I've recently replaced the kitchen sink mixer tap and this operation required me to make several cuts to 12mm semi rigid plastic hose - the type normally used in later model vans. Google said not to use a hacksaw but use a special hose cutter to ensure cuts were straight and clean. I checked these special hose cutters out and figured they were simply garden secateurs, so that's what I used. No problems.
Electrical conduit cutters will do the same job or even the small thumb drive copper pipe cutters that will cut up to 3/4 pipe with a couple of circuits of the pipe Both methos give a nice clean cut
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I use a small copper tube cutter to make a good deep ring around the hose and then cut inthat groove with a stanley knife.
Gives me a good clean cut that is perfectly square.
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Brian
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It was dibs/mr glassies wot said it......thinking about it I suppose you could wrap some string around a hose, saturate it in metho, light and wait till it melts the hose and pull apart 'smartly'.
or wrap the string around and pull it back and forth to saw through it using the heat caused by friction? I use battery cable cutters usually. Incidentally, the good old fashioned solid steel secateurs make pretty decent battery cable cutters too. I have used them to cut 70mm cable with ease.
or wrap the string around and pull it back and forth to saw through it using the heat caused by friction? I use battery cable cutters usually. Incidentally, the good old fashioned solid steel secateurs make pretty decent battery cable cutters too. I have used them to cut 70mm cable with ease.
or wrap the string around and pull it back and forth to saw through it using the heat caused by friction? I use battery cable cutters usually. Incidentally, the good old fashioned solid steel secateurs make pretty decent battery cable cutters too. I have used them to cut 70mm cable with ease.
70mm cable????
Yep, 70mmsq CCA welding cable on industrial welders. The big ones had 90mmsq cable.
or wrap the string around and pull it back and forth to saw through it using the heat caused by friction? I use battery cable cutters usually. Incidentally, the good old fashioned solid steel secateurs make pretty decent battery cable cutters too. I have used them to cut 70mm cable with ease.
70mm cable????
That's 70 mm2 (square mm) hako a little under 11mm in diameter, less than half an inch, not a big ask for a decent pair of secateurs.
or wrap the string around and pull it back and forth to saw through it using the heat caused by friction? I use battery cable cutters usually. Incidentally, the good old fashioned solid steel secateurs make pretty decent battery cable cutters too. I have used them to cut 70mm cable with ease.
70mm cable????
That's 70 mm2 (square mm) hako a little under 11mm in diameter, less than half an inch, not a big ask for a decent pair of secateurs.
Now I savvy - different speak! .....70mm makes me think it's 70mm across or just under 3". I also thought '70mm steel cable'!!
My employ was a "Weather Observer"....one time someone asked me what I did when I was applying for a loan - he wrote down "Wether Observer" and then asked me if there were 'ram and ewe observers' as well. Same deal as 70mm. Thanks Santa
as for the string yes as suggested above put some builders string around the plastic pipe and pull it back and fort but you need have enough to be able to wind it onto 1 hand or a stick as the friction will break the string . i have cut 100 mm hd electrical pipe doing this
