HK85 Circular Saw with customised grooving attachment

[jt073]

This guy’s YouTube channel is high quality and very instructive.  His latest video shows a custom made grooving block for the grooving attachment on the HK85 saw=share

This led me to check out the HK85 properly (thank you Peter Parfitt videos) =share

So - now I have decided I need the HK85 plus plus.  I have a couple of questions at this point:

-  (This may be a UK-specific question) - does anyone know what the actual power rating of the motor is - maybe it is of academic interest only, but there is prominent repeated emphasis of it being 2300w power, whereas the manual states it as 1900w.

-  I have a TS75 already and a TSC55 that I find complementary - any views on whether I need to keep the TS75 if when I get the HK85?

Cheers

 

[Roachmill]

Mine has 2300 on the body of it so I'd go with that. I have the 75 but rarely use it given the extra power and depth of the 85.

The Festool cutter block is awesome (I don't use that word very often) in use. Pretty clean cuts except for blowing out the back of a cut but a sacrificial backer mitigates that. The main down side to it us, if you want to pack the saw in a systainer, you have to take the block and guarding off every damned time.

Ollie and his channel are a great resource indeed. His custom beading block is an excellent idea and Festool have missed a trick not making one similar. Time saved, speed and ease of use would pay for a block like this PDQ me thinks.

 

[mrboult]

I have the TS55 and HKC55. The operation differences between the two are the same as between the two you are talking about.

Short answer is that the HK85 can do all the TS75 does and more.

Longer answer is that the DC will be a little less good. The off side of the cut has no splinter guard facility. And using them on the rails is more ’clunky’, as in if you don’t slide the HK in from the end of the rail to start cutting you have to raise the plunge, pull back the blade guard and perform the slightly less refined plunge. . . It’s all perfectly fine and easy, but would become a bit frustrating by comparison if repeated over and over