In the market for a new Wet saw,looked the Ridgid @ home depot, some nice features & price, anyone have a chance to use one yet. I only need it for 3-4 tile jobs a year, most of the big stuff gets farmed out. Most of the material we have been installing is Porcelain.
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Which unit? I bought one of the $200 non-sliding table units to do our kitchen backsplash. Worked fine, though it wasn't quite pro quality.
2 hp. , 10" BLADE, $725
I've never used it but it's awfully expensive to not be a
felker.
I looked but didn't buy. Looks like a nice saw.
I bought the Dewalt recon from Tool King I think for around the same price.
I really haven't heard good/bad/or otherwise on the Rigid.
You might want to try john bridge forums; it's a tile forum.
I bought that saw about a year ago & have done maybe 8 baths and 2 large basement floors with it. 2 baths were porcelain the rest have been natural stone of some sort, yet I still am using the original blade.
It is heavy, can be a beech to get up some stairs or load on the truck by yerself, but I have been very happy with it.
Ya might wanna look at it this way....I paid about $1200 for this saw about 15 years ago and it's paid for itself five billion times over. Never a days worth of trouble with it.
Yeh...it's heavy but big deal..it's a super saw.
Over the years you'll forget what you paid for it.
It's always best to get the very best tool you can afford. You'll use it more then you think......
or not
just sayin'
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I've had one for about a year now, maybe ten jobs with it. No problems so far. As the other poster said, I'm still on the original blade.
dug
hi cic
I had a Riamondi Gladiator (200+ pounds) and bought the De Walt for a more portable saw (can be taken down into 4 sub assembly's) and it has run like a champ.
It has become my primary wet saw for the last 2+ years, during witch we set over 55,000 sqft mixed residential/ light commercial.
If i were in the market today the saw that has my interest is the new MK. http://www.mkdiamond.com/tile/saw_tx3.html it uses a mist system so it has almost zero over spray. would not say that i would buy it over the De Walt but i would take a hard look.
Craig
I've had the HD no-name 10" saw for about 10 years, tiling, pavers, it just keeps going and going and ...
I know your after something a bit nicer but, I just picked up
one of these-
http://www.harborfreightusa.com/usa/itemdisplay/displayItem.do?itemid=46225&CategoryName=&SubCategoryName=
Haven't had a chance to use it just yet, but it looks pretty good for the money.
Most of the material we have been installing is Porcelain.
I'm in a similar situation, only do tile as part of another job, once in a while.
I use a Felker tile cutter for porcelain, 12X12 tile. If you want the model number I can go out to the garage and have a look. It's very quick, clean and easy to use. Got a Makita angle grinder for the funny cuts but I'd like to have a wet saw too.
I saw a decent looking, inexpensive Ryobi wet saw at HD, a few weeks ago, sliding table. I started a thread on BT, looking for others' experience with it but the saw has only been around for a couple of months, I guess, so there weren't many helpful comments.
Knowing the HD has an excellent return policy, I'd give it a try for one job, just to see if it performs well and holds up OK.
I bought an inexpensive, no name, tile saw from HD, the last time I did a slate floor. It had a strong motor and a decent blade but was otherwise a minor PIA to work with, slow to set up for each cut and not very accurate.
I used it for several days work, then returned it in the original box. I was asked to explain my reason for bringing it back but soon received a full refund on my credit card. I later saw three of them at HD, returns like mine, being offered at a lower price.
This new Ryobi looks more promising than the no name wet saw. Its design is copied from proven models by other manufacturers. And its price is a good fit for occasional tile jobs, particularly when most of the work will done by a quality tile cutter like the Felker.
Edited 1/24/2009 8:40 am by Hudson Valley Carpenter