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    Rotating head copper tubing cutter - GIF

    Rotating head copper tubing cutter.




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    Copper pipe press tool- GIF
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    Ratcheting tubing bender - GIF
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    No thanks, I'll stick with my ridgid 29963 cutter At least it won't ever have a dead battery. and I can cut stainless with it

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    It's only a hundred bucks, fits in a wall cavity (hand held can never do that), I know how to plug in a battery charger, I just ordered mine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob_3000 View Post
    It's only a hundred bucks, fits in a wall cavity (hand held can never do that), I know how to plug in a battery charger, I just ordered mine.
    I'll give you that, plus I can see where a tradesman doing new construction would benefit in the labor savings on a daily basis especially if it had a built in debur and/or swedging attachment, but that might be self defeating from the added bulk. For someone like me who rarely does copper plastic or aluminum not so much.
    I mostly do stainless hydraulic tubing and Milwaukee may offer cutter wheels for stainless I haven't checked.
    For the odd times when I have to do wall cavity work I have an old one of these
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    Mine though is about 30 years old and it will fit in my pocket
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    It's all very well cutting pipe in a wall cavity, but then you have to get in there to join it to something else.

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    https://www.bes.co.uk/kopex-pipeslic...ter-15mm-7763/ and add a motor?

    I have mini 1/8" through to 6" conventional cutters like the Ridgid Frank S pictures above, though I mainly use a Swagelok one for s/s tube work.



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