Don't believe a word this guy is saying. He is either very misinformed or he's lying his shiny hiney off.
After reading this most peculiar claim here I became curious and had to sleuth around a bit. Found the ads on Woodnet and CL.
First thing that strikes me is how new the saw looks like. While the guy says he's the 2nd owner already. I find that very hard to believe. I've had quite a couple of used Festools in my hand now, because I buy them, refurbish them and resell them, and not one Festool I ever had my hands on looked this good after being owned and used by no less than 2 different people. The saw looks like it has never been used or perhaps made one or two cuts at most.
Then I checked Ekat to see if there actually is any difference in motors. On the American Ekat there's only mention of 1 motor, #491852. If there ever was another motor I think it would have been mentioned there because Festool assures delivery of spare parts for at least 7 years after they stopped production of a tool. And the Trion isn't even 7 years old, let alone that it's 7 years after they stopped producing it. So if the other motor existed, it should be there, after all, people with the older type should also be able to repair their jigsaw, right?
When I checked Ekat UK, the other 110v country, then I saw two types of motors. One with #491851 and one with #491852. The 491852 isn't sold anymore in the UK, they use the 491851, while the USA uses the 491852. When you look at the price, 53 pound vs $79, they're about the same. Nothing that would warrant a big price difference between the two of them.
And then I tried to distinguish the item catalogue number on the systainer on the picture provided with the Woodnet ad. It is too low res to make it out completely, but I can recognize some digits. After googling around it turns out to be #561097, as mentioned on
productpage or Paul Marcel's
video review of it.
Funny thing is that Festool only started to use product numbers in the 5xxxxx range somewhere around 2010 or 2011. So this saw is actually a brand new model, probably the latest before they introduced T-locs. No way that this particular saw could be one of the older models even
if they existed.
I would treat this ad as very suspicious and keep my hands off it.
Hm, I should apply for a job at Snopes. Or Pinkerton.
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