[sci.electronics] Lasers to cut ceramic tiles

phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (01/30/90)

In article <13093@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> bwf@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (bernard.w.fecht) writes:
|I've been cutting ceramic tile for the last couple of
|nights, having a rough time at it.  I was wondering,
|while doing my chipping and breaking, what kind of
|laser I'd need to cut my weird angles through these
|1/4" tiles.  Could I possibly get it at Radio Shack
|or Edmund Scientific?

If you want to cut tiles, go rent a wet tile saw with a diamond blade.
If you want to screw around, play with lasers.


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batman@watsci.uwaterloo.ca (Marcell Stoer) (01/31/90)

If you intend too use a laser to cut tiles, you're going to need 80-100K in
cash, a lot of room and some know-how in operating them.  An ion laser
that can put out say 30 watts (80K from Coherent) will have a hard time
cutting tiles, but could do it eventually.  Ceramic is pretty tuff.
Edmund Scientific is more of a novelty scientific supply company, they 
probably sell HeNe's, but that's about all.

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