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Re: [Shop-talk] cutting exhaust pipe

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] cutting exhaust pipe
From: Wayne <wmc_st@xxiii.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:02:47 -0500
On 12/17/2010 5:39 PM, Eric Murray wrote:
> I have a tailpipe that I need to cut to get out of the car.
> It's stainless, 3" diameter.  I'm putting a rorty exhaust on my Mazdaspeed3.
> I have a sawz-all, an air die grinder and an angle grinder.
> Which is the best tool to use (cutoff wheel in the grinders).

Sounds like a good excuse to buy a plasma cutter.

Or, as others said, saw or air grinder w. cut-off wheel.  Is there no 
reasonable way to get it out without cutting?  It sounds like a 
not-so-old car;  could be worth bucks, or shoot, you might want to put 
it back on someday.

-Wayne
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