test question tube cutter

[key]

how do you use a tube cutter?
A) crank down and go forward once and back twice
B) crank down and go back once and forward twice
C) crank down and go in one direction

[bornriding]

My way is 'c'. Can't think of any reason youd wanna go backwards

[BobbyBJr]

Originally posted by bornriding
My way is 'c'. Can't think of any reason youd wanna go backwards

I always go in one direction too, but it wouldn't suprise me if the correct answer was one of the other answers. Check out the other threads about test questions...lol. By the way, I have two sets of ratcheting cutters that will only go one way, unless you remove them and turn them around.

Bobby

[opsmngr]

Go with the "C"

[fat eddy]

You pull the C around in one direction.Never pushing the the top of the C towards the opening , always dragging top of the C back toward the shaft.

Once again another "test" question hits the board without the correct answer being an option.

Go buy a rigid tubing cutter and read the directions, there you will find the answer, and it will look like mine and not or A B or C,

[Edited by fat eddy on 03-16-2005 at 05:15 PM]

[bornriding]

If you were cutting conduit with a type of tubing cutter, you make a couple of turns one way & then go backwards. But that is to clear the blade of metal shavings that come off during cut.
Soft copper however leaves no shavings & doesn't need to be turned backwards.
Hard copper, as best as I recall, does not either

[sparks]

"C"

There is no point in going backwards and forward again.

[hvacbear]

C

[coolestacman]

c would be the answer, as when you rotate the cutter around the tube (if cutter is held correctly) the adjusting screw will tighten asyou go.

[amickracing]

So... you mean you don't just crank on it and keep going until it pinches ir in half?

I go with C, always letting the cutting wheel get "pulled". Have spun it the other way occasionally, it worked, but the aparent correct way is just the habbit I formed. Wow, I do have a good habbit!

[indian]

In the real world we just use our Linemans pliers.

[Shophound]

Originally posted by key
how do you use a tube cutter?
A) crank down and go forward once and back twice
B) crank down and go back once and forward twice
C) crank down and go in one direction


D) chuck it back into the toolbox in disgust and break out a hacksaw. Use rapid strokes so as many chips as possible can enter the system.

E) break out a monster pair of tin snips and make one quick, snappy cut. Use a pair of needle nose pliers to open up the pipe after the snips pinch it shut.

F) keep bending the copper back and forth until it snaps from metal fatigue. Use needle nose pliers as in (E).

G) If all else fails, get a sharp hatchet and make one swift, clean swipe at the pipe. If you're real good you might get a clean break with no chips and no pinching.

:D

[service guy]

I use my cordless Sawzall with a tube cutting Blade so I guess I go back and forth??

[cxagent]

Originally posted by bornriding
If you were cutting conduit with a type of tubing cutter, you make a couple of turns one way & then go backwards. But that is to clear the blade of metal shavings that come off during cut.
Soft copper however leaves no shavings & doesn't need to be turned backwards.
Hard copper, as best as I recall, does not either

Have you seen metal shavings off your pipe or tubing cutter? I haven't. I thought the reason a *thread* cutting tool was rotated backwards was to break the chips off so the chips didn't get big enough to bind up the tap or die. I don't think pipe or tubing cutter need to be rotated backwards.

[cctrol]

I turn in one direction only, if possible.
My preffered method is to turn so that the rotation of the cutting wheel keeps it's center pivot screw tight.

[mike3]

Do they make 4 wheel tubing cutters. I know with our 4 wheel pipe cutters its back and forth.

[NormChris]

This is one of those test questions that must have been written by someone who could not come up with something more viable.

[bornriding]

Was thinking of the threader, not the cutter
Sorry for incorrect post, ya'll