Cutting tubing sounds easy, right?
Not when you run SOG with 4 sites per square foot and need thousands of pieces of identical length.
I was going crazy measuring and cutting with a ruler, putting the scissors down in between cuts to reposition the tube. I was outputting somewhere around 350 pieces an hour, without breaks.
So, being the lazy (and cheap) SOB that I am, I decided to take action.
You will need:
Large Level
Pruning Shears (regular scissors get too flimsy, I tried)
Zip ties
Turn level on its side with ruler facing up. Place shears on the inch mark you want to cut at and zip tie it in place to the holes on the side of the level. MAKE SURE YOU ZIPTIE EQUALLY ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SHEARS - if you dont it will pivot and slide around.
Ta-Da:
Beautiful? Nope.
Functional? Absolutely.
I just cut around 3,000 pieces of 7" tubing in an hour. Thats 9 hours of work saved.
Now if I can only figure out an easy way to muscle the tubing into the grommets on my PVC manifold... my thumb is bruised to hell trying.
MMJ
Not when you run SOG with 4 sites per square foot and need thousands of pieces of identical length.
I was going crazy measuring and cutting with a ruler, putting the scissors down in between cuts to reposition the tube. I was outputting somewhere around 350 pieces an hour, without breaks.
So, being the lazy (and cheap) SOB that I am, I decided to take action.
You will need:
Large Level
Pruning Shears (regular scissors get too flimsy, I tried)
Zip ties
Turn level on its side with ruler facing up. Place shears on the inch mark you want to cut at and zip tie it in place to the holes on the side of the level. MAKE SURE YOU ZIPTIE EQUALLY ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SHEARS - if you dont it will pivot and slide around.
Ta-Da:
Beautiful? Nope.
Functional? Absolutely.
I just cut around 3,000 pieces of 7" tubing in an hour. Thats 9 hours of work saved.
Now if I can only figure out an easy way to muscle the tubing into the grommets on my PVC manifold... my thumb is bruised to hell trying.
MMJ
