Tile cutter gone wrong!

Cutting the tile at the opposite side to were it should be cut?

Surely shouldn't make any difference. A dimond cutter should just laugh at tiles, no matter which side is presented.

Tim

I didn't check the blad direction, as it was brand new, i assumed they had put this in the correct way round! now its happened I'm wondering if they did!!!

It does say in instructions thatit has to go a certain way...

I will be returning it for a swap - 30 mile round trip which is annoying, but hopefully this is a one off!!

So why do they have an arrow printed on one side indicating its direction of rotation?

I don't think there are teeth as such so I'm sure the direction wouldn't matter that much. Could be that the blade wasn't fully tightened or the washer wasn't in the right place or something. Then it would probably spin ok until it came into contact with something.

I didn't check the blad direction, as it was brand new, i assumed they had put this in the correct way round! now its happened I'm wondering if they did!!!

It does say in instructions thatit has to go a certain way...

I will be returning it for a swap - 30 mile round trip which is annoying, but hopefully this is a one off!!

Is the direction arrow showing when you lift the guard? ie the tray side, if so then its not the blade.

Im not near the machine now so cant check but will do later.

The bits that came off just looked like a graphite composite material, which were bonded/stuck to the metal part of the blade... Surely this makes them prone to this kind of thing as a weak point in the bond would cause a cracking at that high speed>?

Now it has broken and the coating has come off it makes me question hwo it would ever work, it doest seem strong enough. Screfix said they had never heard of it happening before and I guess all diamond disks are made the same way?

Surely good advice that applies in many situations ;-)

Matt

I know some have an arrow etc, but are the plain types actually handed? They appear just to be a disc with the edge part diamond coated.

Normally label or printed side out.

I replaced my blade (wore out after a thousand tles or so, and a few sandstone paving slabs) for one that cost about 15 quid.

Now you now why the cutter was so cheap ;-)

I don't think they are. This was just a shoddy disc, and that's why it was being knocked out so cheap.

Top quality diamond would be over £40 in that sort of sze..that's for just the DISC..

The Plasplugs ones are about 20 quid and seem to have a good life.

When mine went, there were replacements fro corundum at 7 quid, cheapo diamond at a tenner, decent diamond at 15, and the sort of 'I can chew through granite in a microsecond' diamonds at 40 quid.

On the bigger sizes it gets even more expensive for the really tough ones.

There's not much choice with Plasplug ones as they seem to have an odd fitting size.