On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:00:29 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:29:17 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message


It's also important to follow the manufacturer's recommendation and
use a proper pipe cutter for the plastic and not a hack saw.

You cab use as hacksaw as long as the cut is square and the burrs are
trimmed off with a Stanley knife. No sense in spending £15 to do a few
plastic joints.


You mean as described in

http://www.johnguest.co.uk/makeconnect.asp

and probably every other manufacturer.

Here is what Hepworth said on this ng. This man is using Hep20...

"The inventive can find many ways of achieving a perfectly acceptable clean,
square cut using a variety of tools.
The Hepworth Plumbing Products Team"

I imagine that this would assume a degree of competence.


A "perfectly acceptable clean, square cut" can be obtained by using a
hacksawa dn removing the burr and swarf with fines files/Straley knife.


In their instruction leaflets, and web sites, all the manufacturers do
not recommend the use of a hacksaw but do recommend a proper pipe
cutter. At a cost of about £12, it is a nonsense not to buy one.
It's the cost of about 4 fittings.

Why on earth would anybody want to screw around with hacksaws, making
a mess, having to play around with files and knives to ensure the cut
is square and clean, when the whole thing can be done in a fraction of
a second with the proper and inexpensive tool.?






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..andy

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