Fein to Festool Hose End
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JayStPeter
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Piece of cake, buy a Festool hose and plug it into your Fein. Don't bother to buy the anti-static hoses as your vac doesn't work with it. The Festool hoses plug into all vacs. Fits my Fein and Craftsman vacs.
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Stock fein hose fits ts55 fine. Fits rotex, domino, etc. with the festool adapter; part # escapes me; cost about $12 six months ago. Fein hose is longer and more flexible than the stock green antistatic festool hose. BTW, the fein hose fits the festool vac and vice versa.
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Zaphod said:
There is another way to couple your stock Fein hose to Festools that have a round dust collection outlet - place a rubber O-ring in one of the grooves of the Festool outlet and it will grip the ID of the Fein tool end fitting. I have both a Fein Turbo II and a Festool CT 22E with 27 mm and 36 mm AS hoses. I used the Fein and its hose (with its hard plastic tool end fitting) with my RO 125 for ~ 18 months before acquiring a CT 22E with a Deltex 93 which has an oval dust collection outlet. I confirm the interchangeeabililty of the Fein and Festool hoses in each other brands vacuum, and their vacuum tools such as floor sweep nozzles, brushes, etc. Overall, I prefer Fein's designs for these vacuum accessories although I have both brands.
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In looking thru their online catalog I did not see any mention of an anti-static hose.
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Fein doesn't make an anti-static that I know of. I have the TII and it pretty much always sits under my MFT for use with the TS75 and various sanders. I also like the standard Fein hose better than the regular green Festool hose. Also have both cleaning sets and like the Fein better. The Fein hose doesn't fit snug onto all the Festools (DS400) but close enough. Because of systainer stacking the CT has become my jobsite vac.
One of the best and cheapest solutions is to buy the Festool 27mm hose end (487071 @ about $17.00). It won't fit your Fein hose as is but it has three pieces to it. If you remove the hose retaining ring and pull out the interior threaded ring you can then re-insert the retaining ring. You will find that your Fein hose end will now slide into the adapter and fit perfectly. The retaining ring will pop off when a screwdriver tip is pushed into one of the two detent windows that you can see from the ouside. Takes about one minute and looks like it belonged there all along by design.
At this point you cqn adapt your fein to any of the Festool tools for which the 27mm hose is designed.
At this point you cqn adapt your fein to any of the Festool tools for which the 27mm hose is designed.
The fein hose is a different diameter than the festool 27mm hose and the festool end will not fit. I tried it. bummer. I do like the fein hose. but the festool hose end in rubber is much prefered over the hard plastic fein hose end. The fein hose works fein with the saws, OF1400, not the 1010, and will probably not work well with the sanders.
Eiji,
I think my solution above gives you the best of both worlds. You adapt the Festool hose end over the permanently mounted Fein end and remove it when you want or can use the Fein end as it always was. No mod to the Fein hose and very little additional bulk with the Festool hose end slipped on when used for a proprietary Festool fitting such as the OF1010 or Rotex.
I think my solution above gives you the best of both worlds. You adapt the Festool hose end over the permanently mounted Fein end and remove it when you want or can use the Fein end as it always was. No mod to the Fein hose and very little additional bulk with the Festool hose end slipped on when used for a proprietary Festool fitting such as the OF1010 or Rotex.
greg mann said:
I have done this but the assembly is a bit long and cumbersome. In the shop I use my turboI and fein hose with my TS75, turboIII with the Kapex, and CT22 with all my other festools. The TS75 and Kapex stay set up with their dedicated vacs. That saves a bit of time. For site work I prefer just to take the turboI and leave the other vacs. if I have to do alot of Kapex work Ill bring the CT22 along as well.
Eiji Fuller said:
Understood, Eiji, but you are using multiple DCs, so you pick and choose what is most elegant. For the record I do the same. Two CT22s and Three Feins, plus a Rigid(POS model) with a mini-cyclone give me plenty of options. I use the small Fein on the German Shepard because the fur fills my wife's Meile too quickly. Okay, now that I have engaged in shameless name-dropping, the point is that when you have multiple options you can decide how to mix and match easily. If you are trying to make one DC do everything and that one is a Fein, then the adapter makes a lot of sense.
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