Copper pipe chopping

Gunner Asch on Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:45:23 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Ah, but that is different. After all, this is "rec.craft.metalworking" so of course, doing something the 'long way'

- as long as it involved metal working - is the way to go.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Here is an example of a common hydraulic shear:

scroll down about half-way, to the section "Cutter"

Not the same format as the one I saw at a hamfest, but looks like it would work for the task, too.

Enjoy, DoN.

You don't get it?

There are 50 New Toy points riding on this, sir. Ya gotta think it through. ;)

Larry Jaques on Mon, 07 Apr 2014

New Toy points - and "Applied Scrounge Points" and "I knew I would find a use for this some day" points and, of course "I made it myself!" points, which is the point of the whole exercise.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."