Festool Recon Topic (compiled)

[slavi.yordanov]

I have received my purchases yesterday. I have order a metric TSC55, T18+3-E and a Domino 500.

Domino is hard to tell apart from a brand new unit, no scratches at all. It looks to be the latest version with the updated dust port.

The T18 has a few minor scratches on the drill and batteries, clearly a returned unit.

My disappointment is with the TSC55. It's in great shape, but it came with the ancient 5.2 batteries and TCL3 chargers. The thing is that it was actually more expensive than the current model listed on the recon site with 5.2 BT batteries. I really don't care for metric or imperial, but that was the only one available when I had the chance to actually buy something. One would think that the older model would be cheaper than the newer, but I guess it's my fault for assuming that they will not send outdated batteries.

 

[Thompmd]

I was reading through another recon thread and saw that (dynaglide if I remember) had a pic showing 12 pages of Recon items for sale?? How do I access a list?? I’ve only ever been able to see 1 listing and 1 only? Recently I only see the wow that didn’t last long page.

TIA

 

[Dr. P. Venkman]

I have found thathttps://www.festoolrecon.com/collections/all shows a similar list, but has the out-of-stock items greyed out.

As best I can tell, the items available when it goes live are the in-stock items that are not greyed out. What they have on hand can change, obviously, but you can at least get a sense of what they’ve got.

Can’t remember who first posted that link (thanks), but I had a couple items I was keeping an eye on, and they greyed out at the same time they stopped appearing for sale.

 

[Thompmd]

Ok, makes sense now, thank you guys. I haven’t followed closely but must be why guys are asking about the randomness that they go live .

Thanks again

 

[DeformedTree]

One hour.  The Recon sites workouts are really building up its endurance.

Someone bought the LEX 3

 

[Cheese]

Someone bought the LEX 3

Well that's interesting, ALL of the LEX sanders are no longer available on the US website, from Festool:
"Air Sander LEX 3 150/3
Item number 691154
This item is no longer available."

Speaking of interesting...I wonder where all of those C/T 12 drills and C/T 15 drills are coming from?

The C/T 12 was last available in 2013.

The C/T 15 was last available in 2015.

 

[DeformedTree]

Someone bought the LEX 3

Well that's interesting, ALL of the LEX sanders are no longer available on the US website, from Festool:
"Air Sander LEX 3 150/3
Item number 691154
This item is no longer available."

Speaking of interesting...I wonder where all of those C/T 12 drills and C/T 15 drills are coming from?

The C/T 12 was last available in 2013.

The C/T 15 was last available in 2015.

I'm guessing you felt bad for the LEX 3 and you gave it a home.

I think one of the biggest questions is simply where do the tools that don't fall into the 30 day return tools come from.  Anything sold in the past year I get, between covid, and normal shipping, checks, etc t get it up.

There is no way they are just finding these randomly in corners.  I doubt they come from dealers who had them in the corners of their shops.  So do they build them up from corpses that come in?  Not sure how that works to tell someone it can't be repaired, but then merge dead ones into one? and sell it.  It's also a lot of work for a little gain. Maybe new repair staff trains on bringing the dead back to life.

Metric units haven't been sold since like 2017?

I think it's cool the stuff shows up.  Maybe some of them are from dealers who went out of business and had this stuff in their inventory.

 

[Cheese]

I'm guessing you felt bad for the LEX 3 and you gave it a home.

Nope...but actually the LEX I was considering was the small LEX 3 77. Just a great little air sander but it needs 10 CFM @ 90 psi to run. Along with an 80 gallon tank.

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[rvieceli]

[member=44099]Cheese[/member] please figure out how I can put a LEX3 - 77 PAD on my RO90.

Ron

 

[josiahjlee]

Someone bought the LEX 3

Well that's interesting, ALL of the LEX sanders are no longer available on the US website, from Festool:
"Air Sander LEX 3 150/3
Item number 691154
This item is no longer available."

Speaking of interesting...I wonder where all of those C/T 12 drills and C/T 15 drills are coming from?

The C/T 12 was last available in 2013.

The C/T 15 was last available in 2015.

I'm guessing you felt bad for the LEX 3 and you gave it a home.

I think one of the biggest questions is simply where do the tools that don't fall into the 30 day return tools come from.  Anything sold in the past year I get, between covid, and normal shipping, checks, etc t get it up.

There is no way they are just finding these randomly in corners.  I doubt they come from dealers who had them in the corners of their shops.  So do they build them up from corpses that come in?  Not sure how that works to tell someone it can't be repaired, but then merge dead ones into one? and sell it.  It's also a lot of work for a little gain. Maybe new repair staff trains on bringing the dead back to life.

Metric units haven't been sold since like 2017?

I think it's cool the stuff shows up.  Maybe some of them are from dealers who went out of business and had this stuff in their inventory.

