Can a FS22 and MFT800 replace a CMS completely?

[Toller]

I feel a bit silly asking this here; after all, most insist a FS22 will replace a table saw...

But I mean REALLY.  The only way I could squeeze a MFT800 in my workshop (I already have the FS22...) is to get rid of my CMS. 
I know it will do everything and much more, but will it do it as easily?  If you want to cut a stick to 76 degrees on a CMS, you just set it, cut, and set back to 90 degrees.  It will take all of 15 seconds.  Is it that easy on the MFT?

I suppose one way to ask it that is politically correct; is it fair to say that no one with a MFT will be buying a kapex?

 

[Steve Jones]

Speaking as someone without a clue what an FS22 is....

(And a little hazy on the CMS too, come to think of it) - we're protected from dangerous tools like those by an organisation that has inflicted itself on us in order to protect us from ourselves - we live in a FREE country.

Now what was I doing in this thread - oh, yes - The MFT is great for angle cutting in flat stock,  Limitations are a very short (vertically) fence maybe 12mm or so and the requirement to lay the rail on top of your workpiece - of course that means it's great for cutting wider pieces than possible on any miter saw.

but for any kind of molding I expect to be joining the lines for the Kapex (Except the lines will be clear by the time I save up for mine, maybe NEXT year (sigh)

 

[Toller]

So your opinion is that I would still need the CMS?

 

[semenza]

Hi,

    I am pretty  sure from context by CMS you mean compound miter saw. Just a note for clarity Festool makes a CMS which is a different animal compact module system.  I think that you will probably want the miter saw along with the MFT. A miter saw is much handier for quickly cutting stuff up and cutting angles up to its width limits.  This is of course not knowing how well the MFT3 will workout.  I think others will be able to chimb in with more detail for you.

Seth

 

[Steveo48]

For molding, ANY decent miter saw is going to be a heck of a lot faster than a circular saw and the MFT.  Heck, a good miter box with a sharp back saw might be faster. 

I still have my old B&D MS I got by sheer accident in 1985 ( I was supposed to get a free T-Shirt, got the saw instead, I never complained ) and still use it for decks and framing.

It's faster even for just using it to accurately cross cut.

 

[billybokay]

You can't  do crown on an MFT

 

[Fred West]

I am sure that I am just being stupid here but what the heck is the FS22? Fred

 

[Loren Hedahl]

I think you could do crown on an MFT, but it sure wouldn't be handy or efficient.

You'd be getting some mental exercise using compound miter tables.

Might keep you mentally sharp into very old age.

Might also keep the molding outfits profitable, with all the waste you might generate.

I think I would stay with your CMS.  In fact, I love my old Makita CMS except for the sawdust is spews everywhere.

 

[Michael Kellough]

I think you could do crown on an MFT, but it sure wouldn't be handy or efficient.

I agree. I posted a plan for making a jig to cut crown molding flat with a Festool circular saw and guide rail at the old Yahoo forum (but that seems to be totally gone now). You wouldn't even need an MFT which (because of the limitations in the way the head swivels) would make it even more difficult to cut crown flat.

I know it would work but I never tried it, I have a perfectly good (at least until the Kapex arrives) SCMS.

 

[Toller]

Speaking as someone without a clue what an FS22 is....

(And a little hazy on the CMS too, come to think of it) )

I mistyped; meant TS55.  A CMS is a compound miter saw.