Hardline acrylic tube cutting

[woppy101]

After my first attempt at tube cutting didn’t go so well(couldn’t get it straight for the life of me) I decided to buy a mini circular saw, **** me it make it so much easier to work with acrylic and made hardlineing my system a breeze

this is the saw I bought

 

[pastymuncher]

Ohhhh, a new gadget. That looks cool, how much was it and where can I buy one please?

 

[woppy101]

Ohhhh, a new gadget. That looks cool, how much was it and where can I buy one please?

It was £45 off the bay mate

 

[MikeTimbers]

Ohhhh, a new gadget. That looks cool, how much was it and where can I buy one please?

I guess the nights are pretty long up there?

 

[pastymuncher]

It was £45 off the bay mate

Found them, many thanks.

You can never have too many tools.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

wont one of these do the job?
10 quid or less

 

[woppy101]

wont one of these do the job?
10 quid or less

I did ask that question in another thread, apparently it doesn’t work very well on acrylic

 

[Gavster]

wont one of these do the job?
10 quid or less

They don`t work with acylic, I just used a hacksaw blade then trimmed them down with a Primochil tool.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Used them on copper pipe and plastic pipe
Thought they would work on acrylic
Maybe the user overtightened
And tried to do it too quickly
Or acrylic is just too brittle maybe

 

[Fatpizza]

wont one of these do the job?
10 quid or less

Nope. You'll get half way through and then the acrylic will shatter. Small hacksaw, a bit of sandpaper and then a chamfer tool from EK/XSPC/Bitspower etc.

 

[Gavster]

Used them on copper pipe and plastic pipe
Thought they would work on acrylic
Maybe the user overtightened
And tried to do it too quickly
Or acrylic is just too brittle maybe

The acrylic is just too brittle for one of those, I`ve even shattered one with my Primochil deburring tool after getting a bit too carried away.

 

[im4gine3]

as others mentioned yep.. acrylic is too brittle to use one of those tools.. only way is hacksaw or a rfb drillbit or in this case a mini saw. Dremel will work too but i've had hit and miss in terms of smoothness with that

 

[Jay85]

Hacksaw and deburring tool, i've always used this and never had an issue tbh. Just gotta learn to saw straight, it is finnicky but definitely doable.