Re: ATM Porcelain verses ceramic tiles

["Thomas A. Moulton" <w2vy@xanthus.net>]

That is the advantage of the smaller tiles...

I have enjoyed this thread, learned a lot about tiles.

tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mjc5" <mjc5@psu.edu>
To: <atm@shore.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: ATM Porcelain verses ceramic tiles


> 
> It is *really* hard, especially for the 1 inch or smaller tiles. I
> originally tried scoring with a glass cutter then giving the tile a good
> hit after trying to balance it on a piece of coathanger wire. NO go
> there, so I put the scored tile in a vise, with the score a bit above
> the clamp point. This worked after a fashion, about a 50% success rate.
> I finally just omitted the tiles that stuck over the edges of the tool,
> and solved the whole problem.
> 
> - Mike -
> 
> Adam Perkins wrote:
> 
> > How do you cut porcelain without a tile saw?