LARGE PVC PIPE CUTTER (IMPROVED BLADE)

It was good and working as intended

I received my PVC cutter today and immediately put it to use in repairing some PVC plumbing for my pool pump. It works really well and has no problem cutting through 1 1/2" Sch. 40 PVC. It's made from nicely finished, sturdy metal and the blade is razor sharp. 5 stars from me on this. I practiced using it on some scrap pipe before I began the real work and have a couple of tips to pass along. First, don't get in a hurry. If you go cranking down on a cut, there's a chance you will crack at least some of the pipe in doing so (even at a balmy 78 degrees at my home). Go slowly, take your time and it will slice through the PVC easily. Second, when you have begun your cut and the blade is barely into the PVC, hold the cutter in place and spin it around the circumference of the pipe as far as you can while trying to keep a straight line all the way around. This will establish a small starter cut around the pipe that weakens it slightly in that area so that if the pipe does crack during the cut, it will likely crack along that small starter cut instead of at whatever point happens to be weakest in the pipe at the time.

Like the pipe cutter and would get 5 stars but the pin kept falling out. Replaced with a bolt and nut and now no issues.

This is an AWESOME tool!! If you've ever worked with PVC pipe, no more cutting with a saw! No more burred or uneven ends! I did a DIY project to make a swim platform for the pool (see photo) this made it so easy. Straight, even cuts in no time at all. Even cutting PVC at one inch was not a problem.

This thing cuts 1 and 1.5 schedule 40 pretty effortlessly. It’s easy to make a nice straight cut with no burrs or cracks. The blade is fully replaceable so I expect to have this thing for some time.

I have used this cutter least a dozen times on 2" PVC and it has yet to cut at a right angle to the pipe. There is a lot of play in the cutting blade that allows the it to drift off center when about 1/8 of the way through. Once the cut is off, there's no correcting it. I have tried using the tool in a few different ways with no improvement in accuracy. The cut is clean, there are no burrs to clean up afterwards but what good is it when the result isn't a square cut?

They work surprisingly well, I was able to cut 2” electrical PVC with no problem. Good quality, good price.

I bought this because I needed a a pipe cutter for 2 inch Schedule 40 PVC pipe and I wanted a blade that was beveled on both sides (thinking that would help make square cuts. Unfortunately, the blade is not flat and the bevel is not ground symmetrically. The combination puts the center of the blade off to one side and it’s impossible to make a square cut. The extra rim around the outside edge of the jaws makes it difficult to check if the jaws are square. I suspect they’re not. I’ll have to flatten and fix the bevel of the blade to make this thing usable. I wish I had bought a higher quality tool.