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Poll

Cutting Rubber - How do YOU do it?

I use sharp scissors
33.3%
22 (33.3%)
I use a scalpel
3%
2 (3%)
I use my scraper blade
48.5%
32 (48.5%)
I use my front teeth
3%
2 (3%)
I buy rubber ready cut to size.
12.1%
8 (12.1%)

Total Members Voted: 63

M4RK

Cutting Rubber
« on: November 02, 2006, 05:26:06 pm »
Do tell...

WavieDavie

  • Posts: 951
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2006, 05:46:38 pm »
Option  6

I use a hose cutter http://tinyurl.com/yla2xe  I got one like this from MachineMart years ago, but they don't stock them now. It gives a perfect squared-off end cut every time and absolutely no chance of cutting your fingers with this gadget  - unless you put one in the jaws, of course.

Here's its heavy metal big brother  http://tinyurl.com/yyfcd6 which costs slightly less, somehow.
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Tim Morton

  • Posts: 201
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2006, 06:50:37 pm »
Option 7

I use a pair of electricians wire cutters, sharp ones of course, leaves a nice and very straight edge.

Tim
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe!!
Craigavon, N.Ireland

master cleaner

  • Posts: 519
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2006, 07:17:10 pm »
i use a proper rubber cutter from soap national £1.50 best thing i have bought for ages


gary

Pj

Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2006, 07:33:36 pm »
I notice sharp scissors and scraper blade are neck 'n neck!

If I remember to change my rubber before going out I'll use our multi purpose very sharp scissors (you know, the pair in the kitchen that your wife has told you not to do diy with ;D).

If I realise at work that my rubber is naff then it gets cut with the scraper, which is probably what I do mostly.

jeff1

  • Posts: 5855
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2006, 08:16:01 pm »
Scissors if I'm at home or my scraper blade if at work,

I could only vote on one, so I chose scissors, because most of the time I'm at home when I cut them.

petetaylor56

  • Posts: 175
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2006, 11:07:17 pm »
 :)always use my scraper and over hang channel by a couple of mil :)
today i be mostly wfp

pjulk

Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2006, 11:09:53 pm »
I by precut 12" rubbers but also 36" for other size squeegie channels and cut these down with my scraper with a new blade in.

Paul

Cleaner Windows

  • Posts: 757
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2006, 11:16:17 pm »
i use my scraper blade and cut each end on my roof bars to keep them steady ;)
when I'm cleaning windows

Chris Cottrell

  • Posts: 3162
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2006, 12:07:47 am »
Has to be scraper blade for me

JM123

  • Posts: 2095
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2006, 12:13:33 am »
front teeth cuz I'm well ard - sorry front tooth - I lost the other playing a friendly game of face breaking with a group of nice gentlemen.  14 on 1?  Seen it on the cctv cameras the next day after the hospital had sent me home with a broken cheek bone and fractured jaw that no one had noticed.
Live life in the fast lane.......if you break down you'll freewheel further

Ballymena N.I

M4RK

Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2006, 04:16:37 pm »
I've always used really sharp scissors and pulled the rubber tight (not over stretching) when I cut it.
I found out recently though, that it's best not to use a pair of scissors.

Quote
i use a proper rubber cutter from soap national £1.50 best thing i have bought for ages


gary 
Posted by: Tim Morton  Posted on: November 02, 2006, 06:50:37 PM 
Insert Quote 
Option 7

I use a pair of electricians wire cutters, sharp ones of course, leaves a nice and very straight edge.

Tim 
Posted by: WavieDavie  Posted on: November 02, 2006, 05:46:38 PM 
Insert Quote 
Option  6

I use a hose cutter http://tinyurl.com/yla2xe  I got one like this from MachineMart years ago, but they don't stock them now. It gives a perfect squared-off end cut every time and absolutely no chance of cutting your fingers with this gadget  - unless you put one in the jaws, of course.

Here's its heavy metal big brother  http://tinyurl.com/yyfcd6 which costs slightly less, somehow. 


The reason is you don't get a square edge from scissors apparently.

Never heard of a rubber cutter, might get one of them. Thanks

Jeff Brimble

  • Posts: 4347
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2006, 05:06:07 pm »
Dab of neat fairy liquid for a bit of slide and a new razer blade in a scraper holder, also rub a bit on the rubber, slid back and forth.

AuRavelling79

  • Posts: 26545
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2006, 06:10:53 pm »
front teeth cuz I'm well ard - sorry front tooth - I lost the other playing a friendly game of face breaking with a group of nice gentlemen.  14 on 1?  Seen it on the cctv cameras the next day after the hospital had sent me home with a broken cheek bone and fractured jaw that no one had noticed.

If you were Welsh you could call yourself Evans central 'eatin!

BTW -  JM123 - lady round here had a gun pulled on her when she offered a pair of magazines at a door in a block of flats. (She called the police and it turned out to be imitation - but she didn't know that!)
It's a game of three halves!

JM123

  • Posts: 2095
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2006, 06:19:19 pm »
Not nice, a friend not so long ago answered the door at home (bungalow miles from the back of beyond), 3 gentlemen with handguns (real) tied him and the family up, robbed the place and left.  The same (we presume) gang done about 10 more homes in the County Antrim area within a few weeks of this.  Never caught.

Why she have a gun pulled on her??
Live life in the fast lane.......if you break down you'll freewheel further

Ballymena N.I

S_RICHARDSON

  • Posts: 980
Re: Cutting Rubber
« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2006, 10:46:14 am »
It has to be my scraper blade i always have this with me at work!!