Dear Partners in Pointless-Pursuits...:-

With some very narrow offcuts that I have to take off quite a few tiles here and there in the Bathroom, I went out during the week and bought myself one of those little Benchtop-style electric Tile-Saws (ie. where the Blade points upwards out of the Table).

Well, this morning - after cutting my first tile with it - I had to quickly move it from the Kitchen floor to the Bathroom floor near the Floor Waste, because it had rapidly created a shallow puddle of water that was snaking its way out towards the 4-way Powerboard that I had on the Kitchen floor. Then - after the second cut with it - I had to shut proceedings down for the day, because I could see that the water leaking out of it had become well and truly cloudy, and I didn't want to risk the prospect of clogging up the Floor Waste pipe with a finely-ground-ceramic slurry...:cool:

Now before any of you can even think along the lines of "I'll bet you had the Water Tray overfilled!", I'm afraid the answer is positively in the negative :no: ( :q ). In point of fact, I didn't dare to fill it to much more than about half-way, because of the amount of water that started to leak out on to the Kitchen Floor during a Test Fire-Up before I even started cutting Tiles, and also because of the increasing amount of water that the Blade was throwing back at me as the water-level in the Water-Tray was increased...

By tilting the Table Top over to 45deg in order to view the innards of the thing, I can actually see where the leaking water is coming from; it's not from any crack in the unit's Case, but rather from some drainage-slots that sit at the bottom of the recess in which the motor is housed. When the unit is fired-up, water simply runs up to Table level (courtesy of the rear-edge of the Blade), and then cascades over the little separating-wall between the Motor and the Blade. Once in there, it's runs sideways for a bit before it finds the said drainage-slots, and then the floor...:(

So, the obvious questions that I pose to you all are:

1) How much (if any) water do your inexpensive little Tile Saws leak onto the floor when you're using them? :?

and (while I'm at it...),

2) How much water do their Blades throw back at you from above their Tables?


Many Thanks,
Batpig.


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