My thought is these older tools come from service tools where the price quoted to repair is not worth it to the owner. I suppose a fair number of those get returned to the owner, but I would assume that some owners don’t want the “totaled” tool shipped back. Festool Service can repair these units at cost and sell as a Recon tool for a small profit. Just a guess.

 

[lineweight.nyc]

Looks like they've taken everything down. Just refreshed and only thing available on the collections is the $0.01 offering.

Is everyone else seeing the same?

 

[DeformedTree]

Looks like they've taken everything down. Just refreshed and only thing available on the collections is the $0.01 offering.

Is everyone else seeing the same?

Yeah, could be they are going back to normal mode now.  They cleared the warehouse out enough they can use the foosball table again.

All the tools that didn't find a home will be put down now.

 

[beldmade]

I ordered something on the weekend and they shipped it to the wrong address. They used a previous address I had used instead of the one on the order. I know someone else had something similar happen too? What a huge mistake. My sander is now 5 hours away.  [mad]

 

[DynaGlide]

I ordered something on the weekend and they shipped it to the wrong address. They used a previous address I had used instead of the one on the order. I know someone else had something similar happen too? What a huge mistake. My sander is now 5 hours away.  [mad]

That was me. Sorry that happened to you. I got lucky. The person who received it opened the box just enough to find my information and called me to pick it up. I only live 15min away.

Festool was going to send a replacement out however. But this shouldn't happen in the first place.

 

[Bugsysiegals]

I ordered something on the weekend and they shipped it to the wrong address. They used a previous address I had used instead of the one on the order. I know someone else had something similar happen too? What a huge mistake. My sander is now 5 hours away.  [mad]

That was me. Sorry that happened to you. I got lucky. The person who received it opened the box just enough to find my information and called me to pick it up. I only live 15min away.

Festool was going to send a replacement out however. But this shouldn't happen in the first place.

I'm surprised they'd send a replacement ... it must not have been a new Kapex!!

 

[DynaGlide]

I ordered something on the weekend and they shipped it to the wrong address. They used a previous address I had used instead of the one on the order. I know someone else had something similar happen too? What a huge mistake. My sander is now 5 hours away.  [mad]

That was me. Sorry that happened to you. I got lucky. The person who received it opened the box just enough to find my information and called me to pick it up. I only live 15min away.

Festool was going to send a replacement out however. But this shouldn't happen in the first place.

I'm surprised they'd send a replacement ... it must not have been a new Kapex!!

They're the ones sending to the wrong address. It's on them to make it right.

 

[Christopher Fitch]

Very live - just got an AGC-18...and they changed how the site looks now. I like it alot better.

 

[Christopher Fitch]

Upthread he mentioned a website service that monitors pages for changes. Problem is that you have to pay for rapid monitoring (or at least that's what it said to me).

Another option (if you run Linux), is to setup a shell script that performs a very crude check - something like this (offered without any support or comment):

# monitor-webpage.sh - Monitors a web page for changes
# sends an email notification if the page listed in the URL changes
# Run it in a shell script that you leave up (or you can setup a cron job)

USERNAME=""
PASSWORD=""
# Change this to whatever page you want
URL="https://www.festoolrecon.com/collections/black-friday/products/cordless-angle-grinder-agc-18-115-li-eb-basic"

for (( ; ; )); do
    echo `date`" Checking ${URL}"
    mv ${HOME}/tmp/new.html ${HOME}/tmp/old.html 2> /dev/null
    curl $URL -L --compressed -s > ${HOME}/tmp/new.html
    DIFF_OUTPUT="$(diff ${HOME}/tmp/new.html ${HOME}/tmp/old.html)"
    if [ "0" != "${#DIFF_OUTPUT}" ]; then
    echo `date` " Changed...send email"
       

# *** This is option 1 for sending the mail - if you want to use this uncomment
# the next four lines and make sure to set your username and password above
# also comment out the
    #sendEmail -f $USERNAME -s smtp.gmail.com:587 \
    #    -xu $USERNAME -xp $PASSWORD -t $USERNAME \
    #    -o tls=yes -u "Web page changed" \
    #    -m "Visit it at $URL"
# End Option 1   
   
# *** This is option 2 for sending the email   
# Must have no indentation for the mail command   
mail -s "Web Page changed" your-email@gmail.com << EOM
Web Page ${URL} changed
.
EOM
# End option 2

    fi
   
    echo `date` " Sleeping 3 minutes..."
    sleep 3m
done

 

[GoingMyWay]

Interesting that they're only posting 1 tool at a time.  The RO125 is now available as of 9:16AM EST.

 

[Christopher Fitch]

Now TS55.  I guess they've gone back to 1 tool at a time.

It appears to be that way now. I did notice that all links from the collections will end up pointing at the main page now and whatever tool is active (if any).