Cutting Dado trunking lid

AndrewDavie · 10 Aug 2010

What's the best tool for cutting this stuff?

I've had the best success with the main parts by slowly feeding through a table saw, but is there a faster way to chop of pieces of lid?

Maybe some kind of guillotine?

Chri5 · 10 Aug 2010

I use a jig saw.

For MT trunking a pair of tin snips is perfect. With Dado trunking it's thicker and snips would deform / not cut correctly between the thin and thick bits of lid.

Lectrician · 10 Aug 2010

A fine finish TCT bladed chop saw and table for the trunking and the lid.

ColJack · 10 Aug 2010

just a hacksaw...

Lectrician · 10 Aug 2010

ColJack said:
just a hacksaw...

Perhaps for a couple cuts - not if your doing a room or rooms!

BigJon · 10 Aug 2010

If i've got a lot of this stuff to cut I usually use a chop saw with a blade thats suitable for plastic cutting.
Gets it straight as a dye everytime, quick and simple.

Im also lazy btw

1john · 10 Aug 2010

a manual mitre saw, my chopsaw is a bit beastly for trunking lid though but if i had alot to do i would prob get a small £30 chop saw for the task, after all it isnt doing any strenuous work.

crystal ball · 10 Aug 2010

For small/medium jobs i use one of these

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/products.jsp?id=19927&ts=71783

Lectrician · 10 Aug 2010

BigJon said:
If i've got a lot of this stuff to cut I usually use a chop saw with a blade thats suitable for plastic cutting.
Gets it straight as a dye everytime, quick and simple.

Im also lazy btw

Yep, you can't beat it.

It has to be the quickest and cleanest way to do it.

ColJack · 10 Aug 2010

Lectrician said:
ColJack said:

just a hacksaw...

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Perhaps for a couple cuts - not if your doing a room or rooms!

for a year and a half, myself, my mate and the 2 older sparkies we were working for were re-furbishing Worcester Royal Infirmary, most of which entailed changing old wards and the canteen into office space and consulting rooms, all of which had 3 compartment dado trunking in it..

the cuts don't need to be neat or even perfectly straight if you use the right trunking, the stuff we were using ( MK Prestige stuff IIRC ) had joint pieces with covers and pre-made corners etc so every cut was hidden....

there must have been about 2 miles of the stuff

Lectrician · 11 Aug 2010

And you cut it all with a hacksaw? Good god!

I always use clip on covers and pref fab tees.

You still want your mitres to be neat. Thats called pride.

hacksaw leaves a rough edge that you need to quickly run a file oer (or your fingers) to remove the swarf. A chop saw leaves the cut as clean as a factory end.

If you seriously did over 2 miles of the stuff and did not use anything other than a hacksaw then I really do pitty you!

We use Marshall Tufflex EMT20 for the majority of installs.

ColJack · 11 Aug 2010

the corners are pre-made with their own covers so they were always perfect.. we only ever had to make straight cuts and a cheap mitre box from the DIY sheds took care of that..

the "fur" you talk about is easily taken care of with a stanley knife or a scraper.

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