"Red Green" wrote in message
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"charlie" wrote in
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"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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On 4/7/2009 12:40 PM Commish spake thus:

I have some big slates rescued from a demolition project in my yard.
They are about 3' by 4' and about an inch thick. I'd like to re-
purpose them but I need them smaller than that size. If I could
break that large slate into 4 smaller ones, I'd be thrilled.

How hard is this? What tools would I need? And how would I go about
doing this?

Get ahold of a tile saw (with water spray or bath and a diamond
blade). Cuts slate like butter; after all, it's just a soft mudstone.


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i can just see him balancing a 3x4' slab on a tile saw. furthermore,
the widest cut he'll get is about 1' off the side; it can't cut the
middle of a 3' span unless it's a hand held tile saw. makita makes one
of those iirc.



Charlie, Charlie, Charlie...the slab stays on the ground. You hold the
tile saw upside down by the table and use it like a circular saw :-)

wait, if the blade sits in a water bath, how do you keep it wet when you
turn the saw upside down? Garden hose?

(if you were kidding, so am I. If not, well, I still am).

jc