mino
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Hello, two questions/queries. Was not sure where to place them, please move as applicable if the wrong section.
1) Is there a place where the historical Festool catalogs can be downloaded?
/I am fine with a site asking registration. Not much fine with the various paid PDF repos which charge serious bucks per document which they scraped for free./
DE versions /presumably the most complete for historicals/ and the US versions would be the most useful I presume.
2) If there is no such place, would this forum accept hosting such stuff, possibly in some posts/threads dedicated to it?
It should not be so much data overall, a couple gigs at most for the PDFs at least, and it can be forum-membership-walled for download so that it is not scraped too much.
I guess the biggest concern - people asking for stuff no longer available - can be addressed but explicit label that the content is shared for historical purposes. This is difficult to impossible to ensure on a general web so I understand why the catalogs are withdrawn there as could confuse.
Background:
It is sometimes difficult to find available/compatible accesories, what is compatible with what etc. for tools which are no longer actively marketed.
The issue is that often the parts and, especially, accessories are still available but there is no way to find the parts and map them to the tools. It is the trickiest with the accessories as those are not even in eKat.
1) Is there a place where the historical Festool catalogs can be downloaded?
/I am fine with a site asking registration. Not much fine with the various paid PDF repos which charge serious bucks per document which they scraped for free./
DE versions /presumably the most complete for historicals/ and the US versions would be the most useful I presume.
2) If there is no such place, would this forum accept hosting such stuff, possibly in some posts/threads dedicated to it?
It should not be so much data overall, a couple gigs at most for the PDFs at least, and it can be forum-membership-walled for download so that it is not scraped too much.
I guess the biggest concern - people asking for stuff no longer available - can be addressed but explicit label that the content is shared for historical purposes. This is difficult to impossible to ensure on a general web so I understand why the catalogs are withdrawn there as could confuse.
Background:
It is sometimes difficult to find available/compatible accesories, what is compatible with what etc. for tools which are no longer actively marketed.
The issue is that often the parts and, especially, accessories are still available but there is no way to find the parts and map them to the tools. It is the trickiest with the accessories as those are not even in eKat.
