Have 5 festool vacs. All garages broken

[PA floor guy]

This is very irritating.  I have 4 minis, everyone has the garage completely broken off. My 26 is now cracked and missing parts of the plastic. What am I missing here. I travel with these vacs, but don't abuse them at all.  These vacs are to expensive to be breaking at a rapid rate.    What am I missing?  None of these vacs are even 3 years old yet. 

 

[duburban]

cheap plastic and poor design. your not missing anything. mine are broken also.

 

[rmwarren]

In my case the front lip of the garage, which is the natural "handle" for for lifting and muscling it around, is broken off.

My [2cents] is that they should have molded in a couple ribs or a lip and it would likely have prevented the problem. Design error.

RMW

 

[Tyler Ernsberger]

I started filling the underside of my hose garages with epoxy.  This helps out a lot.  The plastic is very brittle and breaks very easily.  The best part is that the replacement garage for the midi is $70. 

 

[Paul G]

  None of these vacs are even 3 years old yet.

Warranty repair?

Even so they shouldn't breaking in the first place, especially at their price point. It's not the first time I've read about it here.

 

[Christopher Fitch]

I started filling the underside of my hose garages with epoxy.  This helps out a lot.  The plastic is very brittle and breaks very easily.  The best part is that the replacement garage for the midi is $70.

Neither of mine are broken. I'll have to try the epoxy idea...I've done that before on other things with success.

 

[duburban]

I started filling the underside of my hose garages with epoxy.  This helps out a lot.  The plastic is very brittle and breaks very easily.  The best part is that the replacement garage for the midi is $70.

isn't that a lot of epoxy? and weight? i can't remember how much space is in there to fill but i think its significant.

 

[TomGadwa1]

Maybe try a carport instead!

 

[bail]

Mine is broken on my ct 26.
Festool should re-design these and offer replacements

 

[Tyler Ernsberger]

I started filling the underside of my hose garages with epoxy.  This helps out a lot.  The plastic is very brittle and breaks very easily.  The best part is that the replacement garage for the midi is $70.

isn't that a lot of epoxy? and weight? i can't remember how much space is in there to fill but i think its significant.

Sorry I should have phrase that better. I take a brush and paint epoxy on the underside of the garage to reinforce all the webbing. It does use a little bit of epoxy but epoxy is cheaper than a new hose garage

 

[antss]

Might not hurt to lay in some Fiberglas tape or cloth into the epoxy while you're at it.

I'm thinking a carbon fiber garage is the ticket. How may of you want to pre-order one ?

 

[ben_r_]

cheap plastic and poor design. your not missing anything. mine are broken also.

Exactly.

 

[AlexThePalex]

It's just made of the wrong plastic. They should redesign it with another plastic that can handle everyday stress better.

 

[PA floor guy]

Maybe if festool is reading this, they will send me 5 new garages, this is just nonsense. Its literally like 2800 dollars worth of vacs, but they look like 10 dollar junk because there all completely horrible looking. I hate even taking them into a customers house.

 

[Davej]

I had the same problem, sent it back under warranty and got a new tloc top.
The plastic is definitely not up to the task and I wouldn't buy another one purely because of the poor quality plastic.
Dave

 

[andyman]

I find the plastic on the switch plate not up to much either

 

[Summerson]

Have to CTL MIDI, both garages broke. Fixed both, one have broken again and also the switch plate. Very weak plastic compared to the grey plastic on the same machine. Also back of my Kapex 120 seems to be the same material, a pice just fell off.
Otherwise my Festool tools has held together really nice. Don't know what Hilti housings are made of, not plastic. Maybe glass fiber. Never broke a Hilti.

 

[Holmz]

Maybe if festool is reading this, they will send me 5 new garages, this is just nonsense. Its literally like 2800 dollars worth of vacs, but they look like 10 dollar junk because there all completely horrible looking. I hate even taking them into a customers house.

After reading and Hearing about FT quality I got a vacuum.
(it needed to be sent back.)

There are some good things, but generally the optimistic talk exceeds the reality.

The fibreglass or c/f garage would be a winner idea

 

[PA floor guy]

Tyler.  Are you reading this. Can you offer a solution.  This is a serious issue.

 

[bkharman]

What about using some sort of foam instead of epoxy. Even if it is dense, it will be light and may help.

I have never had any issues with my 26, but that doesn't mean much. I do know that plastic is very brittle and too thin for my liking. Anyone make something out of pine or similar?

Cheers. Bryan.

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