RIDGID 29963 35S Stainless Steel Tubing Cutter

I nearly bought one and became hesitant reading the two negative reviews. Found out a mate who's a plumber bought one to do SS pipe in a hospital job. He still had it in the box and dropped it around. I've cut up 5 6m lengths of 300 50.8mm 316SS pipe (19 cuts.
I watched the Rigid YouTube on how to use that said to start with a light score to ensure it is on the same track and straight which is the best advise. If you don't you may get some swarf in the rolled cut which will make the rolling lumpy. Or it will roll a helix onto the pipe. I used an old tooth brush to clean out any swarf and it was then smooth again.
After cutting about 16 cuts I did stuff a blade, I'd say as I over tightened the cutter. It more or less ripped off the edge and embedded it in the rolled cut. I picked out as much of the hardened material I could but could not get it all so used a grinder to complete that cut. I imagined trying to cut over the hardened cutter material left behind it'd just stuff the next blade.
So every next rolled cut I made I used some grease in the groove to ease the cutter and used much less pressure on the cutter. More or less wizzed it around until it got easier and pressure was gone, then only less than a 1/4 turn on knob... seemed to cut much better that way.
Less pressure / turns is better and make sure it's tracking...if cutting hard material wipe a little grease into the rolled cut.
Great tool I've just now bought my own.

I got quoted €13,000 (dollars) for 50 metres (yards) of stainless steel railing kit to surround my swimming pool. And I would still have to install it myself or pay someone. I sourced the raw material all in 6 metre (yard) lengths and bought 66 metres of 42.4mm x 2mm and 240 metres of 12mm x 1mm tubing, for €2,000. Then I got the connectors and elbow joints and support plates and rosettes from a firm in Berlin, plus a few German tools like drill bits and thread tappers for the marine grade stainless steel tube, which the Germans are good at. This cost €800. I still needed more tools like a pipe cutter and after browsing and watching YouTube videos, I converged on a RIDGID 65S. As a professor of particle physics, precision is my motto and I was looking to cut the tube with a tolerance of a fraction of a mm. I also bought a tin of cutting paste, without which nothing. I measured the length of 42.4mm tube to be cut, scratched the tube with the tip of a scalpel blade and then pinged it with an Eclipse centre punch. I dropped the RIDGID cutter wheel onto the punched hole, applied lashings of paste to the cutting wheel and tube and with a slight tension (10 minutes of clock on the ratchet) ran the cutter round once and it gave a perfect track which was maintained as I tightened the screw. I did 10 minutes of clock, 4 turns and added more paste half way through. After 4 minutes, the section dropped off with a satisfactory noise, rather like emptying a tin of salmon and I had a perfect cut. I did 30 cuts so I could get started on the assembly, leaving a dozen for later. I am still on the first cutting wheel and it shows no sign of wear under magnifying glass, compared to unused spare. It’s all down to cutting paste folks. No metal tool should be used to cut metal without cutting paste or oil.

Anything else? Oh yes. When you cut tube with a tube cutter you end up with a lip on the inner diameter. So if you are using tube connectors, linear or 90 degree elbow with a 38mm extension, they will not slide in your cut tube without reaming it out to its original diameter of, in my case, 38mm for a 42.4 x 2mm tube. A RIDGID reamer will cost you more than the tube cutter itself . . . But there are other ways.

My wife, watching me slice the 306 metres of tubing into its requisite lengths was so impressed that she facebooked it and now they all want to help assembling my glittering array of marine grade tubes. I have told them I need an unpaid helper to give the final mirror polish and I will provide the mop.

Does the job well and efficiently, very satisfied.

I got 35S cutter and my first two cuts was very good. I was very impressed with performance and quality of cuts. On my third cut the wheel got dull and I was struggling to cut a SS pipe, because I have to finish the job I just keep turn it and turn it. I think in the end I cut because of friction )))
I was expecting more from cutter.
Thanks