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.
Wombat 280 said
12:40 AM Jul 18, 2013
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
mr glassies said
09:10 AM Dec 16, 2013
a length of string will do the same to.
dibs
hako said
08:59 PM Dec 16, 2013
mr glassies wrote:
a length of string will do the same to.
dibs
Dibs - can you please explain....sounds interesting
Regards
beiffe said
08:12 AM Dec 18, 2013
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.
Regards
Brian
Santa said
04:32 PM Dec 18, 2013
I'm still waiting to hear how to do the job with a piece of string.
Bryan said
09:29 PM Dec 18, 2013
Santa wrote:
I'm still waiting to hear how to do the job with a piece of string.
Me too
Santa said
11:07 AM Dec 20, 2013
I reckon Hako is stringing us along.
hako said
10:21 PM Dec 20, 2013
Santa wrote:
I reckon Hako is stringing us along.
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'.
03_troopy said
07:50 AM Dec 21, 2013
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.
hako said
09:31 PM Dec 21, 2013
03_troopy wrote:
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????
03_troopy said
01:24 PM Dec 24, 2013
hako wrote:
03_troopy wrote:
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.
Santa said
02:14 PM Dec 24, 2013
hako wrote:
03_troopy wrote:
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.
hako said
03:58 PM Dec 24, 2013
Santa wrote:
hako wrote:
03_troopy wrote:
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
Regards.
Santa said
08:47 PM Dec 24, 2013
hako wrote: asked me if there were 'ram and ewe observers' as well. Same deal as 70mm. Thanks Santa
Regards.
Ha, I like it.
mr glassies said
04:05 PM Dec 25, 2013
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
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.
dibs
Dibs - can you please explain....sounds interesting
Regards
Gives me a good clean cut that is perfectly square.
Regards
Brian
I'm still waiting to hear how to do the job with a piece of string.
Me too
I reckon Hako is stringing us along.
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'.
70mm cable????
Yep, 70mmsq CCA welding cable on industrial welders. The big ones had 90mmsq 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
Regards.
Ha, I like it.
dibs