i find it much easier to use a hacksaw....btw iam not a plumber.
i do a little DIY around my home & wondered why plumbers use the pipe cutters...thanks
Copper is easily malleable...that means it can be bent slightly out of shape easily. And to be able to get the very BEST seal from your copper pipe to whatever fixture you are adhering to the cut end, it needs to be true-to-round.
A pipe cutter gives you the cut where you need it, leaving the pipe in pristine round shape, because it cuts from the outside of the pipe in, equally around. When you cut with a hacksaw, you do not get a true and level cut, you take the chance (in fact you can not help BUT) of bending the pipe out of true, and you are left with dangerous burrs that then need to be sanded off with grit cloth.
Why are you resisting the pipe cutter so much...they are not that expensive? And when they give a superior job that gives you a finished surface good to go every time, then what is the problem?
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