00:00Welcome back to our series on concrete and stone cutting and this particular saw is usually what
00:18we call it is a target stone tile saw. The use of this saw is just like you would use a table saw
00:26for wood. Well this is your answer for concrete and tile. It's a lot easier for tile than scratch
00:34and break and it'll give you a much nicer surface. It also allows you to skim and to cut notches out
00:41and do some things that you can't do with maybe a scratch and break tile cutter for tile. Now we've
00:48left this saw in this position to start just so you can see a couple of important points. These trays
00:55or stands on the bottom here these fold up and of course this all is rigid where your saw is in
01:03your stand but what happens is here is these don't get in the right position. When you put these stands
01:11which collapse you've got to fold it out and make sure that you get the saw base into this stand
01:18properly. It's a u-shape so it can go in and out but when you get some help or if you have to do it
01:24by yourself make sure you get this stand into the into the stand properly both front and back. I've
01:33seen situations where people aren't careful they have it up on top and a little vibration the thing
01:39moves and it it falls off and once it falls off and you hit your blade and your blades not running
01:44true or it's bent you won't be doing any cutting. So prime importance to protect your blade. Also
01:51remember that this motor is a one and a half horsepower motor it's heavy it's top heavy when
01:56it's this high so when you load it unload it you hold it from the front and the back but put this
02:03against a side of your vehicle whether it be a pickup or in in your SUV or van so they can't flip over
02:10and take tip back. If it tips back again and gets hit in the blade then again it gets bent or chipped and
02:17you're not going to be doing any cutting. So a lot of care should be taken the way this is transported
02:23and the way this is initially assembled. Now once you've got that part assembled you're going to put
02:28your stand in. Your stands in some cases have a front and the back to them so be aware of that if
02:36they're labeled. They have a plug in them for the water to drain the water because you're going to fill
02:41this tray with water. So you'll put this in be careful not to hit your blade again slide it in and just
02:52it'll just like that it'll lock underneath here and there's some little stops on the side to hold
02:56your tray on this side so it's rigid and you can pull this tray out or push it back in but sometimes
03:04when you have it out you need it out when you're doing a big piece of tile. This one's a 24 inch saw so
03:09it allows you to pull it out and get a bigger piece of tile on. Now you'll put your plug in and you'll
03:15fill this tray with water up to the bottom of the rails. Okay now this pump very close to an aquarium
03:23pump idea. All right you'll tuck this pump in in the back area here. The plug will get plugged into the
03:33auxiliary that's on the side of the motor and your hose where the water is dispensed from the pump
03:40will go on either side of the blade and this is going to keep your your blade cool and allow it to
03:45cut easier as well. Some blades have to be wet to cut properly as well as some blades are dry but in
03:52this particular case we're going to be wet. The water is going to pump out of the tray over your blade back
03:57into the tray and it's going to have that cycle and once it gets fairly dirty or full of a lot of
04:03debris of course you can empty it put fresh water in and go again just so that you're not collecting a
04:08lot of debris in your pump. Now sometimes that does get collected in your pump don't forget some of the
04:14little shavings from from tile or from interlocking stone could get past the filter and they could get
04:22lodged in where the impeller is and this can happen even when you first put it together and all of a sudden
04:27it doesn't pump. While it could have been all blown out but there could have been a dry piece
04:31somewhere inside that pump that fell down and by the impeller so just simply plug it in take a small
04:37little screwdriver help the impeller out give it a little turn and you'll find it'll spin usually
04:41right away and no need to run around and try to get another pump or anything it can be fixed 90% of the
04:48time fairly easily then just snap on your your screen back on and you're ready to go again. Some of these
04:55screw on and some of them snap on okay and that'll be back into here. Now your tray this here tray is
05:05for a 24 inch tile it's got an extension on the tray as well for just to give it to some stability for
05:13when you're cutting and you'll see the rollers on the bottom this has the four of them and the two
05:19plastic rollers and make sure you line them up and put them onto your
05:27onto your rails so it rolls real easily
05:33okay and that's the way it should roll nice and easy this one has an extension so it comes off the
05:38tray a bit you can pull your tray right out like it is and and the tray even goes a little farther
05:44just to give you some more room for bigger tile and then when you put your tile or your stone on
05:49it can go against this back shoulder and give you some so that you can feed it slowly right underneath
05:54the blade for your cut and just make sure your blade just goes say a little eighth of an inch
06:00below the surface of the tray you don't need to have it right down the bottom if it's your transport or
06:05or say you did uh tumble your your uh your motor end and uh uh didn't hurt the blade but it's all
06:12now all of a sudden it's cutting down into the tray in the bottom you'll have to loosen this knob off
06:17there's some screws underneath the motor which will have to be loosened off because there's a shaft there
06:23and that way you can pull the blade back up so that you're not cutting into and through the tray
06:29now i just had a couple of different blades here i wanted to show you because this particular one is a
06:35little different uh tile blade this would be kind of a standard tile blade a lot of different tile
06:41out there a lot of different makes some blades cut really good in some tile um sometimes you're going
06:47to get those uh tile or little pieces on mesh and some pieces are metal some are glass some are ceramic
06:54very tough to have a blade that's going to cut all of them when you're trying to cut those kind of uh
06:59backsplash uh accent tiles uh so you have to find uh we have to find the um the best or the one that'll
07:07do the best in all of them some may cut a little better than others but don't get discouraged some
07:12may cut quicker or slower if you're into that into those mesh type of splashbacks this would be a type
07:20of blade what we call a serrated blade a diamond blade again and this is a 10 inch diameter blade and this
07:27is the kind of blade you use for uh stone so not necessarily one blade does all there's a lot of
07:34different styles a lot of different qualities but at least make sure you get the proper blade when you
07:40go in and you're using one of these saws the proper one for tile or the proper one for stone
07:47so this will make your job a lot easier it uh it'll do certainly do that professional look when you're
07:52trying to make some patterns maybe herring bones or different type of styles when you're trying to cut
07:57notches out you can cut a whole lot of little slits and break them off to say go around a a pipe in the
08:03floor maybe if it's in a bathroom you're trying to get around the toilet flange you can you can slice
08:09you can shave off you've got a you've got a lot of control over what you're going to do with your tiles
08:14and how thin you can cut the tile really depends on the tile some will cut very thin no pieces no
08:21problem and others they'll break but that really kind of depends on the quality of tile that you
08:27that you purchase so this is a good tool to uh to get familiar with when you have those tile jobs
08:33you want to tackle them yourself you want to do an interlocking stone job this would be the good item
08:37to have to cut your stone certainly if you do it for the the first time so keep in touch and
08:44we'll see you again and uh don't forget to subscribe
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