Porcelain Continuous Rim Diamond Blade

[White Room]

Anyone tried one of these from ATS and how did you find it.

 

[Stef]

Got one in the grinder just now, very good blade & just as good as a Pro-gres..

 

[Ian]

Got one in the grinder just now, very good blade & just as good as a Pro-gres..

Hows it lasting Stef? Not wearing out too fast?

 

[White Room]

Got one in the grinder just now, very good blade & just as good as a Pro-gres..

Got one of the pro gress but doing some porcel-thin and find it gives me some very minor chipping....

 

[Concrete guy]

Got one of the pro gress but doing some porcel-thin and find it gives me some very minor chipping....

You're not the first person to report chipping in porcel-thin we're interested to see if there is a solution in blade design with this particular material.

We know that a "turbo" design makes the chipping worse, it doesn't seem to matter if it's our turbo blade, the Marcrist CK850 or the montolit DNA. None of them left a particularly acceptable finish.

So continuous rim is a step in the right direction with whoever's design you go for.

Anyhow, all feedback on this is good feedback and I'm wondering if there is something in the way that porcel thin is produced that makes it more prone to minor chipping.

 

[White Room]

You're not the first person to report chipping in porcel-thin we're interested to see if there is a solution in blade design with this particular material.

We know that a "turbo" design makes the chipping worse, it doesn't seem to matter if it's our turbo blade, the Marcrist CK850 or the montolit DNA. None of them left a particularly acceptable finish.

So continuous rim is a step in the right direction with whoever's design you go for.

Anyhow, all feedback on this is good feedback and I'm wondering if there is something in the way that porcel thin is produced that makes it more prone to minor chipping.

Thats why I was looking for a continuous rim to see how it worked out, I'll order one from your site Alan and the Vacuum brazed one for small amounts of smoothing out. [MENTION=37954]ATSDiamondTools[/MENTION]

 

[Concrete guy]

Thats why I was looking for a continuous rim to see how it worked out, I'll order one from your site Alan and the Vacuum brazed one for small amounts of smoothing out. @ATSDiamondTools

Not sure I'd use the VB blade in porcel thin, I have a feeling that may increase chipping. It's more suited to soft friable material like marble, travertine, fibreglass, plastics that sort of thing. But I've been wrong before.

Think of the VB blade as a "filing" action rather than traditional cutting.

 

[White Room]

I'll give the continuous blade a try and let you know how I get on Alan [MENTION=37954]ATSDiamondTools[/MENTION]

 

[Concrete guy]

Email me your details and I'll send you a con rim and VB blade to test at 115mm on Porcel thin. I'm interested how they perform on a grinder in porcel thin.

We've generally only sold the larger sizes for this use on rail saws.

 

[m3fitter]

I still have an ATS blade ( NOT SURE WHICH MODEL ? ) on an old Norton wet cutter, still perfect... unreal... thanks Al ;-)

 

[White Room]

All details sent Alan...

 

[Chalker]

Email me your details and I'll send you a con rim and VB blade to test at 115mm on Porcel thin. I'm interested how they perform on a grinder in porcel thin.

We've generally only sold the larger sizes for this use on rail saws.

hi Allan
gary (garytiler) was using one of your continuous rim blades in a grinder, at the porcelthin training day. I didn't notice much chipping, he was just using a damp sponge to cool.

 

[Concrete guy]

hi Allan
gary (garytiler) was using one of your continuous rim blades in a grinder, at the porcelthin training day. I didn't notice much chipping, he was just using a damp sponge to cool.

That's why I was wondering how it would perform in a grinder, using a sponge might be the difference between it chipping and not.

We had a customer recently trying to find a 250mm blade to cut porcel thin on a big bridge saw, he'd been through half a dozen (including some very expensive blades) and it was still chipping. The only conclusion I could come to was the saw can't have been running straight, in so much as the axle must have been out of true and creating a small vibration or tiny wobble as the blade rotated.

 

[White Room]

hi Allan
gary (garytiler) was using one of your continuous rim blades in a grinder, at the porcelthin training day. I didn't notice much chipping, he was just using a damp sponge to cool.

Ray was doing the same and as like you did'nt notice any chipping....

 

[Chalker]

After using the speed cutter. The only time to use a grinder or wet cutter would be cutting around objects.
For straight, cuts the speed cutter left a flawless finish.

 

[White Room]

After using the speed cutter. The only time to use a grinder or wet cutter would be cutting around objects.
For straight, cuts the speed cutter left a flawless finish.

I'm doing the smallest wet room ever with the 1200x600 porcel thin. jeeeeeeez there's some cutting:yikes:

 

[Chalker]

I'm doing the smallest wet room ever with the 1200x600 porcel thin. jeeeeeeez there's some cutting:yikes:

have you been using the speed cutter.

Or too chicken!! :sofahide:

 

[White Room]

have you been using the speed cutter.

Or too chicken!! :sofahide:

I use an upgraded version now it's brilliant, I've been using the grinder so much because the tiles are across a wall that is only just under the 1200 which has a window as well:yikes:

 

[Chalker]

You will have to tell us what they were like to install when you gave finished.

 

[Spud]

a damp sponge on the blade will make a lot of difference and you can then tidy the cut up with the grinder polishing discs mark should leave a perfect finished edge

 

[Stef]

a damp sponge on the blade will make a lot of difference and you can then tidy the cut up with the grinder polishing discs mark should leave a perfect finished edge

Sorry to go off thread slightly,
I had to use Gary's method of using sponge with grinder today, had blundered with a shower grating on a wet floor & it worked a treat.
I hadn't seen this done till Rays day so cheers for the tip Gary... [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[Concrete guy]

I've never seen this done either, it's a simple and inexpensive solution.

 

[Stef]

I've never seen this done either, it's a simple and inexpensive solution.

It's so simple an idea Alan but what a difference it makes to the cut..

 

[White Room]

It's so simple an idea Alan but what a difference it makes to the cut..

I take that is with a continuous blade Rob... [MENTION=29939]Stef[/MENTION]

 

[Stef]

I take that is with a continuous blade Rob... [MENTION=29939]Stef[/MENTION]

Yeah it was Mark but not with porcel-thin tiles.
I've used this method since being down in London at Rays & it makes a difference with whatever blade you use.
The cuts I done today were using my montolit squadro blade.