About DOMINOX

We are a tool brand with a narrow field: the hand, gas and battery tools that cut pipe, dress its ends and heat its joints.

A welder in a red jacket holding a lit DOMINOX torch on a yellow cylinder — The DM-022 torch head, the tool most buyers know us by.

It started with a pipe cutter

DOMINOX began in 2020 with one product, a ratchet cutter for PVC pipe. The people behind the name had spent years making blades and cutting tools sold under other labels. They knew what failed first: a blade that dulls, a ratchet that slips, a handle that flexes.

The first cutters under our own name fixed those three things in that order. An SK5 blade, a ratchet with a positive stop and a die-cast aluminium handle. Two of those early models are still in the range, and one of them is the cutter most buyers choose.

Then came the flame

Plumbers who bought the cutters asked for a torch. Our answer was the DM-022: a cast handle, a trigger that lights the flame and a button that holds it. It fits the propane and MAP cylinders sold in every hardware store.

It is now our best-known tool, with 2,060 ratings on the DM-022 line alone. Around it grew a family: a regulated torch for work in awkward positions, plain brass heads with no igniter to fail, and wide burners for charcoal and firewood.

Under our own name since: 2020
Tools in the range: 50
Departments: 5
Ratings across the range: 4,778

A repairman kneeling at a dishwasher with DOMINOX screwdrivers and pliers on the floor

How we decide what to make

We add a tool when a job in our field needs one and we can say plainly what it does. Every DOMINOX tool carries a number that matters: the largest pipe a cutter takes, the tube sizes a reamer fits, the heat a torch gives.

If your pipe is 2 inches across, a cutter rated for 1-5/8 is the wrong tool, and we would like you to know before you order. Measure first: a pipe sold as 1-1/2 inch PVC is about 1.9 inches across.

Who uses DOMINOX tools

Many of our buyers are trades: plumbers, HVAC and refrigeration techs, irrigation crews. Many others are owners fixing their own house. Both groups write reviews, and both are blunt.

We read them. The brass torch has buyers who could not keep it lit on a full cylinder. The hot knife has buyers who bent a blade by pushing too hard. Both complaints are fair. The brass head runs best at low flow, and the blade has to melt its way through, not be forced.

Where our tools stop

A torch is not safe in careless hands, and a hand cutter does not replace a saw on every pipe. The ratchet cutters are for plastic. The wheel cutters are for thin-wall metal tube. Cold PVC can crack under a blade.

We take no payment ourselves. You finish the purchase with our retail partner, who handles delivery and returns.