Cutting Circles with Festool jigsaw

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john ferri

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I bought the festool accessory to cut circles with the jigsaw. Unlike the router trammel unit, this accessory has 4 holes designed as pivot points. The inner holes are marked 200, the outer ones 300. Does anyone know the intended use of these holes?

JF
 
Could it be 200 mm circles and 300 mm circles?

I have one but have never taken it out of the package yet.
 
Yup Kevin got it.

The blade is set back more in one machine ( I forget which) so the pivot point has to go away from the arm as well. If you put the pin in the wrong hole you get very strange looking circles (ask me how I know ::)).

Mike
 
Thanks for the clarification, I guess I didn't make the connection that the PS 2e means PS200. I think I ran into some serious trouble too--burnt wood, sway out, a Festool horror show.

Can anyone tell me why are there two holes for each model?

Still stupid.

JF
 
I made the same horrible circle...To embarrased to ask what I could be doing wrong.  I'm not sure which hole I used, but it had to be the wrong one... I cut a couple circles in 3/4 ply to make a rolling base for my dust collection barrel and I think I went though 5 blades...
 
This jig is designed to be used on either side of either saw, like Mike said.

The two sets of holes at the pivot are for the different saws, like Kevin said, because of the different blade-to-mounting distances.

Tom
 
Thank you all for the clarification. This weekend I'll try to think of a creative application that would require me to use the unit to cut circles from both sides of the saw. I hope I don't hurt my brain.

JF
 
Please try to remember speed/feed.

The MMC takes care of the speed of the blade but when using a new toyol, it's easy to lose track of why you're burning the wood.

Tom
 
Everybody, including me, has a tendency to assume that running the blade fast in wood is the best. If you see that you are burning, say, in maple, try slowing down the MMC speed for the same feed rate.

When using a new device, the tendency is to be tentative because of unfamiliarity. The more one uses something, the more familiar we get and the better the results.

If you're still getting used to a particular Festool (or other mfr's) configuration, consider slowing down the cutting speed (controlled by the MMC speed control) until you get comfortable.

That's all I was thinking...

Tom
 
I was cutting 3/4 ply and moving the saw slow.  I did have the blade speed setting on high.  My burning was from heat on the blade guides either from me not setting them correctly or because the blade was bending out of square putting pressure on one side.  The circle was about 25 inches in diameter.  The first 10 or 15 inches were fine then the blade started to cut out of square.  I tried different blades even some bosch blades.  I tried it with and without oscillation.  The only thing I'm not sure of is which hole I used on the centerpoin.  Now that I understand that I'm going to retry it.  I wouldn't think tha the centering hole would make that much difference on a large circle but maybe it does.  Also I'm assuming the oscillation should be turned off for circles.
 
Wayne,
  I leave the oscillation on all the time, except for cutting metal. The arcs I was cutting came out fine.
Mike
 
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