On 6/6/2017 10:26 PM, Jon Anderson wrote:
On 7/06/2017 12:03 AM, Leon Fisk wrote:

Have you poked around at Banggood? Unless you get hit with some sort of
duty tax you can get Harbor Freight kind of cheapo stuff there. Usually
free shipping out of China. They have a few regular squares but not a
wide base model. The reviews suck (on the squares), say they are out of
align but depending on what you want it for it might not matter.
I didn't bother shopping around, but I don't mind paying for quality.
And as I've mentioned more than once, anything of real quality here is
$$$. I only buy cheap import stuff when there's no anticipated long term
use. As in, likely just use once.
btw, duty kicks in at a grand right now, though there is some talk about
applying it to all overseas purchases...


Jon

The way I learned to draw line around a tube is to wrap a regular
8-1/2" x 11" paper around the pipe, align the edges and tape it. Then
draw your pencil line on the edge of the paper. For bigger tube just
tape more pieces of paper together, Aligned.
Used it a lot when I needed a square edge on 3", 4" and 6" thinwall
aluminum tube.
Mikek