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Alison

Just done a floor using porcelin tiles, which I found very difficult to cut. I was using A RUBI TS 40 PLUS but that was breaking the tiles half way down and my wet cutter plusplug mastertiler was having a hard day getting through them. Is this normal with porcelin :mad2:
 
Did you use a porcelain cutting wheel in your rubi? porcelain is notoriosly tough to cut. I use rubi tx700n which cuts porcelain beautifully
 
A porcelain cutting wheel, a pocerlain cutting wheel !! no I did not know that there were different wheels, I have just been using the 10g wheel that came with the cutter. I can not thank you enough as I have another job using porcelain tiles. Right off now to get a cutter. Thanks again
Alison
 
for porcelain it it better to have a movable breaker on your cutter and after you score snap it with the breaker about a 1/4 of the way down the tile
 
maybe your not scribing the tile hard anough if it keeps breaking half way down
 
If you live near Croydon, pop into Boydens, they are selling the Genesis 600mm flat bed breaker at the moment for £70.00. I used it today on 12mm thick 350x350 porcelain, cut like butter, my Rubi TS50 plus couldn't handle them, and kept leaving a splinter where the breaker cuts. The Genesis has the block breaker on it. And I recon, for spending that money, rather than £200 plus on a Rubi TX range, it was worth £70.00.
 
My TS 60 struggled with porcelain until I replaced the separator (the bit that comes from underneath) then PING...good as any cutter made....Gaz
 
sorry folks just cannot agree with you on this, i have got at least 4 rubi cutters gathering a lot of dust in my garage, they dont come close to sigma, the italians are famous for their tiling works, why dont you buy the rolls royce of italian tile cutters, the rubi is a slow piece of kit, push, pull and then break? i would have cut two on a sigma by then
 
sorry folks just cannot agree with you on this, i have got at least 4 rubi cutters gathering a lot of dust in my garage, they dont come close to sigma, the italians are famous for their tiling works, why dont you buy the rolls royce of italian tile cutters, the rubi is a slow piece of kit, push, pull and then break? i would have cut two on a sigma by then

Ditto Montolit.

Grumpy
 

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