Do I get chips with that ?

[Filip]

I am an occasional DIYer and am tempted to buy a high quality blade as I have another job at home coming up but its just that quote from pros on here "some tiles do just chip whatever you do" puts me off shelling out.
Perhaps a 115mm quality blade for my angle grinder and that way it would be cheaper than my bigger wet bench but which one would people recommend.
Also a diamond rubbing/ polishing block has been mentioned, is this a hand thing or one that fits an angle grinder.

 

[One Day]

Ok, i'll try and explain this as clearly as possible:
To get chip free on a glazed ceramic/porcelain - score a line (using your rail cutter) exactly where you want the cut.
Now using a grinder and decent blade, cut 1mm away from the score line and with the blade going in at a slight angle, so you're effectively cutting underneath the score line.
Once the cut is made, you can easily and safely whizz away the body of the tile, right up to your score line, without chipping the glaze.

 

[Filip]

Ok, i'll try and explain this as clearly as possible:
To get chip free on a glazed ceramic/porcelain - score a line (using your rail cutter) exactly where you want the cut.
Now using a grinder and decent blade, cut 1mm away from the score line and with the blade going in at a slight angle, so you're effectively cutting underneath the score line.
Once the cut is made, you can easily and safely right up to your score line, without chipping the glaze.

Yep that is what said I have tried and it didn't help - with the caveat of a £10 blade on a wet bench BUT I did not do it at an angle cutting under the score line - is that just so you do not have to take off the full thickness to the line when finishing (whizing.)
and when you say "whizz away the body of the tile," with what am I whizing. and can you point me in the right direction of a decent blade for my angle grinder please.

 

[Dave Mitchell]

Rubi viper from Topps in a 115 mm Milwaukee cordless it's brilliant no chips great on envelope cuts on wet floors !!

 

[Italy]

All the blades with this kind of diamond design, are good. The blade thickness must not exceed 1, 2mm. You'll see it solves the problem. Price, from £13 to £50, only changes the life of the blade.

 

[Italy]

Other solution if it is ceramic, leave the tile for a few minutes in the water, then make the cut.

 

[Simon Dale]

Tried Rubi Dave didn't like them, probably bought wrong one Ill look at that nekton time I'm in shittyd

 

[Filip]

Rubi viper from Topps in a 115 mm Milwaukee cordless it's brilliant no chips great on envelope cuts on wet floors !!

All the blades with this kind of diamond design, are good. The blade thickness must not exceed 1, 2mm. You'll see it solves the problem. Price, from £13 to £50, only changes the life of the blade.
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Ahh I see thanks chaps, googled the Rubi and it has that pattern also thats great for me that the price only affects the the blade life gives me a chance to buy cheap and use for my one off jobs.

 

[Filip]

Other solution if it is ceramic, leave the tile for a few minutes in the water, then make the cut.

I can get away with ceramic because I dont get such bad chips and I can cut to the waste side of the line and then sand down to the line.
Tried sanding down a porcelain but nothing in my DIY tool arsenal would touch it

 

[Dave Mitchell]

Fine carburundom stone from Topps will sort that