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 is listed for.

That number is on the page before the photographs. 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. Our size finder exists for that reason: you give it a diameter and it names the tools that take it.

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. You will find those notes on the tool pages, next to the praise.

What we will not tell you

We will not tell you a torch is safe in any hands or that a hand cutter replaces a saw on every pipe. Heat and blades need care, and each page says where the tool stops.

We also take no payment ourselves. When you press an orange button you finish the purchase with our retail partner, who handles delivery and returns.