Judging on my experience as a mechanic and many years with fitting exhaust
systems to cars, you need only one cut with the cut at least one and a half
times the diameter of the smaller tube diameter.
I am now retired and experimenting with antennas, I use a slitting saw in my
vertical mill, makes a beautiful cut!
VK2KCE


"Ed" wrote in message
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: Just received my order of telescoping aluminum tubing rods from Texas
: Towers. Sizes range from 1" OD to smaller and all 6 feet long. I plan
on
: using them as a collapsible verticle on the motor home. Before I start
: hack-sawing away on the ends to cut slots around which I will place my
hose
: clamps, does anyone here have any particular tips or techniques to do
: this? I figure I'd just cut two slots with a hacksaw about 1" or so
deep.
: If there's a better suggestion, I'd like to hear it before wacking away on
: my expensive tubes.
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: Ed