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My tile saw kept burning up blades on this one bathroom floor
I was cutting 12x24 porcelain tiles for a master bath remodel and went through three $40 diamond blades in one afternoon. Turns out my saw's water pump was clogged with old grout from a previous project so the blades had zero cooling. Anyone else ever fight a tool problem for hours only to find it was something stupid like that?
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ross.lily17h ago
Has anyone else spent an entire afternoon burning through blades before realizing your water line was basically dry? I read a tip from @gray_morgan about checking simple stuff first, and honestly that would have saved me a lot of cash. My pump was clogged with old thinset dust too, and I was just blaming the tiles. It's always the dumb stuff that gets you.
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wendy82019h ago
Oh man, that'll do it every time. I've definitely chased my tail on stuff like that.
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Wendy, you mentioned chasing your tail, and that got me thinking. Sometimes the problem isn't even what you're looking at, but the tool you're using to look at it. I had a situation once where I was certain a pipe was leaking, but it turned out my moisture meter was just reading high from the humidity in the room. Have you ever had a tool or a method throw you off like that?
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