[Jewelry making - Article 00542] - Re: [Orchid] perfect Tube measuring and holding tool

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>  tool that allows you to measure and hold the tube for cutting? 

    christine - the easiest method is with a wood dowel, a divider, and
    a $2 small pipe cutter from a hardware store. the dowel should fit
    into the tube without forcing. the pipe cutter cuts tubing down to 4
    mm or less. 

    put dowel in tube, use the divider to mark off each measurement with
    a scratch. 

    unscrew the cutter's wheel enough to fit the tube & dowel onto the
    bottom rollers. 

    line up the first scratch with the cutting wheel & slowly tighten
    the knob until it barely touches the tube. 

    rotate the tube on the dowel until the wheel cuts a line all around
    the tube. 

    slowly continue to tighten the wheel & rotate the tube until the
    wheel has cut off a section. leave cut of tube sections on dowel
    until all sections are cut. (the dowel keeps the tube in round
    shape, prevents denting, enables even short tubes to be cut by
    acting as an extension to grip and rotate)  

    continue along the tube to the next scratch - do i need to repeat
    any steps people?   *the ends of each section will be slightly
    indented from the pressure needed to cut through the tube so simply
    tap a metal something or other that's the correct diameter into tube
    to make it back to the original diameter. 

    this technique produces uniform size sections of tube with perfect
    edges - the sections can even be polished on the dowel if needed.
    remove any sticky section by cutting or sawing dowel next to one
    edge of 'stickee' and gently pulling - if that doesn't free, it
    drill a large hole into middle of dowel end & gently pull. a regular
    size pipe cutter can be bought for larger diameter tube sections. 

ive
people, soap operas cannot replace firsthand experience!

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