Domino Change for 2009??

[jimwho]

I was looking through the 2009 catalog and there seems to be a difference in the Domino on page 122. The locating pins on the front seem to have been replaced with tabs. I am not sure how this would work or if it is just a picture that was used and there really are no changes. Anyone see this or know about it?

You can check the online PDF if you don't have a hard copy as yet of the new catalog.

Jim

 

[sw1211]

This change has been in the works since last year, http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=3428.0

 

[tbellemare]

The change is likely to take effect late Spring or early Summer in the States.

Tom

 

[gearup75]

    WOW...I got lucky for once.  Purchased the Domino yesterday, I got the pins ;D

 

[tallgrass]

what about repair work.will they fix it or will they swap out the pins, since this seems to be a patent infringement thing? I would like to think that i will be able to get spare parts. thoughts

 

[Eli]

should be able to get spares for about seven years?

 

[Forrest Anderson]

what about repair work.will they fix it or will they swap out the pins, since this seems to be a patent infringement thing? I would like to think that i will be able to get spare parts. thoughts

It wouldn't just be a matter of replacing the metal pins with plastic flip stops - the whole aluminium housing was modified to accommodate the change from pins to flip stops. That housing (called a "Bearer") is one of the largest components of the machine, and is the second most expensive single component at over 70GBP in the UK . You've then you've got the cost of the flip stops and springs on top of that, plus the labour of disassembling and re-assembling the housing, so it would be a pretty expensive process to retrospectively fit flip stops to every old-model Domino that came in for servicing or repair.

As regards availability of parts, Eli's correct - see my post and associated links at http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=3284.0 which confirms the 7 year spare-part availability policy in the UK and the USA.

Forrest

 

[jimwho]

Thanks for the heads up. I have been off the forum for about 7-8 months and did not catch this. I will go back and read and educate myself.

Jim

 

[tallgrass]

i know it would be expensive but it would be irritating if the change was compelled for legal reasons and you had no say, do the flippers index in a running fashion like the pins?

 

[Dixon Peer]

i know it would be expensive but it would be irritating if the change was compelled for legal reasons and you had no say, do the flippers index in a running fashion like the pins?

I know nothing about these "flippers", but you ask if they index in a running fashion like the pins.  I would hope they are better.  My Domino, and ones I have seen as demonstrators at shows, are not accurate for a line of dominos; they run out of alignment after a few plunges, even if you use the widest cut.  After about four plunges in each board, try to glue the boards up...no good.  I sent mine back to get this corrected, and it came back the same way.

 

[Dave Ronyak]

I use pencil markings to index my Domino mortices and to ensure that components that are supposed to go together will, and never have any problems, even if I cut all the mortices using the narrowest setting for the mortices.  The markings also help ensure I use the correct surface of the workpieces as a reference for positioning the Domino machine when cutting the mortices.

As you and others have noted, cummulative errors can and do occur when cutting a series of mortices when indexing each successive mortice off the preceding mortice.

Dave R.