Re: Hot knife for HA conduit ...

["Simon Coates" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've forgotton the number of times I've used an old screwdriver with
the tip heated up on a gas flame as a soldering iron :o)
Using a pipe of copper pipe would work - you'd just have to make sure it
wasn't too hot or you you'd end up with a sticky black mess and toxic fumes
- ie. a baby's first dump!

Regards

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hunter
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: 19 September 2007 21:22
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Hot knife for HA conduit ...


>heat up a foot long bit of copper pipe ...

like it ... 'always like coming at the problem from a quite different
angle ... there may be something in it, too ...

Chris

On 19 Sep 2007, at 20:17, Phil Harris wrote:

>> Sorry again - the mains' was just my sense of humour ...
>
> What you have to understand is some people really *ARE* that stupid
> that
> they would do something like that ... I've had emails in the past
> at one
> place where I used to work where I have wanted to reply with "I
> refuse to
> answer your query on the grounds that if I do I fear you may just be
> incompetent enough to kill yourself..." but haven't.
>
>> but the problem
>> is how to cut neat channels for conduit in polystyrene walls
>> quickly &
>> cleanly (most of our walls being polystyrene, and not yet
>> plastered) ...
>
> Dunno - heat up a foot long bit of copper pipe and melt channels
> into it?
>
> Phil





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