Glass, double strength - Cutting Help

Jon Dogin · 2005-02-16T02:22:45+00:00

Hi,I'm hoping that someone can give me some suggestions for cutting scrap double strength glass. I picked up a few pieces from the local junkyard. They look to be pieces from a stereo cabinet - about 48"x12" and almost a quarter of an inch thick. I'm trying to cut the pieces to size so that I can use them as tops for some fish tanks. Mainly I need to do long cuts to split them in half. I was hoping to get this done at the local hardware store, but was told that the glass that I have is double strength and that I'd have to go to a glass shop. The glass shops are charging about $6/cut - that's more than I paid for the individual pieces of glass. I had one person reccomend that I use a tile cutter for this job. Anyone have experience using a tile cutter to cut double strength glass or have a better/cheaper method? Thanks in advance for any help.J.

Feb 16, 2005 20 Replies

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kato 21 years ago

The glass may be tempered, pay the $6 a cut and avoid slashing your wrists.

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