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[Fekin]

Never used a Rubi so I couldn't comment.

 

[chille]

I have a few Rubi's and in all fairness they do a good job day in day out for a very long time, my oldest is 8 years old and the one I use nearly every day so she has cut a lot of tiles and I think it will do another 8 years easy. :hurray:

 

[mick86]

i have just started but thought the sigma was really good big thick bar that will not bend an it has the little circular hole that can be used to knock holes in the tile for pipes useing your pin hammer if you have no power on site

 

[mwss77]

Hi Guys

Thanks for your replies on this - couldn't reply any sooner as my sons mate spilt his drink over the laptop!!!!

Anyway, I am purchasing a montolit 26PB for small format - see Kwiksplit.co.uk for great deals. They are selling for £83.50

if any one knows where they are cheaper, let us know

Cheers
Mark

 

[pjhawthorne]

Bought a Rubi TS600 then realised it was useless for any diagonal that wasn't corner to corner due to fixed breaker (useless for tiling a floor laid out at 45 degs to the wall). Took it straight back and consulted these forums (thank you!!). Then bought a Masterpiuma 63P2, which has been brilliant on 9mm porcelain at all angles and cuts some impressively small slithers cleanly when re-using offcuts.

 

[ross lewiss]

just reading some reviews on what cutter to get and rubi seem popular but how do you cope when you cannot cut corner to corner on a thick piece pf porcelain. would you need another cutter? hope i have made sense?
thanks, ross

 

[Daz]

Hi Ross,

I use a Rubi TR600-S for straight cuts. The only thing I have struggled to get a good straight cut on is fully vitrified tiles, only my wet cutter will go through those suckers.

For internal corners or shapes I use a combination of wet cutter and nippers (ceramic only for nippers).

Hope this helps,
Regards

 

[ross lewiss]

so if i buy a ts70 plus and i need to cut a piece of tile that the breaker wont cut due to the fixed breaker, then i have to use a wet saw? more expense arrgh
i only want to concentrate on ceramic and porcelain because i cant afford to buy all the equipment for the other kind of tiling and i thought a rubi tile cutter would cut any porcelain or so the video clip shows?

 

[Holohana]

so if i buy a ts70 plus and i need to cut a piece of tile that the breaker wont cut due to the fixed breaker, then i have to use a wet saw? more expense arrgh
i only want to concentrate on ceramic and porcelain because i cant afford to buy all the equipment for the other kind of tiling and i thought a rubi tile cutter would cut any porcelain or so the video clip shows?

Then its the Tx or TR range of rubi your after, moveable breaker.

 

[Daz]

My TR600-S doesn't have a fixed breaker so I can make straight cuts anywhere on a tile. Within reason, as it doesn't play nicely when trying to just take a small amount off! But no dry cutter will allow you to do internal corners or shapes unless you want to score with a dry cutter and then nip the sucker out (horrible if trying to do it with porcelain or vitrified!).