well welcome back to the Steve Brown show today we're gonna have a little bit of fun and we're
going to be cutting up some EMT pipe or otherwise known as conduit comes in ten-foot Lakes and I
have three lengths here on the ground I've got one in the bench and I have to cut it into two
foot lengths so these five pieces have to be cut up now I don't know what you use to cut the pipe
with but today I'm going to show you what I cut the pipe with and what I found out on the Internet
apparently what to cut the pipe with now I'm not too sure we'll go take a look okay so right here
I got some of the tools we're going to do the cuts with first off they say okay you can cut
it with a hacksaw okay have fun with that and they say you can use a tubing cutter now I never
tried a two-man cutter I have used ax off when I don't have any power tools never tried to coop
and cutter we're going to cut that now of course this is a tubing cutter for the EMT conduit this
is just a regular tubing cutter like you would get for your plumbing supply store we're going
to try not okay I have used s in the past too I don't like it it makes lots of dust and I don't
like it and my weapon of choice there we go now you can use the cordless this is the m12 from
Milwaukee or you can just use a plug-in sawzall reciprocating saw whatever you want to call it
I'm going to show you what I got set up here let's get to it well here we are here with the
setup and on my workbench here I have a you can see I got like a little dowel stuck in
there just to hold the pipe up and for use that I've been following the channel for a long time
that's my new vice I broke the one I'll put the camp I took the old one here stuck a new one in
nice little vise and as we go along here I got another piece of dowel stuck in the front of my
workbench and that keeps it level and then it comes over here to my vise tightened in there
and as you can see right there I got a nice little line mark and you go along and I have
it marked off all the way along so I'm going to cut five pieces under that ten-foot pipe
in 4 inches each let's get to it let's see how it's the best way to cut this pipe because I've
never tried the tubing cutter not too sure if you have either let me know in the comments here we
go okay so let's try this first of all and just a regular tubing cutter and it's got a it's got
a real sharp I'll show you it's got a real sharp blade on it there and we'll just line it up and
we'll give her a go and see how this cut now this is quite a bit thicker than what you would get for
like regular copper pipe but they're saying it cuts it good and I'm going okay you know that's
the best part about YouTube is you know you can find out different things now some people
on YouTube have said you only cut partial way through I mean you can kind of snap it not kind
of stuff and other people have said no I just cut it all the way through and we're going to see it
seems to be doing okay I'll tell you it's hard on the hands having to tighten that up a lot and
it's getting there I guess but I don't know yeah it's cutting in but you know for the
skilled trades people up there they have the proper cutters for all this kind of stuff and
of course your average do-it-yourselfer and homeowner he doesn't have all that stuff and
how many times is he going to go and cut some of this stuff and of course I'm not using it
to put electrical wires in or anything like that and guys I'm saying this is just a joke
come on there's no way I'm going to become all kinds of stuff like that so let's see what they
say that you can just snap it it'll come off no I ain't going nowhere this idea told fail
okay so let's try the sawzall now I know I have cut some into it here but not too much
now that's my preferred choice of cutting it I don't know what youse guys use I've been doing
this for a while and all I do is I just run it across you know the grinder and just take the
burr off the outside edge and that's it okay so I tried the cutoff wheel that works great until
one of these deals this works great in a pinch no problem this cuts through that no problem you know
like a regular hacksaw no problem this here total fail you have to actually get the proper tool and
a lot of times if you don't have the proper tools you're going to struggle like this this is a total
fail this doesn't work and this idea of going partway through and just snapping it now I'm not
buying that kind of stuff sawzall is the only way I've been doing it all these years I like using
the sawzall yeah you know like I'll show you the end here like of course it's kind of bird up and
everything else skill trades people I don't know what they do and I'd be interesting to find out
what you cut your EMT conduit pipe with okay guys thanks for joining it in I just side show you how
to cut the pipe and I'm going to show you in the future where I use this pipe for so haven't seen
this channel before welcome to subscribe come back again guys let's have some more fun bye now