DeformedTree said:
My impression is when Festool discontinues, it means the product line is gone. If they were bringing a replacement, they would have announced something first and the old would slowly go away.
It's possible that new safety regulations gave them similar problems (as with the CMS-TS) for the OF setup, so they had to change things. Same is likely for the CMS-PS plate where the blade extends upwards, without any protection, from where you're likely to collapse onto when having a cardiovascular event.
My guesses:
Something sawstop will replace the TS part, fixed inside a table similar to what they demonstrated the last months.
The CMS-BS-120 didn't seem to sell that well at all.
Likely history.
The PS plate can be OK for certain things but a bandsaw is way superior in both functionality and price/performance unless you need to saw inside holes.
Likely history.
And we have to admit that the CMS-OF is a quite dated design that had been surpassed by many, if not most, other available router tables in both in functionality and price/performance.
Possibly a new dedicated table, or history and 'go buy shaper'.
As it's Festool this dosn't impact availability of spare parts, so the ones that already have one will likely not be shafted
that hard as with other suppliers when these drop a product. While it might not be good that the
current CMS goes away without further information... I understand the reasoning behind it (desperately needing an update, both for security legislation and usability/precision) - we'll see what will happen.
