Rubi STAR-40-N-Plus Tile Cutter - Advice please

[Stef]

Cheers Bri, your getting into the swing of this Moderator thing, :lol: Well done. :8:

 

[AliGage]

I had the TR-600 for years before and found that perfect for quality porcelain. It struggled every so often if i was cutting a 600 tile, but i found that different style of breaking arm a lot better than the independent breaker on the TS models.
I know i'm going to have to invest in a big rubi at some stage, most people are opting for the porcelain or stone tiles nowadays, so i'll need one.

On another note, i noticed theres a gallery on this forum. Is there any rules to posting pictures of your work, or am i free to just post away?

 

[Gazzer]

Post away mate, thats what its there for.....we love photos....of tiling !

 

[AliGage]

Post away mate, thats what its there for.....we love photos....of tiling !

Cool cool. Just re-newed my hosting account and domain name so once that's processed i'll upload a few of my pictures.

 

[MTiler]

I have a Rubi STAR-40-N-Plus Tile Cutter which I bought for splashbacks and small format tiles, its a dinky little cutter. I use a Rubi TX700 for 600mm x 600mm porc. Have you considered a Montolit? Whatever you decide to get a 700 size cutter seems to be better for 600mm tiles.

 

[danmasey]

I have a rubi star and it won't touch porcelain. It will scribe it fine but dosnt have the breaking power at all.

 

[Mike Mike]

Im with Mike on that, the ts or ts+ will not cut a decent porcelain tile.

We have both & we couldnt cut 600x600 polished porcelain tiles last week.

I just put a thread up last week about a new cutter, some good advice from the lads, worth a read through.

I use a TR400S for small tiles and a TX900N for large ones. I had a TS60Plus and had the same problem that you describe. HOWEVER, I looked at the Rubi site and read some small print that advised to score the tile 3 or 4 times for hard porcelain. I followed this advice and it cut even 15mm thick porcelain no problem, whereas scoring it once caused no ends of chipped edges etc.

I wouldn't get another TS though, think it is a crap design personally.