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Yeah, George, little tiles aren't worth walking away from anyway. My blade moves through them pretty quick.
Where this really shines is, cutting the scrap countertop granite and stuff, which runs about 1-1/4" thick. It takes MANY times as long to get through as a 3/8" or so thick tile. All those light colored blocks and post caps were 1-1/4". And, the darker granites (catch all phrase) cut a lot slower than does most of the lighter stuff.
I've cut pieces up to three feet long on this and each cut takes a whole bunch of seconds, and then a thousand more.
When cutting the long stuff, I let it run about 20 minutes, then check on it. If the sled reaches its limit, no harm, no foul.
I just shut off the blade, push the block curf down the blade, then finish the cut. Wide pieces need tending until short enough to not be a tip problem.
As to crisp cuts, the 1-1/4" granite is, obviously, pretty heavy. It's not prone to wandering, and I've never had anything chatter, as it moves through the blade. The roughest cut I got was free-handing some rocks I was curious about.
In the end, this simple mod saved me a few hundred hours of standing in front of the saw over the years. My feet really appreciate that, or my butt, if I was sitting on a stool.
Where this really shines is, cutting the scrap countertop granite and stuff, which runs about 1-1/4" thick. It takes MANY times as long to get through as a 3/8" or so thick tile. All those light colored blocks and post caps were 1-1/4". And, the darker granites (catch all phrase) cut a lot slower than does most of the lighter stuff.
I've cut pieces up to three feet long on this and each cut takes a whole bunch of seconds, and then a thousand more.
When cutting the long stuff, I let it run about 20 minutes, then check on it. If the sled reaches its limit, no harm, no foul.
I just shut off the blade, push the block curf down the blade, then finish the cut. Wide pieces need tending until short enough to not be a tip problem.
As to crisp cuts, the 1-1/4" granite is, obviously, pretty heavy. It's not prone to wandering, and I've never had anything chatter, as it moves through the blade. The roughest cut I got was free-handing some rocks I was curious about.
In the end, this simple mod saved me a few hundred hours of standing in front of the saw over the years. My feet really appreciate that, or my butt, if I was sitting on a stool.
