Tile Cutter

[tilinga2z]

ike the sigma every 3 or 4 years. He sells very few of them. At £9 a piece I don't think that is bad value, neither do you need different sizes for different materials.
Nice to know that Grumpy I was thinking to replace my master piuma wheel after around 10 months of use, to be honest I was going of what Rubi say to replace around every 1300m or so which if you think about it is not that much, obviously mine still has a lot of life in it. As for the £9 at Kwiksplit that is not the full story when I went to checkout on Kwiksplit with delivery and VAT it turns out at £16.10 which is a rip off on a 9 quid purchase but as you rightly say is a small cost every 3 or 4 years, which you could combine when buying other replacements.:yes:

 

[grumpygrouter]

Grumpy £5.73 for a wheel for a Sigma...see you are saving money right away:regular_smile:

I think I could weather the £3.27 storm over a 3/4 year period. I might be an accountant but lets not go overboard here. LOL.

Grumpy

 

[Fekin]

I did a sort of review when I got my Husqvarna TC670, so I'll quote it below.

After quite a few people had asked me how my new Husqvarna cutter is like to use, I thought I'd do a sort of, my little review of it.
Now I've never used anyother cutter other than my trusty £40 Plasplug, so this isn't a comparrison against a Rubi or anything else.

Start from the top I guess.

Bright orange sturdy carrying case, good balance of weight once loaded with the cutter.
Inside the case theres 6 slots for cutting wheels, and obviously small compartments for the support arm and measure bar, and the cutter comes with a 6mm and 10mm cutting wheels, both standard silver wheels.

The Husqvarna TC 670 has a single arm, for scoring and breaking with the cutting wheel very fast and easy to fit by unscrewing the handle a turn or 2, slotting in the cutting wheel to the depth you require and re-tighten up the handle and has very strong grip of the wheel.

To break the tile once you have scored it you just bring the wheel back a third way down the tile, lift the arm a few inches and pull back a plunger on the handle to lower the breaking arms onto the tile, then press firmly down again to snap it, then release the plunger and the breaker moves back up out of the way.
Over all, a nice easy no fuss way of scoring and breaking.

On the menu today was black polished 6mm porcelain, which the cutting wheel had no problems with what so ever.
All it needs is a good firm stroke across the tile, bring back a third and breaker down and a firm but not hard press of the handle to snap it.

The porcelain tiles are 400 x 400's, and with the side support arm on cutting just an inch of the side of the tile isn't too bad, conversion rate was about 80% of the time, and when it didn't break away the full length of the tile, it only left a small triangle of unbroke off tile, which was dispatched quickly with the wet cutter.

Only problem I had was that for the first few tiles, the paint on the bottom of the breaking arm that touched the tile surface was leaving slight marks as the paint started to come off, but after a while this stopped happening.

Line of sight for your marker is also good, though today on this first ever use of the cutter I was in a very dimly lit garage and tended to use the actual wheel on the mark before scoring to be 100% sure.

So, for it's first test run, I think the Husqvarna did very well on porcelain, though it was only 6mm tiles, but I wasn't having to press that hard as I was scoring.

All in all, for £120 I think it's a great "not breaking the bank" over 600mm cutter.

In a nut shell, brilliant cutter on everything I've thrown at it, and as some say, it's very much like a Rubi 600 whatever, but a lot easier on the wallet

 

[tilinga2z]

Thanks Fekin, I have read your review before, this what what initialy averted my gaze away from the Rubi, great review.