Using pipe cutter to cut sleeve bearing

Oct 07, 2004 2 Replies

Is this feasible? Material=bronze, ID=18mm, OD=22mm, length=22mm. Need 10mm length.


I think of a bearing as being at least ostensibly a precision kind of thing. I think of things cut with a pipe cutter as being, well, sort of gnawed off. Plumbers carry huge gnarly reamers to quickly deburr the giant burrs left by a pipe cutter.

What's wrong with a hacksaw? Or simply buying them cut to size? If you have a lathe, piece of cake!

Grant

Probably not. At best you'll slightly crush the pipe at one end. Hacksaw + file?

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