"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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When I installed my central heating, I treated myself to a good
quality wheeled pipe cutter. Slotted into the body of it was a
separate deburrer of a type I'd never seen before, and without
any instructions, it took me a few moments to work out how to
use it, but it's brilliant once you have. I can't see the same
make anywhere on the web, but this one is the same principle:

http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/234-1522


Just ordered the Screwfix equivalent, I'll give it a try.


One nice thing about it is the burr comes off in one piece
(with a bit of practice), which you can capture and prevent
from ending up inside the pipework. I used it for the whole
heating system, water and gas pipes, and the original blade
still works fine (although I had to replace the wheeled
cutter blade near the end of the job).

When practising, be careful so that if the tool slips out of
the end of the pipe, you don't end up jabbing it in your eye.
That looked worrying easy to do by accident.

I was once fitting a brake shoe spring with a pair of needle nose pliers
when they slipped, they went straight up into my face, luckily I wear
glasses because it hit my glasses hard enough to knock them across the drive
and bruised my face. The gouge on my glasses lens was dead centre, I reckon
I would have lost an eye had I been wearing contacts...