hello again yes mate was a very succesful day on a dreary monday morning met two german guys one was in control of all worldwide sales and the other chap was the chief engineer for festool. Very nice people bit intense but german lol and perfect english. So chatted for a good while pointed out what I considered to be the faults and the listened and took notes and pictures of everything. Then came out the precision measuring equipment made in Japan by the way i noted. first the lasers he explained the tolerances to me then measured them on my machine a small silence ensued then a slight look of embaresement it was out by quite a bit. once checked and altered he told me in the factory they should never need adjusting. next the compound cut 1.5mm ish over 260mm he wasn't happy at all by now so few other things like scrapping noises and although he convinced me that the was no engineering problem with this noise i explained that most people would prob upgrade to this machine from dewalt makita etc which dont make scraping noises so psycologicaly it may put you of a bit.
So after a bit he pulled out a brand new machine freshly made in germany for me we tested it with a trench cut half way through i stopped he looked at me i looked at the saw he looked down to find the lasers all over the place he walked off rang germany and halted all production of the kapex until he could fix this problem he also reckons that the main fence is out of alighnment by a fraction which is causing errors on compound cutting any way 5 hours later i get the use of a full ct70 bench saw for a very long demo (?2000 cost) my money back and the german guy as nice as he is has a large large headache did feel sorry for him. The table saw is brilliant by the way although very pricy
)attempting to put together as comprehensive and fair evaluation of the Kapex as I can for the interest and edification of "those enquiring minds who want to know."