Choose a tile cutter
When facing walls, floors with ceramic tiles, for a smooth, high-quality cut, a reliable and convenient tile cutter is required.
Content
- General information
- Types of tile cutters
- Machine or mechanical tile cutters video
- Types of tile cutter carriages
- Luxury Tools
- Top Feed Electric Tile Cutters video
- Electric tile cutters with lower feed video
- Tile cutter Bison
- Tile Cutter Safety
General information
A zealous owner often tries to acquire a tool for working with finishing materials, for his own use.
Tile cutter is one of the tools necessary for working with tiles and ceramic tiles.
In order to save yourself from unnecessary expenses for the purchase of additional tiles, you need to take care of a reliable tile cutter, as one wrong movement and the tile is damaged.
The tile cutter is useful not only for trimming tiles, but also in order to make a hole in the tile for the pipe, etc.
Types of tile cutters
This tool is mechanical and electrical.
If you work with ordinary tiles, the amount of work is small - a mechanical tile cutter is useful.
The cheapest manual tile cutter is a glass cutter.
Such a tile cutter includes a carbide roller, which is mounted on a wooden handle.
A little practice, you will get the knack as a result of which you get a good result.
The second manual tile cutter, you can call a tile cutter - nippers.
This tool is used to create holes for water taps, to create fasteners when hanging furniture.
Such tile cutters are very cheap and with good skill from experienced craftsmen, it works flawlessly.
But you don’t get the perfect cut, as you try, and you still need to grind and polish the edges.
Machine or mechanical tile cutters
Benchtop tile cutters of a machine type, this is not a glass cutter for you, but a more serious tool.
They can be called a tile cutter for porcelain stoneware, this tool provides good cut quality, copes with thick ceramic tiles and porcelain stoneware.
These mechanisms have a platform as a stable base, a floating support, a guide with a carriage, a cutting roller and a foot for breaking a tile are fixed on it.
Various benchtop machine-type tile cutters are produced, but the principle of operation is the same.
In the process of work, using a special emphasis, tiles are fixed on a metal platform.
During cutting, the tile rests on the edge of the tool (the edge is welded along the central longitudinal axis of the base).
A roller is mounted on the carriage to make a cut;
Types of tile cutter carriages
Models of economy class tile cutters are equipped with a carriage, which is worn directly on a guide made of hollow tubes.
In the process, the parts are abraded, as a result of which a gap (backlash) is created between the carriage and the guide - this affects the quality of cutting.
Mid-level mechanisms have nylon bushings, as spacers they reduce friction, increase wear resistance, the result is a longer service life of the parts.
But nylon sleeves, to maintain quality performance, must be periodically changed.
Advanced modern tile cutters are equipped with bearings that ensure smooth carriage travel and long component life. Some semi-professional models have guides made of all-metal rods.
Luxury Tools
Luxury tools are equipped with special carriages.
Such a manual tile cutter can qualitatively cut, break a tile, regardless of location and a given angle.
Such tile cutters have remote rulers, squares, protractors, etc.
This tool has a wonderful option that can accurately cut a hole of various diameters.
Professionals find it convenient to use a manual tile cutter with a removable RTS1 carriage from Bosch, Germany.
Top Feed Electric Tile Cutters
Of course, manual tile cutters have their advantages, but have low productivity, can not work with large-format tiles.
Therefore, with a large amount of work, for high-quality production, it is necessary to have an electric tile cutter.
Such tile cutters come in two types, depending on the location of the motor.
So, if the tile cutter has a motor in the upper position, it refers to professional equipment.
Such mechanisms use a diamond disk as a cutting element.
Different models have different kinematic schemes.
One model has a moving cutting disc, and the table is stationary.
In other models - the opposite.
Such tile cutters can be called water tile cutters. The water cooling system does not allow the incisor to heat up, which ensures a longer time operation.
Such professional units have large dimensions and high cost. But powerful professional cutting tools, if necessary, can be rented.
Electric tile cutters with lower feed
At the lower position of the engine, tile cutters have compact dimensions, a fixed platform and a cutting disc.
Here the guide moves, to which the tile is attached.
This is also a water tile cutter.
Such tools are very popular among home masters, at a cost, these compact electric tile cutters are cheaper than professional ones.
Tile cutter Bison
ZEP-450N Russia bison is a desktop electric tile cutter for wet cutting.
It is used when working with stone and ceramic tiles.
It can do three cutting options: straight, oblique, at an angle of 45 degrees, can process a workpiece of unlimited length.
Power 450W., The outer diameter of the circle 180 mm., Has a mass of 12.4 kg.
Tile Cutter Safety
As with any other mechanism, to avoid injuries, follow safety rules.
1. First read the manufacturer's instructions.
2.Use protective clothing, gloves, glasses, and headphones when working with the electric tile cutter.
3.Check that the tool is working.
4. High-quality fix the tile.
5. Exclude the possibility of foreign objects.
6. After work, remove the dust that has formed.
7. Change the water in the tank regularly if the electric tile cutter has manual cooling.
8. The tile cutter must be installed on a flat, solid base, the humidity in the room is not higher than 70%.
9. At the end of work, disconnect the machine from the mains.
