What's a good value in a tube notcher?

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I’m not interested in the bottom end Amazon/Hobo Freight tier. My minimum requirements are the cutting axis centered on the clamp without shimming, bearings that aren’t going to beat themselves to death, and vise or bench mountable.

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Thanks for that. It looks like there are several different interesting designs in that general price range. These guys are local, so that’s probably what I’ll end up going with.

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Baileigh TN250 used it for years absolute animal

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Thanks for the feedback. That was also high on my list, but I ended up going with the Eastwood Pro notcher since they were blowing them out at $250. It seems pretty adequate for my limited needs, orders of magnitude more solid than the department store/amazon trash. The lack of vertical adjustment gave me pause, but it seems well-centered on the vise. There’s not a convenient way to confirm the accuracy of the angle marks, but this thing will pretty much live at 90 degrees which was easy to check. There’s a tiny bit of run out in the bearing/shaft interface that didn’t appear to affect the quality or accuracy of a test cut.