Cutting PVC pipe

Canuker

Canuker

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Im not sure if this should go in the ski gabber or non ski gabber seeing as im making a rail for skiing but the question isnt entierly skiing related.

Anyway, i have two 7ft pieces of pvc ( 4" in diameter ) and i need to take about 6" of both because they have cracks running until thos points. My question is, how should i go about cutting the pieces. Id use a hand saw but i have a bad habit of having my cuts start to veer off at an angle ( i cant even cut a damn bagel straight, seriously) and seeing that im going to be wanting to put these pieces flush together (end to end) having anything but a straight cut would ruin things.

I also have a circular saw but using that to cut a round object looks like it may be troublesome.

Any tips, suggestions?

thanks.
 
I would use the circular saw, just because it will get you a straighter cut. And if the cut is angled just sand it down with some sandpaper.
 
a band saw would probably do the job. you might even be able to score it kind of deep with the hand saw and then whack it on the ground...
 
Use a hacksaw. and in order to make a straight cut if that is what you desire take masking tape and wrap the pipe.
 
you could go the super-extreme-gnarly-professional way about it, and use a pipe cutter. The kind that clamps on to the pipe, and you spin it around, tighten, spin, tighten, spin, tighten, etc.

Or you could go ahead and hacksaw.
 
Or you could use the worlds largest online skiing resource methinks.
If you wrap masking tape around where you want it to be cut to keep it straight and clamp down the pipe to keep it from wiggling around you should be just fine.
 
or you could say dumb things on advice threads..... but i'd use a band saw personally but if you don't have the resources this seems like a viable bit of advice
 
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