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Yuri B.
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Saw for Plastic Cable Channels (Ducts)

06/17/2012 7:44 AM

There used to be the tool for sawing (by hand) of the plastic cable channels : you put one inside, set an angle you need (usually 45 degrees) and saw it. Have they become obsolete ? That is only explanation I cannot find one. Then, what do you use instead ?
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Re: saw for plastic cable channels (ducts)

06/17/2012 8:30 AM
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Re: saw for plastic cable channels (ducts)

06/17/2012 10:41 AM

Known also as a miter box (on the other side of the pond).

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Re: saw for plastic cable channels (ducts)

06/17/2012 1:26 PM

Thank you!
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Re: Saw for Plastic Cable Channels (Ducts)

06/17/2012 11:22 PM

When I have a heap of trunking to cut I use a carpenter's (power) drop saw (compound mitre saw) with a fine toothed blade and the angle set as required.

Cutting through the cover and box together the mitres are spot on and the result is "furniture grade".

For small jobs I just tin snips.

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Re: Saw for Plastic Cable Channels (Ducts)

06/18/2012 7:37 AM

About $20 US most hardware stores

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Re: Saw for Plastic Cable Channels (Ducts)

06/19/2012 10:23 AM

HEY!

This is an engineering forum. Good enough is never good enough.

No measurement is ever precise enough.

What he needs is a computer guided Water Jet, or Laser cutter.

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