How to cut
3 Abs Pipe
Best Way To Cut And Glue Abs Pipe - How To Glue Abs
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in this video we're going to show you
guys the proper way how to cut and glue
abs let's get to it
Carsten and I'm clay and we are the
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the Google question of the day you want
to know what was your first behind a
cordless power tool
yeah thanks Clayton let us know in the
comments below mine was the Walt what
was yours plate actually I think it was
master craft and I absolutely hated the
drill okay
Oh quite fortunately you got one of
those duel pits with us from Wade yeah
yeah I thought it was good the master
and then I brought it out where my
friendship and yeah alright guys so like
we say in this video we're gonna be
teaching you how to cut and glue ABS I'm
just going to quickly show you the some
of the tools that we'll use every day I
personally use a sawzall so it's Clayton
but we're not going to show you how to
do that because we don't want you
cutting your fingers off so in this case
the first one that you usually use to
cut a yes it's a hacksaw then to glue it
you got some ABS glue we we make sure
that we don't fill it full especially
we're to do like finishing if you're
installing like a kitchen sink or doing
something with that's finishing and not
in a dirty rough end stage if you happen
to spill your glue pot you don't want it
pouring on your finished floor or your
counter inside whatever so just don't
put too much glue in there and always
always close the live duct tape measure
we're gonna have a coupling and a piece
of pipe just to show you how to glue
we're gonna cut it to nice short piece
because sometimes you only have short
pieces we'll teach you how to stabilize
it properly and get a nice straight
clean cut and then clean
purrs after it's a paper towel to clean
to join something looks nice
good oh this little guy this is the
cleanest way to do it there's actually
another one here I'd like to show you
two there's two so there's this one get
the racket cut one of my favorites for
finishing perfectly clean cut then this
one was like the old school when I used
to use all the time for finishing it
does nice and then we'll we'll show you
how to do that with people now the
reason why we recommend a hacksaw is
because a hacksaw is a fraction of the
price of the ratchet cutter yeah so this
is also a multi-tool can be used for
lots of different things we don't only
use it for ABS as other things like we
cut metal with it or whatever other
things you need to cut it these are
pretty particular and they're very
expensive I think they're like 160 bucks
or something like that so not exactly
the most practical for a homeowner tech
person but if you are a guru or a actual
apprentice or a plumber this is a very
good tool to have same thing with this
this can also there's another plate here
gonna EBS bleed and then a copper plate
so this is like a two and one type of
thing - tape measure good for everything
all right guys so before you actually
start cutting with your hacksaw one of
the most important things that I find a
lot of people don't do is have a big
blade facing the right way
so you've teeth you want them facing
forward away from you so that when you
do cut you get a more more strong cut
with the push and then when you're
pulling back it's just kind of gliding
back and then when you push them forward
it's actually making the cut so that's
how you want to make sure you put your
blade on teeth facing forward okay so
now we're gonna get into the do's and
the don'ts of how to cut the ABS pipe
for the hacks off so some of the don'ts
first things first you want to make sure
your fingers are out of harm's way you
don't want to cut your fingers off so
keep them kind of tight like that
another big dome is kind
here really hard to cut like this I
watch a lot of people kind of cutting
like this or whatever and there's no
snow stability it's not strong it's not
the best way to do it so what we like to
do is make sure it's super close to the
body sometimes depends on the situation
but I usually grab the pipe and I'll put
it between my legs so I'll put it
between my legs and then my hand will be
tight to here and now I have a strong
grip so then I can actually start
reading so then when you're pushing you
don't go superfast you want to just kind
of like play through the works not bad
I've seen better but it's still good so
then after that you've missed a little
very clean done all right guys so we
just showed you how to do it standing up
it's the safest way to do it if you're
not super comfortable doing it this way
I don't recommend doing it but if you
feel like you have confidence and you've
cut lots of play this is how I do it
when I'm working on like a kitchen sink
and I have the Olmec tools around me I
just grab things like cut we only bring
in short pieces of pipe into the house
we don't bring in long one so it's it's
a little bit harder to cut short ones
but you know when you've been doing it
for a long time this is kind of like
