I need to get together my tool kit and as I'm on a budget I've been looking at buying a second hand cutter.

On my course I used a Rubi TR 600-S so ideally this is the cutter I'm after, but I'm worried that an ebay or other second hand cutter could be worn out and only fit for the bin but I'm having doubts about commiting to spending out 400 quid or more on my first tools as I've only ever hung tiles on my course.

I've been looking down the B&Q shed but their one and only cutter looked not all that but the nippers and other small tools seemed to feel ok and its got me thinking that B&Q with its huge buying power, that their tools cant be total crap or can they??

I also been looking at a Clarke 10 piece kit in machine mart priced at £30, its looks like its very much for the DIY market as the cutter doesn't look all that great thou it does have a carbide wheel but I'm thinking as it comes with nippers, tile saw, tile chipping hammer, trowel and a few other bits that it might be ok as a starting point?
I've also seen a similar Rubi kit that comes with pocket 40 cutter for a good price of under 70 quid (it also has two trowels, a grout float, knee pads and some other bits) and was thinking that its not a bad starter kit plus it has that Rubi quality which cant be a bad thing.

provided I get either a TS 600 or a TR 600 once funds allow I could be up and running to do my bathroom and some small family jobs just to get up to speed.

What to say, if your on a very tight budget buy the best you can at the time, as jobs start coming in and paying, upgrade what you need when you need it, before you know it, you;ll have a proper kit. after all, if all your gonna do is splashbacks in small ceramics etc to start off, why have a TS60 ? if you do get a job that requires a bigger cutter, then it will pay for itself and be a freebie for the rest of it's life.

Good luck, also keep looking on the for sale section, get some great deals at times, I just bought a TX700 the other week

As with Alan, so much variation on sizes and what tiles you will be fixing

Roll up! Roll up! last chance to sell or I will give it away, TS60, hardly used £90, no takers?? Car boot next week £3.90. No funnies please, I know its been replaced by a better one but its a damned good bit of kit.

There you go double d, well worth the money

Originally Posted by diamondtiling

Roll up! Roll up! last chance to sell or I will give it away, TS60, hardly used £90, no takers?? Car boot next week £3.90. No funnies please, I know its been replaced by a better one but its a damned good bit of kit.

i will take it off you hands diamond!!!

i will give you a tenner, and you have to deliver it personally so i can buy you a pint, plus i would love you to meet my labridor, as i am getting the cutter for him!!!!

best wishes....hope you are well!!

Lee..londoner,cockney and tw..

I thought the ts-60 was a pro standard cutter made by rubi the snap on of the tiling world? by the sounds of it your both saying that they arnt all that good?
Dimond im watching some ts-60's on ebay at the mo but I wouldnt mind your cutter if its at the right price, sadly £90 is a bit over my budget.

Originally Posted by double d

I thought the ts-60 was a pro standard cutter made by rubi the snap on of the tiling world? by the sounds of it your both saying that they arnt all that good?
Dimond im watching some ts-60's on ebay at the mo but I wouldnt mind your cutter if its at the right price, sadly £90 is a bit over my budget.

not at all...my everyday cutter is a TS60 PLUS...and its the mutts nutts!
PLEASE NOTE THE "PLUS" the one you want is a TS60 PLUS!!!!!!!! not just a ts60....there is a difference!!

Its spelt Labrador dag, you cockney rhyming geezer, if there is one thing I do not do. it is to spell words incorectljuhg, incorecctlyuji, incorectyul, flippin wrong!! ( Incorrectly) Just to be smug

Originally Posted by diamondtiling

Its spelt Labrador dag, you cockney rhyming geezer, if there is one thing I do not do. it is to spell words incorectljuhg, incorecctlyuji, incorectyul, flippin wrong!! ( Incorrectly) Just to be smug

piont tkean!!!! i mean no off fence!

Originally Posted by double d

I thought the ts-60 was a pro standard cutter made by rubi the snap on of the tiling world? by the sounds of it your both saying that they arnt all that good?
Dimond im watching some ts-60's on ebay at the mo but I wouldnt mind your cutter if its at the right price, sadly £90 is a bit over my budget.

