{"id":4205,"date":"2010-02-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-22T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T00:26:43","slug":"klein-tools-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/klein-tools-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Klein Tools Cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This review is in response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/source-wanted-1\/\">Source Wanted post<\/a> Garry Shirts submitted seeking a simple and reliable PVC pipe cutter to cut schedule 40 pipe. Although I admire the elegant simplicity of Garry&#8217;s tool, which lacks moving parts, I believe the Klein PVC cutter offers a couple of advantages.<\/p>\n<p>I was introduced to this tool when I hired a friend who&#8217;s a professional landscaper to install a sprinkler system on my three-acre property. I was amazed at how quickly and efficiently the Klein tool was able to cut 3\/4 inch PVC pipe as well as flexible 3\/8-inch sprinkler pipe. The end cuts were clean, burr-free and square, which is helpful when gluing sections of pipe and fitting sprinkler heads. This tool was in constant use, and when it wasn&#8217;t in his hands it was light and small enough to be placed in his back pocket. The spring that opens the jaws and the ratcheting mechanism allow for easy one-handed operation. My friend also had an older, simpler model that I used that didn&#8217;t have the spring to open the jaws or the ratcheting mechanism that this Klein Tools model has. That older model wasn&#8217;t as efficient and required me at times to set down my work and use two hands to open the jaws.<\/p>\n<p>My friend said this tool&#8217;s only drawback was that his crew often loses them as they are working in trenches with a lot of loose dirt around. At least they&#8217;re relatively inexpensive to replace. A safety orange-colored model might be an improvement. I liked this tool so much I bought my own and use it to cut just about anything that will fit in its jaws.                                                 <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap &#038; efficient PVC cutter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1449],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9263,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/9263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}