Sorry I've been out of town for a few days. And I don't have the time to list all the things wrong with the place I stayed...
As for cutting pipe, I don't think a tubing cutter is going to make a good enough score in pipe to see it well. A couple quick ideas to help cut straight. Ed said he used 2 hose clamps around the pipe and cut between them. A much better way to have a mark without wrecking a tool. Another way would be to find either a piece of PVC pipe or rubber hose to fit over the pipe you want to cut and clamp it at the place you intend to cut the pipe. Using either of these methods will let you cut for a while and not have to have your fingers near the blade all the time to be sure you are cutting straight. ----- Original Message ----- From: robert moore To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:29 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] I can thread, but not sure about cutting Bob you mentioned using a hack saw. If the pipe is too thick for a tube cutter or a pipe cutter, I wonder if using a pipe or tube cutter to cut a groove as deep as it will go first would be helpful in 2 ways. First you would have less material to cut with the hack saw and second and probably more important is that you would have a perfect line to keep you cutting straight with the hack saw. Don't know about others but I could not cut a pipe straight if my life depended on it without some thing to guide me. Just some thoughts to ponder. I never have tried this so hope it helps. Robert -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Kennedy Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I can thread, but not sure about cutting 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] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> 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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
