Kapex delivered

[Mickey]

;D Its' arrived and really  8)...... build like a M1 tank. Even if you don't need one get one, it has a tremendous feel to it, just like driving your first Porche!

One thing to note when you order, add a D36 antistatic hose to the order if you don't have a spare. Kapex accepts both D27 and D36 hoses, but D36 is recommended in the manual (but I can't find it reference in the brochure). Fortunately I had one in my cleaning kit.

Yes, both the laser guides are adjustable... just had to fiddle even though it was perfect out of the box.

Bye for now
M

 

[brandon.nickel]

I can't help it, but I've had one for 20 years...  It's Porsche.  Pronounced Por-sha. 

I tried to resist, but failed...

 

[richard.selwyn]

I'm looking forward to getting a Kapex, but if its going to be like first time I drove a 911 I'm worried - it scared me ****less.  I know that they are now very user friendly (like the Kapex?), but jumping into one 25 years ago I can't say I felt instantly reassured.  More like having a big rucksack on your back on top of a mountain (in a gale?)  I hope its not just envy, because while I can just about run to a Kapex, I could never afford a Porsche!

 

[Jerry Work]

Well, I guess it is only the age group represented here by John L. and me that would equate first Porsche experience with 356s, not the later 911 series.  Having owned both for a long time (none now however) I can attest that the first experience was a life altering ride.  I was 16 when a VW dealer opened in my small town.  I had only read about them and their "strange" cousin Porsche, when I walked into the dealership.  There sat a white pre-A 356 coupe.  How could that little thing be the giant killer I had read about in the B&W auto mags of the day?  I was convinced my 47 Merc convertible with the 3 Stromberg 97s would dust it off at the first stop light.  Innocently I asked the dealer if I could take it out for a spin.  He said, "sure" and tossed the keys.  (Can you imagine that happening today?!)  I got in, drove it off of the show room and onto the street.  My life was never the same again.  Suddenly I understood the difference between brute force and sophisticated precision without even mounthing any of those words.  I'm sure I looked like a deer in the headlights when I returned the car and reluctantly climbed back into my led sled hatching a plan to save my money to acquire one of those things one day.  I did years later shortly out of graduate school, a white 1960 356 B cab.  The first drive was like a continuation of the drive that day at age 16.  From there, the air cooled Porsches remained a part of my life for the same reason I am so high on Festool offerings - sophisticated precision.  Are they all perfect?  Do the bugs not stick to the wooden prop?  Nope, no more than the Porsche offerings being all perfect.  But, they are uniformly better than their competitor's offerings and they let me do better quality work, faster so I can constantly lower my prices while still enjoying a good return on my time and investment.  That is good enough for me.

Jerry

 

[brandon.nickel]

I agree, Jerry.  My car (1983 911SC) has 220,000 miles on it and is still going strong.  The quality of the engineering work (like Festool) really makes you appreciative.  I can change 4 sets of brake pads in under 10 minutes.  Try that in a US-built car.  (Why should I have to remove the calipers to change the pads?).  Someday when I have more room in the garage (and much more time on my hands), I'd like to pick up one of those 356s and practice my welding.  Most of the ones that are "affordable" are total rust-buckets.  I'll also get to see how my RO150 does on automotive paint work. 

 

[Matthew Schenker]

;D Its' arrived and really  8)...... build like a M1 tank. Even if you don't need one get one, it has a tremendous feel to it, just like driving your first Porche!

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Yes, both the laser guides are adjustable... just had to fiddle even though it was perfect out of the box.

Bye for now
M

So, where are the photos?  Show us what it looked like upon delivery.  Show us what it looked like when you used it for the first project.

Matthew

 

[Mickey]

Been busy with the new house over the weekend... but here are the photo's at last

Cut some oak at 45% to see how accurate the unit was on delivery, the box was perpectly square.... not bad

Mike

 

[Dave Ronyak]

... From there, the air cooled Porsches remained a part of my life for the same reason I am so high on Festool offerings - sophisticated precision.  Are they all perfect?  Do the bugs not stick to the wooden prop?  Nope, no more than the Porsche offerings being all perfect.  But, they are uniformly better than their competitor's offerings and they let me do better quality work, faster so I can constantly lower my prices while still enjoying a good return on my time and investment.  That is good enough for me.

Jerry

Jerry,

Did you happen to know a man having as his first name "Henry" with the last name "Ford?"  I recall he became embattled with his stockholders and board of directors because he kept lowering his prices on his cars.

I'm envious of those of you who got to drive Porsches long ago and for many years.  My first and only drive was about 4 years ago in Germany - in a 911 with the owner sitting shotgun, for about 2 hours beginning on an autobahn [at speeds up to 255 kph], then on ever narrower country roads, then back to its parking spot in Deichmannhaus across the street from Koln's Hauptbahnhof and Dom.  It definitely gave me whole new perspectives on precision and control in a machine and now required by the driver.  And even greater respect for German engineering and precision and quality of manufacture.  There are 3 German cars in my household now, but none is a Porsche.  So Festool became a natural.

 

[Jerry Work]

Hi David,

The Ford story is most ineresting.  He not only kept reducing the price of his cars as production became more efficient, he also correctly guessed that if he raised the wages he paid to his employees they would become car buyers too.  His focus was first on his customer's interests, then on his employee's interests knowing that if he kept this order his ownership interests would be well served.  It was only many decades later when the people running Ford mixed those up and put ownership interest ahead of customer and employee interests that Ford started the long slide down the slippery slope to oblivion.  I certainly hope that they can recover in time and return to the founder's order of priority.

Jerry

... From there, the air cooled Porsches remained a part of my life for the same reason I am so high on Festool offerings - sophisticated precision.  Are they all perfect?  Do the bugs not stick to the wooden prop?  Nope, no more than the Porsche offerings being all perfect.  But, they are uniformly better than their competitor's offerings and they let me do better quality work, faster so I can constantly lower my prices while still enjoying a good return on my time and investment.  That is good enough for me.

Jerry

Jerry,

Did you happen to know a man having as his first name "Henry" with the last name "Ford?"  I recall he became embattled with his stockholders and board of directors because he kept lowering his prices on his cars.

I'm envious of those of you who got to drive Porsches long ago and for many years.  My first and only drive was about 4 years ago in Germany - in a 911 with the owner sitting shotgun, for about 2 hours beginning on an autobahn [at speeds up to 255 kph], then on ever narrower country roads, then back to its parking spot in Deichmannhaus across the street from Koln's Hauptbahnhof and Dom.  It definitely gave me whole new perspectives on precision and control in a machine and now required by the driver.  And even greater respect for German engineering and precision and quality of manufacture.  There are 3 German cars in my household now, but none is a Porsche.  So Festool became a natural.