Tips: Quick Tip - Splitting Rubber Tubing

Quick Tip - Splitting Rubber Tubing
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
GearZ Team

Stacey shows you a simple way to get a perfectly straight cut when splitting rubber tubing, no matter how long the piece.

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junebug

love it ! thanks a ton ! great show !

Mar 11, 2013 02:28 am
MacGuyver

Great Tip!
I learned something new today!

Nov 08, 2012 10:46 am
MikeG

Clamp a razor blade in a flaring tool. You can use it for various size of tubing. This is a lot handier than drilling a wood block.

Aug 05, 2012 07:33 am
Planecrazy

Great tip, but I wonder if you couldn't make this even simpler by combining an adjustable hose clamp with the razor blade, using a Vicegrips or even a bench vice to hold the pieces in place while you feed the hose through?

The advantage of the adjustable hose clamp is that you could adjust it to perfectly guide several different sizes of hose for cutting, rather than having to make multiple wooden "triangle" blocks to handle different diameters of hose.

Regards,
Steve

Jul 27, 2012 09:55 am
coolrodder

great tip, i needed some last year and it was a pain to do it , but now with this it's going to be wonderfull and can even replace a grommet.

Dec 29, 2011 07:23 pm

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