Is it a type 1, type 3, or type 4? Just order a new switch. Type 1 and type 3 switch part number is 5140110-00. Type 4 switch part number is N058845. Won't cost more than $17 + shipping. Should be an easy fix....

Happy to help - there's a service center in Latham that can get you back up real quick as well.

Happy to help.

Hope it was German beer....I think we can all agree that Festool is in a different class than Dewalt, but it's worth it to get a $20 part (price must have went up in the past few hours) I fix his dewalt whether he decides to keep it or not.

Lol well put

My main use now for the biscuit joiner is making clean slots for attaching table tops to aprons using clips and for thin stock joining.


Frank

A biscuit joiner still does have a function.  I have both and although I admit that the biscuit joiner does not get used often, I would not throw it away and if it were to break I would repair.

Peter

Hmmmm? Beer or biscuit joiner? Biscuit joiner or beer?

Sorry, but BEER wins out every time. 

Peter,
Ordered the trigger assembly today..Thanks for the info. I have never used the Lamello brand only Dewalt and PC brand.

Frank

Some of my best friends own PC and DW biscuit joiners. Many of those also own Domino joiners.

I do not remember the year I bought my oldest Lamello biscuit joiner, but I am sure it was before there were the less expensive knock-offs. Even after I used a Domino in Europe before they are available in the USA I did not stop using my Lemello.

Then my original Domino was delivered, the one with the pins. It was like my world improved. Eventually I was using my Domino so often I bought a second one, by then with the paddles. As far as I know the last of my Lamello joiners still functions, but before I bought the second Domino I had run out of biscuits. Instead of buying more, I put the Lamello in its case on a shelf. It was packed and moved to my new shop in 2010 without being removed from its case.

I sold my Porter Cable biscuit joiner last month - put the money in the Domino XL purchase fund.  Didn't fill the fund very much as compared to the price of the XL!  Don't miss it a bit.

I think it is much easier to let a $150 machine (biscuit joiner) sit on the shelf than it is to let an $800 machine (domino joiner).

I have a domino and an ELU biscuit machine that I would use for some projects over dominos.  I like to have options for assembly methods.

Before the Domino 500 was available in the USA I had used them several times during visits to Europe. Of course those all had the pins, as did my original Domino 500. I do not recall participating in any of the Festool on-line groups before buying my second Domino 500 a year or so later. So I had not read about the pins vs paddles debate. However, my dealer did tell me that Festool had made a design change, so all the Domino 500 he had in stock were the then new kind with paddles.

Since I had hardly ever used the pins to register from the edge of a part, and never from mortise to mortise, I did not feel the design change would bother me. During the years since I am productive with both machines. In my shop my frame/door maker uses the Domino more than the rest of us. He uses his personal Domino 500, which he had pre-ordered so it has pins. He has tried mine and others with the paddles, but really prefers the pin version.

During several Festool classes when we have used the Domino all have had paddles. My suggestion to those buying their first Domino is to not go to special effort to find a used pins Domino. Of course if you own a pins Domino and love it, then you might want to find another as a spare.

Hmmm, I think I read that the Lamello can use some specially designed smaller biscuits than your average  biscuit joiner, but I'm having a hard time believing they're all that much thinner than the Domino 4mm tenons.

This is the first thing that came into the memory. I used to use a DeWalt