1st Cuts With Rubi Ts-40 Plus

[mma]

I've had the same problem with thin ceramics and sometimes you have to mess about to see what works best. I've even resorted to scoring with the tile cutter and using a hand snapper to break the tiles. Moving the tile to the left has worked before and must just ease the pressure slightly.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Some soft glazes/tiles may need listening too!
With some pressure you will hear the snap - then turn it around and snap from the other end.

 

[GAZ5518]

Try scoring and moving tile away from stop end so that the breaking point is not so far into the tile.. Also with a thinner ceramic go gently gently... Keep practising.. Good luck.

 

[Matt Bott]

Usually I find if the tile breaks like the picture above you have put more pressure than is required it will have snapped just before it broke, touch feel and sound is important some tiles you can apply pressure to the breaker hold it and you can literally here the tile cracking all the way down the score. This is the same when removing a well bedded floor tile I chip the corner out get a chisel under hit it in then listern when you hear a peeling sound wait until it stops and then hit further wait again and the whole tile can pop in one if you force to quickly whole tile breaks same concept here.

One bit of advice if your doing a long cut apply pressure on breaker till you get the cut start to snap then with other hand lean on the edge of the tile up near the breaker this will apply pressure to the tile without forcing the breaker through the face of the tile hope this helps, also if your still struggling hold both sides of the tile at the top and bang the back of the score on a hard object it will snap clean down the score.

 

[Flintstone]

Good old rubi!!
Pull lighter on the breaker bar, when you here the initial breaking noise, remove tile and snap with hands.

 

[LM]

Thread's a year old from his last post, if he's still tiling or viewing this forum he'll have got a sigma by now.

 

[trogre]

Hi Lee Mac. Yes still look on forum. I ended up contacting forum sponsor ProTiler Tools who suggested the breaker was a bit bent and not contacting the tile on both sides. I suspect it was due to previous owner perhaps trying to cut tiles too hard & thick. He had 2 old cutters which would of been used on perhaps porcelain and they were as blunt as hell. Couple with this the bent bar so must of been a lot of pressure being used.
Anyway purchased a new breaker & bar and the trouble went away. Couple this with all the tips forum members gave me all went smoothly.

 

[LM]

Hi Lee Mac. Yes still look on forum. I ended up contacting forum sponsor ProTiler Tools who suggested the breaker was a bit bent and not contacting the tile on both sides. I suspect it was due to previous owner perhaps trying to cut tiles too hard & thick. He had 2 old cutters which would of been used on perhaps porcelain and they were as blunt as hell. Couple with this the bent bar so must of been a lot of pressure being used.
Anyway purchased a new breaker & bar and the trouble went away. Couple this with all the tips forum members gave me all went smoothly.

That's good,I'm glad you got sorted then 🙂