French to English translations [PRO]
Construction / Civil Engineering / tile-cutting implements (ceramic floor tiles) | | French term or phrase: pince perroquet | 1 raclette crantée en caoutchouc
1 maillet en caoutchouc et 1 planchette en bois
Gabarits d'écartement correspondant à la taille des carreaux
1 pince à couper ou 1 carrelette adaptée à la coupe de votre carrelage
1 scie à lame-fil pour les découpes particulières ou les faïences
1 pointe à tracer au carbure
1 ******pince perroquet****** pour les coupes fines ou partielles
1 grille abrasive, qui peut être nécessaire pour polir certaines découpes
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"pince à couper" versus "carrelette" versus "pince perroquet"
These will be posted as 3 separate questions, but I need to be able to distinguish between the 3 terms.
One, I assume, will be "tile nippers", but which one, and what about the others?
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks! |
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 Miranda Joubioux
France
Local time: 20:01
| Grading comment Many thanks, Miranda! I was hoping for st more specific than "tile nippers", but would have happily settled for that had you not come up with these links.
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21 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 | tile nippers
Explanation:
I think this is the specialist tool for cutting/nipping tiles, but is very similar to nippers used for other applications (cutting wire, pulling out nails, etc.), except that the jaws are slightly longer in the case of tiles.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-10-11 13:35:26 GMT) Post-grading
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Hadn't thought about the complexities of tiling. It appears these are nippers used for breaking out holes in tiles, for taps and pipework. Ordinary straight nippers couldn't be worked into the hole, but parrot nippers do fit in, since the handle is in another plane. As one tiler says on the web, though, these are going out of fashion as ceramic hole cutters (on drills) gain ground.
| Bourth
France
Local time: 20:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 3244
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Asker: thanks, Bourth! At least one of them has to be tile nippers, and this sounds like a likely candidate.
Asker: thanks again, Bourth! I was quite happy with this until Miranda came along! Also, I've used "tile nippers" later for "pinces à grignoter" (rightly or wrongly...)
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