Push comes to shove and I can get a pretty smooth cut with my portable band saw. That is the quickest. Edge is a little ragged, but is easily cleaned up. The pipe cutting tool still does a better cut.
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I've been using a cutoff wheel on a cordless angle grinder. I get much smoother cuts than I used to with a sawsall. If I need more perfect straightness than freehand gets me, then I'll wrap a strip of paper around the pipe and run a wide marker around the edge of the paper. If you lined up the edges of the paper then you'll get a straight guideline to follow. It's still freehand, but if I drift off target I can adjust.
I've seen builders set up a cut station with a big chop saw. I'm not sure what kind of blade they used, but they threw a lot of sparks.
On 1/19/2020 11:46 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
I haven’t run a ton of emt in my life but some.I have a new garage to wire.What is the best way to cut and deburr emt?Normally I use a sawsall with a hack saw blade in it.Never notice what really proficient electricians use.My method leaves me with an angled cut with plenty of rough edges.I am sure there are deburring tools dedicated to emt.I am considering using a tubing cutter but I don’t want the end swaged down to a smaller size that might catch and skin the wire a bit.I guess some kind of tapered reamer could then smooth it out.
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