Silicone hose length cutting
 

I just bought a 3ft. length of 2.5" Silicone hose, and I need to cut it into pieces. What have you guys used to get a nice clean cut? I was thinking of using either a fine tooth hacksaw, or razor, or a cut-off saw. ???

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I find it amusing that you are bothering to ask this on a web board :p. Honestly... just razor blade it or scissor it or something :p

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No matter how careful you are, if you use any of those, it wont be a clean/staright cut. What I would do is to slip it on a pipe or something and rotate the pipe against a stationary box cutter or similar.

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It is quite hard to nicely cut some so I dont think it is a dumb question to ask.The post above sounds like not a bad idea or use a big stationary cutter.

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Sigh, if your hands are that unsturdy... there is a nice method.

Take a worm gear hoseclamp or tbolt clamp around it, snug it up (don't compress) and use it as a razor blade guide....

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use one of those big ass paper cutters :P

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Nice :y

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Like stated above use a hose clamp and a razor blade. It always works for me.

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the day i got mine, they were giving away pearing knifes at the local menards. it worked good.