Not being a plumber I've always used what was shown to me to cut PVC... a saw of some type or another. It's messy, leaves static shavings everywhere, and sometimes ruins the pipe edge so you have to clean burs (chamfering, which you may want to do anyway).
Better alternative: Ratcheting...
Made a couple simple things out of pvc that I thought I'd share:
Made a feeding ring for auto feeder to work with running a closed top:
Needed a union blank for something:
Hmm, I wonder what this could be?
So I am doing a little project for my tank and need to attach a 6" end cap to a piece of 6" PVC Pipe. For some reason I thought this would be pretty straight forward however once I returned home from Menards I realized the Cap and pipe posess the same internal and external diameters. Do any of...