Take a slice out of preparation time with this tube cutter from Festo. It's a useful and time-saving tool for anyone who needs to regularly cut tubing down to size, such as electricians, plumbers and automation engineers. You can use it on a wide range of different plastic materials, including vinyl, PVC, CPVC and PEX. Simply insert a soft pipe through the opening of the tool, choose where you want the cut and then let the cutting blade get to work.

• Tips the scales at just 21g for easy portability
• Suitable for cutting tubes up to a maximum outer diameter of 8mm

• Mechanical engineering
• HVAC installation
• Agriculture

While they do similar jobs, tube cutters and pipe cutters aren't the same. A tube cutter is specifically designed to cut soft materials including plastics and operates by pushing a blade through the tub. A pipe cutter tackles much harder materials such as metals and works by rotating a blade around the pipe to cut it without compressing it.