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Examining different flush cutters

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By Emre Ölmez
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One day I realized I was using the flush cutters came with my first 3D printer (Ender 3) a lot, it was one of the most used tools in my bench. Of course I lost it shortly after I realized its value. Then I bought a very cheap Plato Model 170, or maybe it came with another printer I bought, I dont really remember, but it is priced $1.5 right now. Then I wanted to “test” it, which means simply taking a photo of a copper wire cut by it, which I repeated with other cutter I got along the years.

Plato Model 170-2 flush cutter copper wire cut

Then I bought a Rolson 20540 Snip Cutter. I bought it thinking it would be vastly better than my Plato cutters, I was so so wrong. It was useless.

Rolson flush cutter copper wire cut

I wanted to buy a nice one after the Rolson fiasco, so I bought Xuron from amazon.us before personal imports got banned in here. I am really happy with it.

xuron flush cutter copper wire cut

And this is from the cutter of Engineer PZ-58, not really comparable, but I was curious.

pz-58 copper wire cut

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