Film cutter - are they worth it??

TintDude · October 28, 2003

Any one use the poorman's film cutter that Llumar sells? It is a simple rail that attaches to a box edge with sliding cutters. I'd like to get one.

October 28, 2003

I had one years ago, it worked marginally better than the knife in the box.

October 28, 2003

Hmmm I'd like to see a pic of that it sounds interesting anyone out there in TD land got one ?

TintDude · October 28, 2003

I had one years ago, it worked marginally better than the knife in the box.

figures

TintDude · October 28, 2003

too good to be true

October 28, 2003

I was typing while sl*t was posting or I wouldn't have spent 5 minutes typing that :lol

I wonder if SandS give typing lessons

October 28, 2003

I will see if I can dig mine up, the problem with it is, the box flexes too much

to give an accurate cut.

Roach · October 28, 2003

I just got a job today... 60 panels, about 400 sq/ft. Bunch of doublehungs... three sliders.. few skylites, and two big paladiums. I'll have to try and think while I'm cutting the film if it would work better with a cutter. That's probably about average for the types of jobs I (hope) to get.

:thumb

Protint · October 28, 2003

My brother in-law has a filmhandler and he uses it for large jobs with same size windows. But I swear he can cut out of the box just as fast as a filmhandler. The good thing about the filmhandler was that we would precut the night before over beers. He also has the poormans filmhandler that he made years ago out of a metal window frame, it fits a 60" box perfect for a clean staight edge.

Roach · October 28, 2003

See that's the other thing. The film came in to day. I'm doing the job on monday. So do I sit here at home and pre-cut everything?? Or just wait? I'd rather save the on-the-job time, but I don't want to mis-cut.