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[ATM] Cutting large-diameter PVC



I have acquired, for free, two lengths of 10" PVC
pipe.  One look at them and free may have been too
high a price, but there is enough pipe to make the
tube for my 8" Newtonian, as long as I tie the tubes
together.  That part has been figured out.  However -
(don't ya love this part of the emails?)

The tubes themselves have badly out-of-square ends. 
While I have experience cutting large diameter stuff,
I do not have access to much more than a circular saw,
which does a wonderfully fast job at cutting PVC with
a nice, sharp fine-tooth blade.  While not a smooth
finish, it is fast and clean enough to rasp away.

Is there an easy way to cut this stuff square, so I
don't spend a whole day rasping away at it to get it
to within the 1mm squareness that's good enough for a
telescope?  Remember now, a circular saw is what I'm
going to use.  I'm too lazy to go at it with some sort
of hand saw.

Many thanks,
Transplanted Yankee, Seeker of the Darkness
Kevin

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