Firstly, let me assure you, I am NOT trolling here.
I am looking to buy my first power tools (other than an electric drill and a bench drill press given to me by my father) and want to buy good quality. I work in solid wood and fairly large sections, hence I have been looking at the Festool HK 85. I resent Festools exorbitant pricing and I loathe their "Apple - Style" price fixing where no one will do deals (even if you plan to purchase a number of items). But I would forgive all this if I knew that (at a price) I was getting something well engineered, high quality, innovative and cut with high precision (I am looking to do lots of compound cuts).
But looking at these youtube videos, the internals, honestly don't seem to be anything special. I don't agree with all of his comments and I don't believe all the things that he points out are disadvantages, but bronze bushings? uncoated field windings? A blade lock that keys into the plastic fan blade?
To be honest I am unimpressed. If it is as bad as it seems then I can see myself springing some extra money for a Mafell KSS80 Ec. It would cost me $500 AUD more and I would have to import it myself (and change the plug) but I would happily do this if the quality was significantly better.
So please - fire away, flame me to a cinder, but if you seriously believe that the FESTOOL is high quality then please explain why you feel that way.
Thanks in advance and here are the youtube videos:
Moderator note ....... non-functional links have been removed. For a full read on this particular topic see this threadhttp://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-tool-reviews/ts55-teardown-on-youtube/msg412654/#msg412654 Also it was locked for a reason. [poke]
Seth
I am looking to buy my first power tools (other than an electric drill and a bench drill press given to me by my father) and want to buy good quality. I work in solid wood and fairly large sections, hence I have been looking at the Festool HK 85. I resent Festools exorbitant pricing and I loathe their "Apple - Style" price fixing where no one will do deals (even if you plan to purchase a number of items). But I would forgive all this if I knew that (at a price) I was getting something well engineered, high quality, innovative and cut with high precision (I am looking to do lots of compound cuts).
But looking at these youtube videos, the internals, honestly don't seem to be anything special. I don't agree with all of his comments and I don't believe all the things that he points out are disadvantages, but bronze bushings? uncoated field windings? A blade lock that keys into the plastic fan blade?
To be honest I am unimpressed. If it is as bad as it seems then I can see myself springing some extra money for a Mafell KSS80 Ec. It would cost me $500 AUD more and I would have to import it myself (and change the plug) but I would happily do this if the quality was significantly better.
So please - fire away, flame me to a cinder, but if you seriously believe that the FESTOOL is high quality then please explain why you feel that way.
Thanks in advance and here are the youtube videos:
Moderator note ....... non-functional links have been removed. For a full read on this particular topic see this threadhttp://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-tool-reviews/ts55-teardown-on-youtube/msg412654/#msg412654 Also it was locked for a reason. [poke]
Seth