Never mind Lee, he is getting excited, the "snap on" tool for cutting tiles will always be called by its Latin name which is "Rubi" however when you decode the rubi hieroglyphics you will find that they mean "sigma rules"

cant do sigmas personally,
each to thier own...

still buy ya a pint though!!

sigma....paaaa

I'm only thinking Rubi as they where the cutters used on the course run by pts/stc.
I've never seen sigma cutter!

the ts-60 plus has a higher breaking pressure than the normal ts cutters but that's all the difference? all this cutter business is very confusing!

You will over a time that you may use a couple of different sized cutters, I have 4

Originally Posted by double d

I'm only thinking Rubi as they where the cutters used on the course run by pts/stc.
I've never seen sigma cutter!

the ts-60 plus has a higher breaking pressure than the normal ts cutters but that's all the difference? all this cutter business is very confusing!

sigmas are good stuff, i dont own one but heard good things, my rubi is soo good i sleep with it at night to stop anyone stealing it...
you need to check them both out, and may be huscovana..thats not spelt right..and even the big clinker....good reports on them all.

but it really is personal preference at the end of the day!!

best wishes

Lee.

Originally Posted by double d

I'm only thinking Rubi as they where the cutters used on the course run by pts/stc.
I've never seen sigma cutter!

the ts-60 plus has a higher breaking pressure than the normal ts cutters but that's all the difference? all this cutter business is very confusing!

Sigma cutters tend to be used by the more affluent tradesman, only joking only joking!! its all down to personal taste and preference. Each cutter has its good and bad points although I cannot think of a bad sigma point.
I love the auld banter!

i have a:

ts30
ts60 plus
tx700n
dewalt wetsaw
and a shiny new (excellent) ramondi wetsaw.....its a beast, but not that portable!

Husqvarna. that's just me being pedantic Lee.

Expensive Lee

Originally Posted by diamondtiling

Husqvarna. that's just me being pedantic Lee.

dont even try to pretend you did not do a bit of googling....
if you knew that spelling i would eat my hat!!!!
and lick the Labrador.

Originally Posted by whitebeam

Expensive Lee

its a good story soooooo...

was on a hotel job, builder was supposed to order dec tiles..25x40 white with 5 fake grout joins in...if you see...
they were not ordered and all that arrived was plain white tiles,
anyway i said i can make the decs easy, 25 tilers onsite and no work for them (twidle,twidle,) so i say if we buy three machines we can set them up to cut the decs and get a labrador to it, tilers go to work, all good...

so we buy three pikus machines and set them up, at the end of the job there are three machines, i grab em all, my mate takes one, and i have 1 left...i offered it up for £650 inc vat inc. blade on this site...no takers...all gone now but i tell you what, makes the dewalt look like childsplay.

Missed that, bugger

Originally Posted by whitebeam

Missed that, bugger

not many....they cost us from trimline (i think) £1300inc vat each!!!
650 was half price, client happy, builder happy...job done!

Bloody hell, what size tile was it's maximum cut

Originally Posted by whitebeam

Bloody hell, what size tile was it's maximum cut

hehehehe....it can do a 600x600x45mm on the diag..... heheheh

on the diag!!! hehehehe

oh and its 1.5 Horse power......the dewalt is significanly less!!! and i love that machine also!!

spelling is my forte, I so much want to correct so many people on here but I know its best to read Phonetic writing as is.

BIG MACHINE Lee

in my experience a dewalt and a ts60 plus is all you need year on year,
i have not yet had anyone ask me to do 60x60 diag. but if they do me and my shiny new ramondi are ready,willing and able!

Originally Posted by diamondtiling

spelling is my forte, I so much want to correct so many people on here but I know its best to read Phonetic writing as is.

i drink, i type, i try....if there is 1 thing i have learned on this forum,
accecpt peoples inadiquacies! and sppelling mistooks, we alll do it!

Deggers!

phonetic...as in:

alpha, bravo,charlie, delta etc.