A tubing cutter will do just what it says. It will only cut through thin walled tubes like copper or steel lines. Copper for plumbing and the steel lines are more for automotive brakes and fuel lines.
Black pipe or galvanized pipe is much thicker and harder to cut and a tubing cutter will get wrecked trying to do the job. They make a pipe cutter if you want to buy a specialty tool. You can do a decent job with a hack saw though. If you are looking at Home Depot, they carry the Ridgid line and they make some nice tools for plumbing. Maybe you can do a search on their web site. ----- 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]
