TOOL TIME EP 5 - MILWAUKEE M12 PVC SHEAR REVIEW (2470-20) - UNBOXING + ABS DEMO

AHOY MATEYS, wearing your hands out makes you a useless pirate! If you'd like a more affordable option ill link an alternative as well ;)
M12 PIPE SHEARS - www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee...
Kobalt PIPE SHEARS Kit - www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt/50135...
Outro Song:
Doom Style Industrial Metal - Torn Flesh
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

[@jamesdowling9534]

Good vid. I just got one, I’m an electrician in NY and we are at the end of winter and on rigid electrical conduit schedule 40 it’s getting half way through the cut and the tool binds up. It was 35 degrees this morning but it warmed up to about 65 in the afternoon so the pipe wasn’t that cold and any pipe that wasn’t new out of the electrical supply house it would cut properly. So idk I’m gonna return it and get another. But I did not realize abs is thicker then pvc but maybe electric conduit is harder then abs or maybe my shear is defective

[@TOOL_TECHNICAL]

for sure this tool is only for cutting PLASTIC pipes lol. Copper, alumninum etc. just bend and stress the tool out. Id stick to a one handed recip (m18 fuel hackzall is my go to with a good diablo blade) OR a solid bandsaw. I'm sure your shears are fine it's just for plumbing needs. Some people have asked if it can prune trees and im sure thinner limbs may cut but they blunt the blades and stress the motor.

[@TOOL_TECHNICAL]

and yeah ABS sch 40 vs pvc the abs is harder. at any case this m12 shear is much better for plastic because it scores and splits while recip saws and multi tools vibrate and melt the edges from heat causing ugly ends that take time to carve square for your couplers and joints