Tank Cutters

[Wonkee17]

Hello,

I am doing some research on tank cutters and was wondering if anyone could help me.

Has anyone had experience using a tank cutter before? If so, what have you used them for and how have you used them (i.e with a drill/ carpenters brace etc). For what task do you find tank cutters to be most useful?

Any information at all would be very helpful - thank you in anticipation! :smiley2:

 

[jonnyswamp]

Cutting holes in tanks

 

[AWheating]

just use holesaws myself.

 

[snowhead]

has anyone had experience using a tank cutter before?

yes

if so, what have you used them for and how have you used them (i.e with a drill/ carpenters brace etc).

cutting holes for immersion heaters in copper cylinders, using a carpenters brace

for what task do you find tank cutters to be most useful?

as above.

They probably have a very limited use nowadays and have been superceeded by holesaws used in battery drills.

 

[Phil]

Send the apprentice up in the loft and tell him there's an extra £20 in your wage if you can drill and connect live and have it done before the tank drains down and you have to hold the ballvalve up with one hand.

 

[gassafe]

Heat up a piece of copper tube & push it through...

 

[Best]

Heat up a piece of copper tube & push it through...

... but first look around for Rogue Traders cameras!

 

[gassafe]

... but first look around for Rogue Traders cameras!

Its a good way of doing it, plus you have no little plastic bits to block the fill valves...

 

[TBServices]

Its a good way of doing it, plus you have no little plastic bits to block the fill valves...

I hope this is a joke

 

[Best]

Its a good way of doing it, plus you have no little plastic bits to block the fill valves...

I guess you like your plastic tanks to be nice & hard & crispy? :smile:

 

[Mike Jackson]

Heat up a piece of copper tube & push it through...

I'd suggest you have a look at TB104. Specifically the note at the bottom of page 2.

 

[AWheating]

Heat damage to a plastic tank cus you don't want to by a £5 hole saw......... Tut......tut!

 

[gassafe]

Note 2: In addition, the holes cut in the cistern should not be made using the end of a heated piece of copper pipe to melt a hole through the wall of the cistern; as such a practice is likely to cause the surrounding plastic tank material to over time become brittle. This could result in a failure of the cistern at a latter date.

my bad lol... Mine have been okay so far... The chap who taught me was pretty old school plumber as well!

 

[JeffD]

Heat up a piece of copper tube & push it through...

Good do quote old way the best by the time you've faffed about getting drill kit out jobs done

 

[happyflyer]

Hello,

I am doing some research on tank cutters and was wondering if anyone could help me.

Has anyone had experience using a tank cutter before? If so, what have you used them for and how have you used them (i.e with a drill/ carpenters brace etc). For what task do you find tank cutters to be most useful?

Any information at all would be very helpful - thank you in anticipation! :smiley2:

Wonkee,

Have you ever seen what one looks like ??? I used one for years, but why would you want to know

this is a crap version of one , it had two cutters so you could
make lead washers, I am confused about your question this is in the history books