Square Cuts on Tubing
Gary SimpsonCreating square cuts on round tubing with hand tools can be challenging. Metal fabricator Gary Simpson demonstrates the process of laying out straight and square lines on round tubing and how to cut them.
When working on your car, you know, sometimes you need to make a straight or square cut on a piece of tubing. This could be a bit of a challenge. Unlike, you know, a piece of flat stock, you can just run a straightedge across it. But on tubing, you know, it's easy to, if you're not dropping it into a bandsaw or something that's just gonna chop it off, you know, it's easy to accidentally get the cut just a little bit baloney-sliced. And that affects the quality of the project you're working on.
Way to get around that is to cut like a two-inch piece of paper and simply wrap that around the tubing and when the edges meet up or match up, then you know that's a straight cut all the way across and you can just take a Sharpie or a pen, something to mark the metal with and you've got your line to make a straight cut.
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