just the way we do to speed things up to
make the job go submitted so what I do
have a short piece and I just need like
a short piece under a kitchen sink like
a 3-inch piece
I'll put it solid on my leg get my hand
not too too close to the blade within
maybe let's just say an inch or so and
then all I'll just start it
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and what you're probably thinking is
he's gonna cut his leg off kind of
partially way through and the more you
push down on it when it's cut like this
you're gonna bind and it's gonna be hard
to cut so now what I'm kind of most of
the way through I'm gonna lift it off my
my other leg and just finished a little
more and the beauty particle abs is it
braves super simple that's the way to do
it when you're sitting down soon how's
it get up get down get up get down to
cut piece of play
I guess you're not comfortable with
doing it this way I do recommend just
standing up it feels more comfortable
for you okay so we're gonna quickly show
you how to use these two special big
tools what everybody's gonna have of the
curve they're awesome for us to use so
first thing I'll show you actually is
how do to to measure and get ready to
cut a piece of pipe
I say you're under this thing and you're
measuring a piece and you're like oh I
need four inches of plate take a tape
measure put you there I use my thumb so
instead of marking it a lot of people
will take a pencil or a marker or
whatever it is they'll mark it this is
just quicker everything is about
efficiency for us so this is how we do
it so I'll put my thumb there mark it on
the floor tell my mark so I'll start
with the round pipe cutter so you open
it up so if it's like that you just
press the button drop it this is
supposed to have a spring but it doesn't
so then all I'll line up my my blade
with my thumb my mark just ever so don't
reef on this that's how you end up
tracking and running off the the pipe
and I'll explain that a little bit more
also it's if you go too tight you start
breaking plates so just kind of tighten
it a little bit and then I'll just do
like kind of one revolution of a loose
loosely tighten revolution and then I'm
not sure if you can see it but there's a
there's a line there you want to make
sure that it's actually all the way
around before you start tightening and
going
too hard because it sometimes they run
off and then you have to restart from
the beginning so now I'll give it a bit
of a crank tighten this a bit do a
couple turns tighten it again a couple
turns tighten it again kind of just do
that and tell you it comes off so next
one is this guy probably one of my
favorite tools the ratchet super easy so
again I'll just I need my four inch
piece of pipe mark and minuter grab this
nice and slowly so you don't cut your
thumb off get it to where your mark is
pinch it and in this case that's it
definitely my favorite tool not exactly
the most practical for a do-it-yourself
type of person but if you are an
apprentice plumber or a journeyman
plumber if you're in the trade these are
really nice to have okay so one thing I
actually forgot to mention about those
goes the ratchet tool and the pipe
cutter is it leaves a doesn't leave
first so right here you can see I'm not
shaving see in the camera but it's a
nice clean cut so for us having less of
a mess to clean up is very important so
when we cut it with a ratchet cutter or
a wheel cutter we don't have a bunch of
birds falling on the clip on the floor
for us to vacuum up or sweep up or
whatever it's just it just time
efficiency for us so we're gonna get
into gluing this plate down and then
open up my my blue pot get it ready what
I do is I
it's a way to do it I'm left-handed so
I'll put the glue on this side I like to
make sure there's not like if you have
too much dripping that's gonna drip on
your floor so what I do is kind of clean
it off kind of like a paint brush just
like that let it and then I'll put it on
my pipe not you don't want to put it
like three inches of glue we're in a
finishing stage you wanted to just have
just enough glue so just do like a kind
of a half inch strip of glue on the edge
of the pipe then I'll grab my fitting
into the inside to the inside make sure
you get it all the way around on the
inside and same thing on the pipe
make sure there's glue evenly around the
whole thing glues cheap leaks are
expensive so then we'll grab the pipe
we'll shove it in we'll give it like a
corner twist then we'll hold it for a
second or two sometimes when you let go
the pipe starts pushing out one thing I
found is that depends on temperature so
it doesn't matter the colder weather
maybe it'll push out or whatever but so
now that now it's nice and stiff from
there put that down for a quick second
in this case the pipes already probably
in the air glued so you don't have to
put it down but then what we do is
usually grab a rag and just clean it off
so that it just looks nice it's not
something you have to do this is just
something we do so that when people look
at our work it looks nice and clean
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