FS Rapid Clamp

[Les]

How and when are you using the: FS-Rapid clamp . ??? The 1400mm clamping profile  
has been eliminated from the Festool site. The 800mm is the only one available, I guess. :-\

 

[Ned]

I'm not.  I've had the FS-Rapid for over a year and not used it once.  Don't have a clamping profile but expected to use the clamp with the guide rail.  Haven't yet.

 

[Mirko]

I plan to get the FS Rapid Clamp, combined with the guide rail, would make cutting down cabinets a breeze. you would'nt need to take them apart.
Or cutting the lid off a box, would be especially useful.

Mirko

 

[Dan Clark]

I bought one of these several months ago, thinking that I'd need it.  Then I couldn't figure out how to use it.  I kept it thinking that it's probably useful and don't want to give it up.  So... How to use the thing?    Pics please?

Dan

 

[mysterium]

I'm "one up" on Ned on this one.....  I've used the Rapid Clamp exactly once.  

In the catalog it "looks good" but seemed to have a PITA factor in actual use... Maybe it was how I has attempting to use it...  

I would seem that clamping "something" on the edge with the Rapid Clamp has it's place... But in practice clamping the rails to a surface with either the Clamps 489 570/489 571, or Quick Clamp 491 594 is the "norm" for me...  However most of the time I just set the rail & cut.

jim

 

[Corwin]

Me too... that is, had one about a year and used it once.  I think that Mirco has identified where it would be of most use...

would make cutting down cabinets a breeze. you wouldn't need to take them apart.  Or cutting the lid off a box, would be especially useful.

...just haven't needed to do this -- yet.

Corwin

 

[Dave Ronyak]

I don't have one yet, either, but I thought it might come in handy when you wanted to secure a guide rail and could not use the L-shaped clamps, e.g. to hold the guide rail against the face of a cabinet by having the FS clamps grip against the [finished] sides of the cabinet.  I can also envision using such side gripping clamps to hold a guide rail in position for routing inlay grooves.

 

[Mike_Chrest]

  I must be weird.  :-\ I use mine all the time. I cut down doors with it. I set the door on a piece of foam and fold the handle to the side. I wish the handle folded to the other side.
  I cut up sheet goods with it. You don't have to snug up two clamps. Just squeeze the handle like those Irwin "Quick Clamps". If you squeeze too hard the rail lifts a little(so easy does it).
  I still don't trust laying the guide on something without a clamp. I'm always afraid of bumping the the rail.
Mike

 

[Michael Kellough]

   I must be weird.  :-\I use mine all the time. I cut down doors with it. I set the door on a piece of foam and fold the handle to the side. I wish the handle folded to the other side.
   I cut up sheet goods with it. You don't have to smug up two clamps. Just squeeze the handle like those Irwin "Quick Clamps". If you squeeze too hard the rail lifts a little(so easy does it).
   I still don't trust laying the guide on something without a clamp. I'm always afraid of bumping the the rail.
Mike

Squeezing too hard was my problem. When I saw the rail raise up I just stopped using the rapid clamp and went back to the regular sliding bar clamps. Since then I've gotten comfortable using the guide rail to work without any clamps except when cutting steep bevels. Maybe now I'd be able to use the Rapid clamp properly.

 

[micklen]

Hi
If anybody have the clamping T track just laying and collecting dust the would I be interested to buy it.

I haven't seen them in Europe. Tried to google it buy nothing of value came up.

Can you use the for glue kitchen benches together?

//Carl