"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On 27 Aug 2005 05:53:45 -0700, wrote:


John Rumm wrote:
wrote:

To the OP. That is bunkum.

No, it's not.


It is bunkum. To the OP, just....

Ignore him. All the manufacturers explicitly say do *not* use a hacksaw.

See my reply to Andy Hall. The biggest manufacturer, Hepworth appear
confused on the point.

Not really. The instructions are completely clear.



Yes you *may* get successful joints using one with care, but on the
occations that you don't you will have no one but yourself to blame.

Well who else are you going to blame if you screw up a pipe end? Take
care and a perfect pipe end can be achieved as Hepworth stated "using
a variety of tools".

They said that the inventive may do that. They didn't say that they
thought it was a good idea.


So why make life difficult for yourself, when even the cheapie Screwfix
vinyl pipe cutter will do the job for under a fiver?

A waste of time and a liability from bitter experience. Either use a
top quality plastic pipe cutter, or a hacksaw, stanley knife and fine
file to trim off.

Don't use poor quality tools, it is not worth it.

I certainly agree with respect to using good quality tools. However,
I've had perfectly good results with a £5 pipe cutter as well as a £15
one. I may be sufficiently inventive to have success with other
things like a mitre saw - who knows. I also follow manufacturers
instructions unless there is a very good reason not to do so. Here
there really isn't.

What would class as a very good reason?

I did an emergency repair at neighbours house to a damaged copper pipe late
one night without access to a full toolbox and kit. I did have some plastic
pipe (Hep) some inserts and a pipe slice. I did not have my plastic pipe
cutters and instead put an insert into the Hep and used the pipe slice to
make the cut into the plastic pipe. The process was a little slow but the
end result was a good square cut. It gave a better cut than any hacksaw or
stanley knife could do.

Adam