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Tubing cutting and pipe recovery are critical maintenance and well intervention operations that help ensure continued drilling and production with reduced downtime, costs, and risks. Tubing cutting is performed with mechanical, explosive, electrical, or chemical cutters depending on specific well conditions and operational objectives.
Pipe cutters and tube cutters are tools designed for similar purposes—to cut through materials—but they are optimized for different types of jobs, based on the characteristics of pipes versus tubes.
Pipe and tube cutters are hand-held tools or machines that use a rotating cutting wheel, blade, or other tool head to separate a long piece of tubular material into two or more parts. Pipe and tube cutters can be manually, electrically, pneumatically, or hydraulically powered.
25 paź 2023 · Industrial pipe cutters play a pivotal role in the metalworking industry, offering efficient and precise methods to cut pipes of varying sizes and materials. In today’s market, there are diverse types of pipe cutters available, each tailored to specific needs and applications.
In plumbing, tube cutters are used to cut copper, brass, PVC, and other types of pipes to precise lengths. This allows for a smoother, more exact installation and helps prevent leaks. For example, plumbers need to cut pipes to fit between walls, around corners or to connect to fixtures.
9 lis 2004 · Tube fabricators use a variety of methods—sawing, lathe cutting, rotary cutting, supported shear cutting, dual-blade shear cutting, and laser cutting—to cut tubing from mill lengths into shorter pieces for use in final fabrication.
