Hi,
First post so hello guys, I have been looking for a few months now, and I like all the good info on here regarding Festool.  I have recently started the slippery slope of purchasing these excellent tools,  I have the Domino, and TS55(though I expect there will be many more).  I am a professional cabinet maker running my own, albeit small(just me and an apprentice) business in England.  The third of my purchases arrived today, a CTL 36 Vacuum that seems superb incidentally.
 Now my question is this...is there anyway of getting the hose to straighten out?. Because at the moment it's very frustrating to use, it keeps wrapping up around everything, including me. Will this straighten out in time? Thanks in advance

You have to “charm” it.

Lay the hose out on the floor.  It’ll coil up some.

Stand back 2 meters, and *throw money at it*.  Eventually it will find it’s way over and slurp up your money.  Don’t worry, you’ll be pleased with this end result.  ;-)


Welcome to the FOG!   

Long ago I purchased an extra long (27mm x 5m) AS hose.

When I purchased my first CT22, it came with the 27mm x 3.5m AS hose. Like your new hose, that was wrapped tight. like a wannabe boa constrictor. At the time I was using a room in my condo as a workspace. The ceiling was not hight enough to properly hang the hose. But I am on the second level.

I put some hot water in my bath tub, to soak the hose. Then I used some cotton sash cord to hand a weight to the 50mm end. I put a loop of the cord around the 27mm end and hung the warm hose out of a window over night. During the day I would use the hose, and when it was late enough I could not build my project, I left the hose hanging out the window. In a few days it was supple.

Later I did the same with the longer hose. Subsequently with my 50mm and 36mm hoses. The advantage of having more hoses than vacs is that lately I do not need to be in a hurry to start using the one that comes with a new vac.

Fortunately at the center of the bow truss supporting the roof of my new shop it is 18' clear of the deck. At a spot where there is no traffic we installed a pulley with sash cord. New hoses hang from that until supple and free of kinks. Close by is a similar arrangement to allow new extension cables to hang out until supple.

Thanks for the answers guys, I don't have a dryer however, so I will try the hot water method, and will hang it out in my shop with some weights. You would think for nearly $900 it would come pre straightened

I did basically the same thing with a hair dryer.  Don't ask what a bald guy is doing with a hair dryer, though...