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I am looking for a good quality, heavy duty sprue cutter that will cleanly cut through heavy sprue and metal sewing needles.

Please post pics of the cutters, as they would help me in making a choice. Xuron has so many different cutters it's hard to decide which one.

Thanks.

Scott
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You need diagonal cutters or lineman's pliers for a sewing needle. Sprue cutters are too soft. Sewing needless are hard and brittle, so you could also use flat plier jaws and snap the needle. No matter how you cut the needle, hold the needle in the palm of your hand in heavy work gloves lest one or both ends of the needle fly off into oblivion. 

 

I've seen scissors for PE--they look like sprue cutters but have very short bypass blades. Personally, I use a rounded #10 blade. Lay the PE fret down on a hard surface and rock the blade back and forth to cut the PE. Makes it easy to hold the PE part so it doesn't fly off into oblivion.

 

HTH

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dnl

 

 

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Designed for cutting soft wire up to 12 AWG (2mm)

It depends on the pin material. The usual sewing pin or needle will be too tough; I don't think brass pins would be much kinder on these blades.

 

They do list a hard wire cutter, but again, I'd just use diagonal cutters.

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Concur with Paul (and his wonderful video) above.  Sprue cutters for plastic only!

 

Even though the craftsman brand has suffered a long period of quality decline, it is the holiday season, and there is probably a sears close to you in NJ with good discounts!  

 

 

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For plastic sprue cutters, and these are actually pretty tough, I like this set from Home Depot. 14 bucks and you get nice needle-nose pliers, too. You might not want to cut wire with them, but get some wire cutters for that. Even an inexpensive pair will do a good job. 
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Crescent-4-in-Shear-Cutter-Plier-Set-2-Piece-S2KS5N/206872615

crescent-plier-sets-s2ks5n-64_1000.jpg

I also got a few sets of these cheap-o ones from Wish.com, and I think they make cleaner cuts than my Xuron sprue cutters. 

https://www.wish.com/search/wire cuters/product/5a065f7fb43a7e5e11f9d0ad?&source=search

 

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8 hours ago, RedHeadKevin said:

For plastic sprue cutters, and these are actually pretty tough, I like this set from Home Depot. 14 bucks and you get nice needle-nose pliers, too. You might not want to cut wire with them, but get some wire cutters for that. Even an inexpensive pair will do a good job. 
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Crescent-4-in-Shear-Cutter-Plier-Set-2-Piece-S2KS5N/206872615

crescent-plier-sets-s2ks5n-64_1000.jpg

I also got a few sets of these cheap-o ones from Wish.com, and I think they make cleaner cuts than my Xuron sprue cutters. 

https://www.wish.com/search/wire cuters/product/5a065f7fb43a7e5e11f9d0ad?&source=search

 

Are the wish.com ones the model 170’s? Or different ones? I order all sorts of stuff from there, never tools though. 

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