Rubi ts60 plus breaker problems - Tile Advice

[casioman]

Hi, can anyone help here? I have Rubi ts60 that is breaking tiles around the breaker area on whole tile cuts only. This machine is new to me but second hand and seemed to work fine on test. I am new to tiling so I'm not sure if this is an equipment failure or user error? The tiles were 400 x 250 ceramic 9mm thick

 

[Alan.P]

Sounds like a scoring problem possibly, are you sure your scoring effectively from end to end ?

 

[casioman]

Ahh, I think you might have it . the breaks where focused around the breaker and at the very end of the tile...which would follow what you have said. I will pay more attention to my scoring and see how I get on. Thanks

 

[Alan.P]

You don't have to score too heavy with your tiles, just a nice consistent score end to end, see how it goes and let us know if your still having problems.

 

[casioman]

Thanks I will bear this in mind . One other thing that you could advise me on . when wall tiling , what is the best way to fit the last tile at floor level when you have floor boards? I the main issues being unevenness and movement ?

 

[DHTiling]

Should have bought a Sigma cutter... :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Alan.P]

Curing the movement IE screwing down the floorboards 'should' beat both problems, then just mark each cut on each tile, if it's going to be a huge difference then depending on floor finish you could cut them all to the same size, looks neater but as I said, floor finish, what are you having ?

 

[casioman]

hi the floor is going to be stained as the rest of the house has old oak floor boards so it would look out of character to tile. Thanks for the tips.

 

[casioman]

Better tools don't make up for lack of skill...I've got a long way to go before I'm good enough to own a sigma :hurray:

 

[Alan.P]

hi the floor is going to be stained as the rest of the house has old oak floor boards so it would look out of character to tile. Thanks for the tips.

It's going to look nasty if you can't get the bottom row of tiles somewhere near the same cut, see what happens once you've screwed down the floorboards.

 

[Spud]

i made the misatake of bringing a ts 60 to a glazed porcelain job on saturday it wouldnt cut the tiles and they chipped when I scribed them and just shattered when i tried to snap them after scoring ,i ended up having to wet cut everything lucky I had a wet cutter with me. ts 60 only good for ceramics in my honest opinion

 

[stephenoneill]

you need a monty 2nd week using my new 63 and life is peachy

 

[prceramics]

use the 8mm wheel on porcelain

 

[Alan.P]

The tiles were 400 x 250 ceramic 9mm thick

ts 60 only good for ceramics in my honest opinion

That's good, he's cutting 400x250 ceramics mate lol, and each to their own, I've used the TS60 on loads of 600x600 porc with no problems ?

use the 8mm wheel on porcelain

Pleased it's not just me that skim reads

 

[Datom]

TS60 will cut a lot of porcelain like someone said dependent on wheel type although TS is generally for ceramics the TX version was brought out to tackle porcelain.