Festool router a good dedicated laminate trimmer?

[Marco NC]

Well,
This being my first post here, Im sure I will catch flack but, you guys sound like a bunch of kids. I work day in day out on a construction site and I can't remember anything like this since grammar school. Im sorry but goodness gracious. I only post over at JLC and I never read anything like this (not implying its a better forum), even when the EZ guys drop in and turn everything upside down.
I know I have no sort of "inside information" on this site, but as someone who has just started to come here again, Im somewhat turned off to both forums. Why not let it go? Im sure there are going to be lots of, well he said, she said, but is it really that important? Why not just continue with what this forum was intended instead of the STUPID BANTER. Talk tools, don't talk feelings or accusations. Just LET IT GO! Its a lot easier to not care than it is to get stressed out over something that, lets face it, will be forgotten in a couple weeks.

Now someone tell me if that new Festool router(the small one) would be good dedicated laminate trimmer....

 

[nickao]

Marco JLC deletes anything like this before you could read it in a blink. The administrator here tries not to delete. That's the difference. All families fight and bicker.

The new router is way more than a dedicated laminate router, it would definitley do that job easily, but why get such a nice router for a limited operation? If you are only needing a laminate trimmer or router there are many for 100.00 to 150.00 that will be great not the least the "Bosch "colt". Of course the festool will excel as a laminate router.

 

[Marco NC]

Nick,
I currently own the bosch colt, porter cable (production style laminate trimmer), dewalt install kit and the festool 1010 I believe it is. Im looking for dust collection. I do commercial construction installs and need less clean up. The Festool 1010 is the best I own but I want better. I posted this in the main section of this forum, sorry for the hijack.

Oh, by the way. JLC doesn't delete post. They will close them but only after the topic has been COMPLETELY discussed. For instance if your ever there, and Im not saying you should go there instead, do a search for EZ. Its a good read. loads of entertainment.

If you consider this to be a family, I would offer the advice that has always worked for my wife and myself, Never go to sleep angry! No matter what, resolve it quickly and let it go. If not, it will tear you apart.

Thanks again for the router info.

Marco

 

[Steve Jones]

Marco,

I used a Colt for a while and found it to be too messy (no attempt or provision for dust control). So I borrowed the small Festool router...

It has excellent dust control, and is mostly very well designed and beautifully made, however I decided against buying it for the following reasons (Brace yourself Nick, here comes some Festool critisism - watch and see if I get slammed).

The thing requires a very short bit, if you use the base intended for trimming the space for the length if the cutting surface is tiny, I had to dig through my bits collection to find something that would fit so if you want to trim 3/4" material to finish plywood edges it just wont do it.

Second, even though it's got some fancy micro-adjustable depth control, it's finicky to adjust, it seems to go from leaving some edge banding to be sanded off to cutting through the top veneer on plywood in one notch of adjustment. It was cleaner for trimming edge banding (no offcut strips to cleanup) but way more hassle and saved me no time over the tacky plastic manual trimmer I was using  (and continue to use).

 

[nickao]

Yes the dust flies all over that's for sure.