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Festool -DANGER Will Robinson - aka yet another slippery slope
OK - so there's The Heavy Iron Slippery Slope, The Neander Tools
Slippery Slope, The Sharpening System Slippery Slope - and now The Festool System Slippery Slope. Each causes acceleration of the depletion of one's checking account. My Festool System Sliippery Slope has begun with the Festool Trion PS 300 EQ, a 5 pound, barrel grip, pendulum jigsaw with Systainer - which, coincidentaly, is the least expensive tool in their "system". While it works very well, its dust/chip collection set up begs for a Festool "mobile dust extractor" - the least expensive model is $285, mid range $425 and high end at $490. Each of them has a 110V outlet for you power tool. Turn on the tool, the "extractor" comes on and then the tool. At 72 db, these vacuum cleaners all also serve as the wheeled base for Systainers to stack upon and lock to. After that it's probably one of their three plunge routers $325 -$425 - locking shaft with single wrench ratcheting collet nut tightening/loosening. Of course that would benefit from their Multi-Function Table ($320-$440) as well as three or four hundred bucks worth of clamps, stops and other accessories. If you have the table it'll make some operations with the Festool TS 55 EQ or TS 75 EQ, 6 1/4" and 8 1/4" plunge circular saw, with guide, even easier. At $430 and $550 respectively, these plunge circular saws look sort of familiar - but they're only very distant cousins to their "created for construction sites" circular saws. If you do sheet goods cabinets, one of these, with the guide rail that comes with it, along with one of the three Festool plunge routers, would do the job. Wouldn't hurt to have the RO 150 E - dual mode 6" circular sander either. Oh, if there are any screws to drive - even in a corner, Festool's C12 cordless drill - at $345, $460 with their FastFix and Centronic chucks. Festool is to hand power tools what Veritas is to neander tools, without Veritas's very reasonably price ranges. It'll come as no surprise that Mr. Lucas got his hands on most of Festools product line and has given them a workout on an actual set of projects. Be forewarned, your checking account may be assaulted. Go here - if you dare. http://www.woodshopdemos.com/men-fes.htm Or to browse http://www.mcfeelys.com/festool/fest...e-cut-saws.asp If you like Porsche and Mercedes - you're gonna love Festool. charlie b no association with Festool - just a beginning addict. |
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Festool -DANGER Will Robinson - aka yet another slippery slope
Robatoy wrote:
snip I do feel the need to point out that the Porsche Mercedes analogy just doesn't fly. Festool adresses a need enabling a serious professional to execute his craft with precision and reliability. Porsche & Mercedes cater to the prestige/snot afficionados with their products. A 174 MPH SUV has bugger-all to do with form following function. Ever driven the auto bahn - in a section where there is NO speed limit? Ever done it in a VW, or even one of GM or Ford's vehicles? A friend who lives in Munich explained it this way "I can't stay totally focused on the road for two and a half hours. I CAN stay really focused for about an hour - at 170 or 180 mph - in a car with ABS disc brakes that are the size of garbage can lids, high speed radials and no blind spots, with a rock steady stearing and drivers who actually know how to drive and follow the rules of the road. (If you look in the rear view mirror and the car behind you has their left turn signal on you move out of their way at your earliest opportunity. If the car behind you has the head lights on you get out of the way even if it means going under a semi. If the guy in your rear view mirror is flashing his headlights at you - cut into the side of the tractor of that semi if you have to - safer than getting rear ended at 220 mph or so) Festool would never chrome a switch because 'some yuppie asshole will lap it up." I'm just glad you didn't draw Audi into this comparison. *G* ...also... I'm seriously looking into Festool's solution for small-shop 32mm drilling operations. Festool solves problems. Porsche and Mercedes create problems. (aka as Volkswagen and that taxi company from Stuttgart) The euro cabinet making system plus the Festool system that is made to use that sytem is a very nice combination. Dedicated tools for a specific purpose. The circular saws were use are just slightly refined versions of a framing carpenter uses - and not very refined at that. Then again... people still think that Chivas Regal is scotch. You're a Pinch Haig & Haig guy or will Cutty or Johny Walker Black do? Nice thing about scotch on the rocks - it's almost impossible to screw up - though I did get a scotch and quinine water on a plane once. Dirty trick to pull on a guy trapped in a plane. charlie b |
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Festool -DANGER Will Robinson - aka yet another slippery slope
charlie b wrote:
