The Saturday Morning Plumber’s Quiz: Can You Name These 20 Hardcore Plumbing Tools?

What screw-tightened hand tool is spun around a copper pipe to create a perfectly clean, burr-free cut?

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A Tubing Cutter (or pipe cutter) secures copper tubes between roller wheels and a sharp steel cutter disk. By slowly tightening the handle while spinning the tool around the pipe, it cuts the tube without compressing or bending it.

What screw-tightened hand tool is spun around a copper pipe to create a perfectly clean, burr-free cut?

Pipe/Tubing Cutter

Heavy hacksaw

Snip shears

Metal band saw

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