tile clip pro

[jimthetiler]

Ever get the day when you measure for a cut tile and it takes more than one try,or you have left your glasses at home and the room is dimly lit.Well help is at hand.
Tile clip pro is on its way with a patent pending but needs some feed back at this time.
If the following attachment goes right you can see what it is.
All the members of this board have my permission to make a home made version
to try it for them selves.I use perspex heated up and bent into shape.

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  tileclip.pdf (83.6 KB)

 

[Stef]

Jim, you have me stumped, I've not got the foggiest how this works.

 

[Sean Kelly]

Have you made one yet Jim?

 

[cam_low]

is this a joke lol !!

 

[swanman]

what the hell is that
what does it do
sorry if i sound rude

 

[Qwerty]

Do you mean a tool like this???





This is the Tilebackmarker, "the patent protected tile measuring tool"

 

[jimthetiler]

the hardy backer device appears over engineered and in the same vein as all the other attempts
to simplify the marking of tiles.This device I wager was not invented by a tiler.

Howether the tile clip pro is invented by ac working tiler and it comes in different sizes and thicknesses at the base so you can choose the sizo of the cut you want to make

 

[jimthetiler]

I have just spent half an hour writing a long post and lost it all.1 more try
usuall methods of marking a tile to be cut is at best guess work.You press one end of a tile against the wall or skirting board or cupboard and mark that tile to whatever gap or space you need.
The tile clips have built in spacers that when slipped on the opposite side of the tile(top left corner then right hand corner)to be marked you no longer have to guess the cut.
1 2 3 cut 1 2 3 cut simples

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

ash tray on a motorbike springs to mind :smilewinkgrin:

 

[swanman]

I'm sorry but call me old fashioned what's wrong with the old ways
I was shown when you are doing a cut turn the tile over Mark both sides leaving a grout line turn the tile over cut it
bobs your uncle fannys your auntie
why make things complicated

 

[jimthetiler]

you can take a horse to water

 

[andyb1]

Think i'll give it a miss.

 

[Ian]

Have you got a prototype? I'm struggling to work out exactly how it works.

 

[CJ]

Have you got a prototype? I'm struggling to work out exactly how it works.

 

[Stef]

I have just spent half an hour writing a long post and lost it all.1 more try
usuall methods of marking a tile to be cut is at best guess work.You press one end of a tile against the wall or skirting board or cupboard and mark that tile to whatever gap or space you need.
The tile clips have built in spacers that when slipped on the opposite side of the tile(top left corner then right hand corner)to be marked you no longer have to guess the cut.
1 2 3 cut 1 2 3 cut simples

There's no guess work when cutting a tile, if I'm using a 3mm spacer then I measure gap front & back that tiles to fit into & take 5mm of off the size,
3mm for spacer 2mm for expansion, simples.