Tube Notcher

[indy4x]

Looking to purchase one, not going to get a massive amount of use but need one for a little project

I can get a Vevor one delivered for £39 or pop down to MM and get a Clarke jobbie for £73

Clarke does look a better design (slightly)

Anyone have any experience of either of these?

https://amzn.eu/d/04Dt4oGY

Clarke CPTN1 Pipe / Tube Notcher (Ø50mm) - Machine Mart

www.machinemart.co.uk

 

[hotponyshoes]

I found the cheap ones have so much slop you always have to tidy the cuts up afterwards.

If you have to tidy the cut afterwards (and you don't have many to do) you may as well just save the money.and do them by hand.

Angle grinder and a half-round file and they dont take long.

Loads of different ways of doing it but I either do it by hand for small volumes or use a dedicated precision machine for larger volumes.
Anything in-between has always seemed like more effort than it's worth.

 

[hotponyshoes]

If you have a 3d printer then a template you can slide over the tube makes the job easy.
Pen mark around it, move the template down, grinding disc, then die grinder/file/sanding drum/whatever down to the pen, then slide the template back up and file to finish

 

[dieselsamurai]

when Ive done various rollcages for stuff never found a notcher that is rigid or last so have for the last 10years used paper templates , i have a really good site but lost the bookmark this one is similar but without compound angle

Tube Pipe Notching Templates - Metric

Calculate print and cut pipe coping templates - Wrap, mark cut and grind to shape - Metric

www.blocklayer.com

found this too

Tube Joint Pattern Generator

just print cut out wrap round tube mark with pen and is almost as quick once youve done a few with an angle grinder

 

[8ob]

I never got on with the hole cutter type notcher, pig of a thing to use if you are on the end of the tube without enough room for the whole cutter. There are some bargains about, I picked up this tube notcher with a load of tooling for a tad over £200

 

[wyn]

I use one similar to the "Amazon" one. They have "bushes" as bearings which soon get sloppy.
I drilled them out and fitted needle roller bearings, it has since done hundreds of notches over a few years.
I have just replaced the threaded clamping rod as i wore it out.

 

[Richiew]

I can vouch for this style of notcher. There are cheaper copies available on Ebay. Vevor do one for 107 quid on their website too.

 

[waddycall]

Do you have a lathe you can abuse? I recently notched some tubes on mine for a luggage rack I was making. I didn’t have the right size mill so bludgeoned my way in with a drill bit. Worked a treat. Admittedly it may have been quicker by hand

 

[RIP]

This is the one I used for my buggy build. Works great. For complex notches I used CAD to generate a paper template which I'd cut with a cheap laser cutter.