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Gary From Mules

11-07-2007 16:56:21

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I will be doing a tile job in Mother-in-laws house and will need a wet tile saw for some cuts. What do you guys think of the ones Harbor Freight (I know its foreign made, but what isn't these days) for under a $100.00. This is not a big job, just a small utility room. After that I will most likely use on occasion for myself and some other handyman type jobs around town.
Tell me what you think.

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Gary from Muleshoe

11-10-2007 06:22:50

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

Thanks everyone for the input, I believe I will get the one from HD as they are closer then HF anyway and it's looks to be about the same quality of saw.

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Greg - NAA

11-08-2007 15:58:25

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

I got a similar 7" wet tile saw at Northern Tool ($60 on sale). Needed a saw for our kitchen backsplash as we were using tumbled marble - lots of cuts around outlets. Purchasing it was the same cost as a weekend rental of a professional wet saw. The fence measurement markings were off, so I just used my eyeball method instead. You don't need extreme accuracy with 1/4" grout joints anyway. Overall, it worked fine and I've used it for "free" on a couple of other small jobs around the house.

I'd go for it.

Greg

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1945 A

11-08-2007 13:19:53

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

I bought the cheap one at Home Depot ($79, I think?)and it"s worked great for me, doing all the cuts I needed when I tiled the kitchen. I imagine the one from HF is similar. I bought a concrete mixer from Harbor Freight a couple of years ago, and that little rascal has amazed me with how good it"s performed---not the biggest, maybe not the fastest, but for a do it yourself kind of project, it"s worked great.
Good luck with whatever you decide!

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mokicker

11-08-2007 04:00:26

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

I bought the $79 HF saw about four years ago while remodeling my house. Have done about 1800sqft here, did about 1000sqft for nephew and loaned it to a couple friends. Not fast; but if you let it do the work, no problems. Still useing the cheap blade that came on it. It's due replacement though. For the doityourselfer, can't be beat.

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TyTX

11-07-2007 22:01:00

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

I'm working a major remodel of a $750,000 house. We're laying 5 pallet loads of slate tile and doing all the cuts with the HF $299 10" tile saw.

Great saw, couldn't ask for any better. We're using the $29 diamond saw blade too. No complaints and it cuts the slate like butter.

Here it is

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suptscottyb

11-09-2007 17:30:55

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to TyTX, 11-07-2007 22:01:00

Slate IS butter when compared to fired tile...

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BobOHIO

11-07-2007 19:05:44

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

My friend bought the cheap saw from Home Depot and tiled this bath room with no problems and did a really nice job.

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don t-9n180179

11-08-2007 05:16:49

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to BobOHIO, 11-07-2007 19:05:44

I have to ditto the HD cheepy wet saw. 7" diamond blade. Not very precise, but what do you expect for $100. I've done 3 semi-major tile jobs in my house. I even used it to cut my Nova Brik siding. I had to flip the brick to get a full cut, took my time cutting, it worked fine. Have fun.....don t. .....

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suptscottyb

11-07-2007 18:41:22

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

Gary, I bought the HF $200 tub saw. 10 inch 2 1/2 hp? I tiled about 1500 sq are ft with it and 5 years later pulled it out of the shed to cut block cap for a masonry. It has held up fine. The h2o delivery was weak so I split the line and wet both sides of the blade. Get the $100 blade, i wasn't disappointed in this cheap tool.

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Stan in Oly, WA

11-07-2007 18:05:53

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

Hi Gary,

From reading your posts on this forum I'd say that you could probably make it work. Bad Harbor Freight tools are generally bad in one of two ways: they fail soon after you first use them (so it's easy to get your money back---if nothing else), or they work poorly and/or minor parts fail. A guy who's used to making his own repairs (like maybe most of the regulars on this forum) can generally coax a tool like that to do what he needs it to do, sometimes even figure out how to tweak it a little to turn it into a halfway decent tool.

A good tub saw is a beautiful thing, but it's not complicated. For a few cuts you can get by with a lot less. I once watched my brother-in-law cut heavy tile indoors with a diamond blade on a Skill 77 worm-drive saw by holding a wet rag against the blade behind the cut. Que hombre! That's not OSHA approved, by the way.

All the best, Stan

P.S. Where is Muleshoe?

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Gary From Muleshoe

11-07-2007 19:00:07

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Stan in Oly, WA, 11-07-2007 18:05:53

Stan Muleshoe is located in the great state of West Texas. We have a son that live in Tacoma, WA. He was in the Army married a nice gal from there and stayed.

Gary

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Gary From Muleshoe

11-07-2007 17:59:48

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

Jim When I get one you are welcome to use it when you need. I don't plan to wear it out any time soon.

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Billy NY

11-07-2007 17:24:10

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

Not familiar with the H-F one, but the $80 unit from Lowes worked great for a small job I did last year, good friend borrowed it for another small job, seems to be an inexpensive way to get by for these kind of jobs. The fence on it is not the strongest, but it works, just keep it square on with the increments stamped into the table on it. I did not forsee a lot of tile work coming my way, so I chanced buying the low priced model to get it done.

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msb

11-07-2007 19:28:35

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Billy NY, 11-07-2007 17:24:10

Agree with Billy. I bought one at Lowes for 70 bucks. Have used it on 4 or 5 jobs so far. Does a nice job for the money, ya can't beat it.

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Billy NY

11-07-2007 19:38:18

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to msb, 11-07-2007 19:28:35

Funny, I don't recall ever doing any ceramic tile before, but this bathroom floor really needed it for the traffic it gets, had no idea how I was going to cut the tile, when I saw this unit on the shelf, that solved that problem, tile color was a special order, figured that little wet saw would do and it did fine.

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CRUSADER

11-07-2007 17:06:34

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Re: Harbor Freight Tile Saw in reply to Gary From Muleshoe, 11-07-2007 16:56:21

Hello Gary,

I've looked at those tile saws at Harbor Freight also. If you decide to buy one, let me know how it works out. They were selling commercial (made in china) tile saws at Lowes that I was looking at prior to going to Korea for about $280.00. Also at Hacienda they have/had the small tile saws selling for under a $100.00.

I have two bathrooms to tile. Bought the tile at Home Depot (summer of 05) and Wan's still reminding me to get to work on it. Hopefully she remains understanding for a while longer.

Jim

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