Re: [APD] Cutting Glass

[Tim Walker <twalker at swiftdsl_com.au>]

I've never done it, so I'm not speaking from experience, but I was under the
impression you needed diamond tipped blades on the saw to get through glass.

Tim

On 27/5/04 10:50 AM, "Steven Pituch" <spituch at ev1_net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I need to make some glass covers for some of my tanks that are being used as
> green houses for growing plants emersed.  Of course I would never dream of
> using a glass cover on any of my aquariums.  I have never successfully cut
> glass to shape using a cutting wheel or any sort of device that scratches
> the glass.  I have a water cooled ceramic tile saw that works pretty well.
> I have even cut two inch thick stones to shape them to fit in my aquariums.
> 
> What I would like to do is either buy some used glass or old aquariums and
> use the above saw to cut the glass.  Has anyone ever done this before?  I
> would be using whatever glass is available cheap whether it was regular
> glass, plate glass, or tempered glass.
> 
> Any advice is appreciated.  Yes, I need to be cheap at this time.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve Pituch
> http://users.ev1.net/~spituch/a.html
> 
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