Robatoy wrote: snip I do feel the need to point out that the Porsche Mercedes analogy just doesn't fly. Festool adresses a need enabling a serious professional to execute his craft with precision and reliability. Porsche & Mercedes cater to the prestige/snot afficionados with their products. A 174 MPH SUV has bugger-all to do with form following function. Ever driven the auto bahn - in a section where there is NO speed limit? Ever done it in a VW, or even one of GM or Ford's vehicles? A friend who lives in Munich explained it this way "I can't stay totally focused on the road for two and a half hours. I CAN stay really focused for about an hour - at 170 or 180 mph - in a car with ABS disc brakes that are the size of garbage can lids, high speed radials and no blind spots, with a rock steady stearing and drivers who actually know how to drive and follow the rules of the road. g--------------------------------------------------------------------------***************************************** signal on you move out of their way at your earliest opportunity. If the car behind you has the head lights on you get out of the way even if it means going under a semi. If the guy in your rear view mirror is flashing his headlights at you - cut into the side of the tractor of that semi if you have to - safer than getting rear ended at 220 mph or so) Festool would never chrome a switch because 'some yuppie asshole will lap it up." I'm just glad you didn't draw Audi into this comparison. *G* ...also... I'm seriously looking into Festool's solution for small-shop 32mm drilling operations. Festool solves problems. Porsche and Mercedes create problems. (aka as Volkswagen and that taxi company from Stuttgart) The euro cabinet making system plus the Festool system that is made to use that sytem is a very nice combination. Dedicated tools for a specific purpose. The circular saws were use are just slightly refined versions of a framing carpenter uses - and not very refined at that. Then again... people still think that Chivas Regal is scotch. You're a Pinch Haig & Haig guy or will Cutty or Johny Walker Black do? Nice thing about scotch on the rocks - it's almost impossible to screw up - though I did get a scotch and quinine water on a plane once. Dirty trick to pull on a guy trapped in a plane. charlie b -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Festool -DANGER Will Robinson - aka yet another slippery slope
charlie b wrote:
Robatoy wrote: snip I do feel the need to point out that the Porsche Mercedes analogy just doesn't fly. Festool adresses a need enabling a serious professional to execute his craft with precision and reliability. Porsche & Mercedes cater to the prestige/snot afficionados with their products. A 174 MPH SUV has bugger-all to do with form following function. Ever driven the auto bahn - in a section where there is NO speed limit? Ever done it in a VW, or even one of GM or Ford's vehicles? A friend who lives in Munich explained it this way "I can't stay totally focused on the road for two and a half hours. I CAN stay really focused for about an hour - at 170 or 180 mph - in a car with ABS disc brakes that are the size of garbage can lids, high speed radials and no blind spots, with a rock steady stearing and drivers who actually know how to drive and follow the rules of the road. Good thing he lives in a little postage-stamp sized country then. He should try that going from LA to NY. (If you look in the rear view mirror and the car behind you has their left turn signal on you move out of their way at your earliest opportunity. If the car behind you has the head lights on you get out of the way even if it means going under a semi. If the guy in your rear view mirror is flashing his headlights at you - cut into the side of the tractor of that semi if you have to - safer than getting rear ended at 220 mph or so) If you are driving a 26-wheeler then just slam on the brakes and then go on about your business. "Collision, what collision? Oh, my GOD, there really is flat Mercedes back there! Thank you, officer, I'll scrape it off right away." Festool would never chrome a switch because 'some yuppie asshole will lap it up." I'm just glad you didn't draw Audi into this comparison. *G* ...also... I'm seriously looking into Festool's solution for small-shop 32mm drilling operations. Festool solves problems. Porsche and Mercedes create problems. (aka as Volkswagen and that taxi company from Stuttgart) The euro cabinet making system plus the Festool system that is made to use that sytem is a very nice combination. Dedicated tools for a specific purpose. The circular saws were use are just slightly refined versions of a framing carpenter uses - and not very refined at that. Then again... people still think that Chivas Regal is scotch. You're a Pinch Haig & Haig guy or will Cutty or Johny Walker Black do? Personally I prefer Scotch. Nice thing about scotch on the rocks - it's almost impossible to screw up Damn English. Drink your beer hot and your Scotch cold and don't have the sense to come in out of the noonday sun. - though I did get a scotch and quinine water on a plane once. Dirty trick to pull on a guy trapped in a plane. charlie b -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Festool -DANGER Will Robinson - aka yet another slippery slope
charlie b wrote:
You're a Pinch Haig & Haig guy or will Cutty or Johny Walker Black do? Nice thing about scotch on the rocks - it's almost impossible to screw up - though I did get a scotch and quinine water on a plane once. Dirty trick to pull on a guy trapped in a plane. Had a couple of VWs, give me a Tonka Toy (AKA: Baby Toyota Pick Up). If it's on the rocks, give me Glen Livit. Given enough Drambuie, most any scotch will pass muster. Lew |
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