Cutting glass? - Beyond Tiki

A Alnshely Member Oceanside CA Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 974	A Alnshely Posted posted on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 9:30 PM Danny, I was a Glassblower and I used to cut stock on a Pistorias saw. It is a wet saw with a flexible blade. Is Your blade rigid? If your cut binds, the glass will exlode. Remember they are FLYING razor sharp shards of glass. WHEN A CUT GOES BAD, IT GOES REAL BAD. be careful, use all precautions , eye protection, saftey first, wear a cup. Call me 760-754-8195. I remeber once I was cuting a 5 foot long two inch Dia tube of kimbal 5450. Like a flourescent tube with a 1/4 inch wall thickness. The blade had degraded and actualy fell apart at speed, KAPOW, it shatered the tube I was holding, it was raining glass. It was like my hundredth cut that morning, woke me up, I tell you what. Be carefull, please. Mahalo, Al

Danny,
I was a Glassblower and I used to cut stock on a Pistorias saw. It is a wet saw with a flexible blade. Is Your blade rigid? If your cut binds, the glass will exlode. Remember they are FLYING razor sharp shards of glass. WHEN A CUT GOES BAD, IT GOES REAL BAD. be careful, use all precautions , eye protection, saftey first, wear a cup. Call me 760-754-8195.

I remeber once I was cuting a 5 foot long two inch Dia tube of kimbal 5450. Like a flourescent tube with a 1/4 inch wall thickness. The blade had degraded and actualy fell apart at speed, KAPOW, it shatered the tube I was holding, it was raining glass. It was like my hundredth cut that morning, woke me up, I tell you what. Be carefull, please.
Mahalo,
Al

Post #38669 by Alnshely on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 9:30 PM