salesperson has no idea what I'm talking about when I mention I saw it earlier. I've done some research on the internet and find that just about everything says "tubing cutter" or "heavy duty tubing cutter". Just a bit confused on the difference between a tubing cutter and a pipe cutter. I have both the black pipe and copper and want to be able to work with both. Shane [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
