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Hey guys, just used the Milwaukee M12 PVC shear on a drain job. cuts were for 1 1/2″ and 2″ cellular core ABS. Gotta say, under the house in the crawl space, the pvc shear made the job allot easier than the old hackzall. cuts were clean and no burrs on the end. when i got the shop some of the older plumbers were checking it out, nice features were no strain on your elbow like when using the ridgid abs tubing cutters. biggest draw back was that the tool doesn’t handle 3″. Tool is built solid, tossed it around in dirt and dust with no failures yet. All in all, great tool but seems like it would be better suited for new construction and not so much for service and repair.
Gotta love the m12 lineup, I’d love the PVC shear, knarlycarl has one. Be cool to have an m18 sheer for handling the big shtuff.
Jimbo
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Big stuff? It will cut up to 2″. Any bigger that’s what that sawzall is for lol. Wait you don’t have that one. You have to get it. It’s great for cutting more then just pvc.
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Welcome to the forum Mac!! Milwaukee have a lot of great tools for the plumbing trade and stands behind them for 5 years. The pex tool is awesome too.
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Big stuff? It will cut up to 2″. Any bigger that’s what that sawzall is for lol. Wait you don’t have that one. You have to get it. It’s great for cutting more then just pvc.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[emoji41]
Nah I want that tool, still would be cool to have a bigger version though it does such a nice job cutting.
Jimbo
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Ok then it would probably need to be an m18 then. What size? 2″ to 4″ then? Or bigger?
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Ok then it would probably need to be an m18 then. What size? 2″ to 4″ then? Or bigger?John, Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk[emoji848]
Yea any bigger than that would probably be harder to handle
Jimbo
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A larger size would probably work on M12 without slowing it down too much, but it makes more sense to add an M18 model that does bigger sizes than update the M12 model.
I find it pretty strange that the M12 line has a lot of tools the M18 line doesn’t.
What took you so long to get the PVC shears lol. It’s great for both new and service work, I use it whenever possible. You just can’t get too close to the end of a pipe or it will veer off and not cut squarely. If I’m close to the end of a pipe, I’ll grab PVC pliers to hold the pipe if it’s a loose piece, then start the cut a little, and rotate the shears back and forth to kinda score the PVC and help the knife cut through before it completely squishes the pipe
And welcome aboard!
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