plastic conduit cutters

[paul wild]

Hi guys and girls,
Im now in the market for some new plastic conduit cutters any reccomendations please ? :bulb2:

 

[Adam W]

Not really, your more likely to squash the cut ends at the same time!! lol!!

It depends how you cut it.

 

[Robert Turnbull]

You'll be able to cut it with a conduit cutter without it shattering as well.

Not really, your more likely to squash the cut ends at the same time!! lol!!

a spin round the tube before you squeeze sorts this

Only the cheapest of plastic conduit shatters.

 

[Engineer54]

a spin round the tube before you squeeze sorts this

Only the cheapest of plastic conduit shatters.

Really!!! They must have changed the fundemetal characteristics of plastic in very cold conditions then!! lol!!

Try bending a plastic conduit without warming, or cutting a plastic conduit in such conditions!! From my experience on this forum, most here would be using the cheapest conduit locally available to them, for domestic installations!!!

 

[Adam W]

My point was if you've got the facilities to warm it up to bend it you can warm it up to cut it.

 

[Robert Turnbull]

I was talking about cutting not bending

A good hand job does the trick before a bend. Never seen anyone resort to hair dryers etc..

 

[Adam W]

I was talking about cutting not bending

Nobody said you were. E54 said if the tube is cold it'll shatter if you try to cut it with a bladed cutter. I suggested you could warm it up to cut it the same way you would warm it up to bend it, meaning it won't shatter when you cut it.

 

[ipf]

I was talking about cutting not bending

A good hand job does the trick before a bend. Never seen anyone resort to hair dryers etc..

Might do a bit for rigidity, I suppose. A bit dangerous for motorists approaching a bend though, don't you think

 

[tomspark0]

Who ever though plastic conduit cutters could be such a popular topic..

Junior hacksaw all the way for me, although i can see they would use full in a carpeted area most my work is on building sites.

 

[Rockingit]

Can't beat a hacksaw for speed if the crumbs don't matter, but I do have this teeny tiny size pipe cutter (about 32mm ish for a 20mm tube) which is brilliant for tight spaces. Found at a plumbing merchants years ago and not seen since.

 

[Thomas123]

Junior Hacksaw.... plastic conduit cutters were a solution for a problem that never existed well unless your incapable of cutting straight in the first place :wink_smile:

But there is no mess with a conduit cutter, have you ever tried to vacuum up The plastic from carpet lol. It also leaves a perfectly smooth finish. So no time wasted cleaning up or de buring

 

[the pict]

Moving on is difficult for some people, pipe cutters are fast clean and pricise, a hacksaw is slow messy and hanging off a ladder not very precise, but then again some people think fire is the work of demons
Pict

 

[Engineer54]

Moving on is difficult for some people, pipe cutters are fast clean and pricise, a hacksaw is slow messy and hanging off a ladder not very precise, but then again some people think fire is the work of demons
Pict

No-ones saying these cutters aren't any good, just don't try using them in very cold conditions, on just as cold plastic conduit ....especially when hanging off a ladder!! lol!!

 

[High Tower]

I wouldn't be putting conduit up in cold conditions, because.........well because it's cold lol

 

[High Tower]

In all seriousness in a attempt to over engineer a problem that's no big deal, I constructed a coffin out of 1/2 birch ply, it's 10" across, 10" deep and 2.4m long. One end is open , the other is open with a 45• slope top to bottom.

In the sloped end I put a 2kw fan heater on its lowest setting and the other end I can shove a whole pack of PVC conduit into it.

It's a pain to store and I only ever use it on bigger conduit jobs. But it does mean when we are putting up tube, we have a readily available feed of pre warmed PVC ready to cut and ready to bend.

 

[Engineer54]

In all seriousness in a attempt to over engineer a problem that's no big deal, I constructed a coffin out of 1/2 birch ply, it's 10" across, 10" deep and 2.4m long. One end is open , the other is open with a 45• slope top to bottom.

In the sloped end I put a 2kw fan heater on its lowest setting and the other end I can shove a whole pack of PVC conduit into it.

It's a pain to store and I only ever use it on bigger conduit jobs. But it does mean when we are putting up tube, we have a readily available feed of pre warmed PVC ready to cut and ready to bend.

Now that's very similar to fabrications a contractor used on one of the projects i was on. They fabricated the heating box out of AC ducting. Both the plumbers and the electricians had they're own versions....

EDIT,

That project was the new British Embassy in Poland, long before liberation. -2O/-30C during the winters there!! The main building was actually built twice, the security people came over and did electronic sweeps after a device was uncovered during some alterations. the place was literary riddled with the things, so many, they knocked the lot down..lol!! The local contractor got thrown off the project and replaced with a British contractor, with no local hire allowed, which is where i came in. Never had to work under such draconian security measures before or since.