Pipe or tube cutter for hand drills

A tube cutter attachment for a portable hand drill having a drill spindle, said attachment comprising a right angular drive unit including means for clamping said unit to the hand drill and having an output shaft extending at right angles to the axis of the hand drill spindle, a tubing cutter blade secured to said output shaft and rotating therewith in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the output shaft, a slide plate fixedly secured to said right angular drive unit immediately rearwardly of the tubing cutter blade and having a pair of spaced parallel straight edges, and an integral guide and guard means for said slide plate, said integral guide and guard means including cutter blade guard and a work rest means, said integral guide and guard means being of plate-like formation and having side opposing grooves receiving said straight edges guidingly and having an L-shaped slot opening through one side edge to receive tubing, there being a bottom tubing rest bar on the bottom of the integral guide and guard means defining the bottom edge of said slot and adapted to engage a solid surface, said cutter blade guard being disposed immediately forwardly of said cutter blade to guard the same in all adjusted positions of the cutter blade except in the area defined by said slot, and spring return means disposed between said integral means and said unit for biasing said unit away from said rest bar.