Copper & Plastic plumbing - freely mixing and matching?

Hepworth say..

"The inventive can find many ways of achieving a perfectly acceptable clean, square cut using a variety of tools."

The above clearly says that a specialist pipe cutter tool need not be used. Can you understand that? Nah don't reply, you can't.

You're right - it isn't worth it. One can generally reason with children and those where the elevator doesn't go to the top floor, but this would be a special case even for the saintly.

To quote the psychiatrist in Fawlty Towers:

"There's enough material here for an entire conference,"

Good. You are learning at last.

In message , IMM writes

No democracy only works when there's a real difference between the options

In message , Andy Hall writes

Fat chance of that he'd have to learn to spell and get his grammar correct, unless he snipped all the words from every article

In message , IMM writes

So just tell us what it says about using a hacksaw ...

Maxie, it says a secialist tool need not be used.

Maxie, how is Dim Lin?

Did you mean *socialist* tool?

I think that you've come close to reality if so.....

In message , IMM writes

What does it SPECIFICALLY say about hacksaws ?

In message , IMM writes

I don't keep track of your family

Now Maxie. I know you want to hide the existence of Dim Lin the luscious far eastern lovely; the Oriental enchantress.

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If you say so.

Indeed. It is probably intended to mean that careful and skilled use of a Stanley knife, or tin snips might get a good result, they having specifically excluded hacksaws previously.

Christian.

There's only one tool in this thread.

Christian.

Cutting the pipe is err, er, er cutting the pipe. It is how you finish it that matters.

And that isn't a specialist pipe cutter.

Absolutely. Cut roughly to length with a hacksaw then make the accurate cut with the correct tool. A win win situation as you would say. You've justified the use of a hacksaw.

Since you've obviously never worked with plastic pipe, buy some and the cutter. Do a proper cut. Then try and replicate that cut using hacksaw, sharp knife, file, sandpaper etc. Or even your nailfile and dressmaking scissors, since you seem to prefer anything but the correct tools.

You could even try a Rotozip since you seem to think it the answer to everything. Perhaps that's why they went out of business?

Yet again, the one person on the group who claims to be a pro and all others amateurs wants to avoid buying the appropriate tool for the job.

Which is the true sign of a penny pinching amateur. And worse, bodger.