After quite a bit of deliberation (w/myself), I've decided to jump into the Festool Pool, starting with the RO125 and the CT22 package. But I'm all about due diligence with what I buy, especially when it comes to dropping this much $$ on a sander...
Over the past few months I've noticed several topics concerning the CT22 not powering up properly and the system having to go back in to Festool for repair. I wouldn't be concerned if I'd only seen it brought up once, but there were enough to make me think twice about the order. Or maybe there weren't that many more, but because it is the dust extraction unit I was considering it stuck in my mind. In any case, I was wondering if a definite problem had been located and fixed and if I would get a CT22 w/out that problem if I were to order one today or if I would get a CT22 that might still have that known issue?
While trying to look up issues on the CT22, I started coming across problems people had with the RO125! A part of me is now concerned about the other half of what I wanted to order. Then again, a different part of me says, hey, you're looking at a discussion board where the people with the issues are most likely to post something vs. the much higher percentage of people who own the same tool and don't have any problems and aren't going to bother getting onto a discussion group to simply say their tool works as designed.
So are there any significant issues with the RO125 I should be wary of? Or are these extreme, not the norm, examples? I understand nothing is perfect in life and in a production batch of 1,000 sanders you're bound to end up with a few that might have issues.
I guess I have concerns because in my mind I equate Festool to Lie-Nielsen. Let me explain: If I buy an old Stanley #5 off of ebay, I expect to have to tune the plane and sharpen the blade to get it working the way I want. If I buy a plane from Lie-Nielsen, for the money I'm spending I expect the plane to make good curls right out of the box. Likewise, if I buy a Dewalt miter saw from Amazon and get a free 1/4 sheet sander with it, I'll expect it to work like a free 1/4 sheet sander (and not for very long, at that). But if I drop $360 on a Festool sander, I'll expect it to function pretty much at peak performance right out of the box, er, Systainer (hehe).
So if you can understand, I get a little concerned when I see people saying things like, "You need to run it for about 10 hours to break it in before it will start feeling like they say it should." For that price, I should have to run it for 10 minutes to break it in before it will start feeling like it is advertised.
Or is this just a case of people buying tools and NOT reading the instructions that come with them (where they would find the best way to run such-and-such tool is on this setting with this dust extractor)?
Over the past few months I've noticed several topics concerning the CT22 not powering up properly and the system having to go back in to Festool for repair. I wouldn't be concerned if I'd only seen it brought up once, but there were enough to make me think twice about the order. Or maybe there weren't that many more, but because it is the dust extraction unit I was considering it stuck in my mind. In any case, I was wondering if a definite problem had been located and fixed and if I would get a CT22 w/out that problem if I were to order one today or if I would get a CT22 that might still have that known issue?
While trying to look up issues on the CT22, I started coming across problems people had with the RO125! A part of me is now concerned about the other half of what I wanted to order. Then again, a different part of me says, hey, you're looking at a discussion board where the people with the issues are most likely to post something vs. the much higher percentage of people who own the same tool and don't have any problems and aren't going to bother getting onto a discussion group to simply say their tool works as designed.
So are there any significant issues with the RO125 I should be wary of? Or are these extreme, not the norm, examples? I understand nothing is perfect in life and in a production batch of 1,000 sanders you're bound to end up with a few that might have issues.
I guess I have concerns because in my mind I equate Festool to Lie-Nielsen. Let me explain: If I buy an old Stanley #5 off of ebay, I expect to have to tune the plane and sharpen the blade to get it working the way I want. If I buy a plane from Lie-Nielsen, for the money I'm spending I expect the plane to make good curls right out of the box. Likewise, if I buy a Dewalt miter saw from Amazon and get a free 1/4 sheet sander with it, I'll expect it to work like a free 1/4 sheet sander (and not for very long, at that). But if I drop $360 on a Festool sander, I'll expect it to function pretty much at peak performance right out of the box, er, Systainer (hehe).
So if you can understand, I get a little concerned when I see people saying things like, "You need to run it for about 10 hours to break it in before it will start feeling like they say it should." For that price, I should have to run it for 10 minutes to break it in before it will start feeling like it is advertised.
Or is this just a case of people buying tools and NOT reading the instructions that come with them (where they would find the best way to run such-and-such tool is on this setting with this dust extractor)?
I have had the CT22 and RO 150 for sometime now and put many, many hours on both. Not a single issue here. Fred
