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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.lily2mo 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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wendy8202mo ago
Oh man, that'll do it every time. I've definitely chased my tail on stuff like that.
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gray_morgan2mo ago
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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