I'm trying to cut 2" pvc square and it's honestly just maddening. I cant do it! I've used a pvc hand saw, a hacksaw, a pvc cutter, NONE give me straight cuts. I don't own a miter saw but do own a circular saw. Any advice here? Thanks!

14" chop saw/abrasive blade will do a beautiful job. A sawzall with a 18 tpi sharp blade will do very nicely too.

Agree, a chop/miter saw is hard to beat. I too, had trouble using hack saws. I got a PVC saw and use it ONLY for PVC. It works better for me. (A tip o'the hat to HJ! )

The trick to a "straight cut" is a saw with a wide blade, NOT a hacksaw. For a square cut, you either need a guide or a good eye.

A chop saw works well, but a blade for general cutting or finish work works fine too. I haven't tried an abrasive blade, but I can imagine the smell.

Besides the fact that it would "melt" its way through the pipe, leaving globs of solidified plastic.

Sometimes the situations dictate the tool needed. When I use a sawzall or a cable saw to cut an existing PVC in ground or behind walls and I wanted to make sure I hit on the mark and it be square, I tighten a hose clamp around the pipe, it acts as a guide and works well for me.

I give up. This is literally the dumbest thing to get stuck on. I'm just gonna buy a miter saw. It's like I have some curse! My whole project is at a standstill because i CANNOT get a few pieces of pipe cut straight. Good grief; I think I'm slow...



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No melt, no globs. But it is a little dusty. As for ABS, I can only imagine that it would glob up.



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to tell the truth, i used to cut balogna at the local supermarket. all the training helped a lot to learn to cut straight.

Me too!....But I found it difficult connecting all those tiny slices of pvc.

I cut swiss cheese on 45 degree angles to maximize the surface area.

I sometimes find that if the cut starts running toward the liquor store, I need to "twist" the saw to make it run back towards the beauty shop.

When I cut bologna at the meat market, I used a slicer.

for a 'couple of cuts' use an old fashioned cross cut wood saw

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I use samauri swords, one handed swing cut and its square.

You are not "left handed" are you?

we held the left handers in reserve for the left hand threads sometimes used in gas work

left/right coupling and left/right nipple = NO UNION REQUIRED

I still have some dies, chrome plated as souveniers

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We just buy a left/right coupling and nipple. In the old days, some power drives would open the chuck when operated in reverse, so they could not cut left hand threads.



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in the REALLY olden times we used 'armstrong' stocks by hand

thank god for electricity and the motor it can operate



yep, I'm just about that old

feel like it anyway

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"Measure Twice & Cut Once" - Retired U.A. Local 1 & 638