Cutting Porcel-Thin with 3 Different cutters

[White Room]

Had 2 blades delivered from ATS and tried them out on Porcel-Thin as my Montolit Pro-Gres seemed chip more than it should, centre picture shows the Pro-gres disc, this was a quick test. The blades used for 2 cuts, the one on the left was dry the cut on the right hand side was with a damp sponge.

The pictures correspond to the first pic of which blade was used for each cut from left to right.

I know where I'll be going for discs to cut the porcel-thin from now on, ATS.

From the first pic blades were as follows from left to right

Vacuum Brazed Blade ATS
Montolit Pro-Gres
Porcelain Continuous Diamond Blade ATS

 

[Ian]

I'll be needing a new grinder blade soon, looks like I'll be trying out the ats one

 

[Tony73]

Yeh, I also need to get some stuf from ATS. Made list , last night

 

[Concrete guy]

Thanks for posting this Mark.

I'm really surprised how little chipping there is from the Vacuum Brazed blade. We usually sell this to masons for delicate marbles as it cuts without much breakout (or boat yards for cutting fibreglass), but I'd never thought of running it in Porcelain. What was the speed like? I can imagine it would be slower than a traditional metal bond.

The con rim blade we now stock from 110mm right up to 300mm it really is proving to be a versatile product.

I sent one to Derek from Sigma this week. He has a customer with a 3000mm x 1000mm porcelain tile which is a sandwich construction. 3mm porcelain, 1mm fibreglass, 3mm porcelain. They can't seem to find anything to cut it so they're giving one of these blades a shot.

I told him to try the wet sponge trick that Gary has been demonstrating.

 

[White Room]

Thanks for posting this Mark.

I'm really surprised how little chipping there is from the Vacuum Brazed blade. We usually sell this to masons for delicate marbles as it cuts without much breakout (or boat yards for cutting fibreglass), but I'd never thought of running it in Porcelain. What was the speed like? I can imagine it would be slower than a traditional metal bond.

The con rim blade we now stock from 110mm right up to 300mm it really is proving to be a versatile product.

I sent one to Derek from Sigma this week. He has a customer with a 3000mm x 1000mm porcelain tile which is a sandwich construction. 3mm porcelain, 1mm fibreglass, 3mm porcelain. They can't seem to find anything to cut it so they're giving one of these blades a shot.

I told him to try the wet sponge trick that Gary has been demonstrating.

The grinder I used was a Bocsh with 11000 rpm with all the blades, to be honest the vacuum brazed caught me by surprise as well...and cuts really fast.

I did'nt think there was alot between the the 2 blades I used of yours Allen, both great cutters and will be using them in future with any Porcel-Thin.

 

[Concrete guy]

The grinder I used was a Bocsh with 11000 rpm with all the blades, to be honest the vacuum brazed caught me by surprise as well...and cuts really fast.

I did'nt think there was alot between the the 2 blades I used of yours Allen, both great cutters and will be using them in future with any Porcel-Thin.

There's a price differential. The VB Blade really will cut pretty much anything, it's a great product to have in your toolbox to solve problems. I imagine porcelain would shorten it's life though. Unlike the con rim blade which would wear gradually, the VB blade would simply stop cutting after a certain amount of use.

 

[White Room]

Fair point and noted

 

[Concrete guy]

Yeh, I also need to get some stuf from ATS. Made list , last night

Tony, you'd probably find the VB blade useful on products like Emperador/Marron or even some of the nice Marinace type stones that can be problematic to cut.

 

[Tony73]

Tony, you'd probably find the VB blade useful on products like Emperador/Marron or even some of the nice Marinace type stones that can be problematic to cut.

I would like one and some more stuff

 

[TheNamek]

I know this is an old thread but I thought of this whenI made some cuts on thin porcelain (although not Porcel-Thin specifically) today. Was expecting it to chip badly but was pleasantly surprised. Cut on Rubi DU200L-BL with ATS continuous porcelain blade. Went real slow (you gotta do most things real slow with this machine ) - about 5mm/s.

Tiles are now a discontinued line at B&Q -not my first choice but where else can you get thin porcelain on a Saturday afternoon?!