covenant_cat
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The bad news is that you have to buy the useless folding tilt base to make it but on the good side you only need an additional six metric screws and a piece of 1/4 inch plexi glass and it's relatively easy to do.
1. First decide which way you want to push the saw i.e heaving the saw on the outside of your waist or facing the opposite way with the saw on the inside. I prefer having the saw on the inside. Basically hold the base in your hand with the hinge running with the length of your arm, I remove the clips from beneath the right shoe.
2. Next remove the screws from one side of the base plate (the side that will rest on the material to be cut)
3. Remove the plastic shoe and you will find two semicircular clips that hold the foot to the tilting mechanism.
4. Remove the clips.
5. Reattach the plastic shoe and you should find that the selected side will move independently and flop around. This is what you want.
6. Trace around the full area of the base and screw locations. Cut and drill out. Counter sink holes
7. Remove the screws from both sides of the folding feet being careful not to let the clips fall out from the side where they were left in place.
8. Place your newly prepared one piece plexiglas shoe and place it over the two original plastic feet (keeping them in place)
9. Take the longer screws and screw down the whole thing back together.
10. You should find that the plexiglass now spans the hinge and the action of the newly independent foot have essentially created one solid tilting surface when you turn the green knob. Try it.
The only drawbacks are: You cannot set the angle without messing around (who sets an angle when scribing baseboard?)
The base only tilts to one side, if you need it tilt both ways you have to buy two.
There is no dust extraction but i have an idea for that.
Last but not least you have to buy the crappy tilt base and it's not cheap.
I felt like a fool buying this saw as I held a trion before i got the carvex. I checked out the tilting base and foolled myself into thinking it could make beveled scribe cuts. I was going to return both items the next day. I sat in my basement until ten tinkering with the base until I found the solution. It's not ideal but it works. Festool dropped the ball there, they could make a plate that spans the hinge easy enough. There is a way to get the base to tilt both ways but it involves some grinding to remove three pieces of the blue barrel like part of the winding mechanism and recreating the two small clips but making them longer (an unthanking task)
1. First decide which way you want to push the saw i.e heaving the saw on the outside of your waist or facing the opposite way with the saw on the inside. I prefer having the saw on the inside. Basically hold the base in your hand with the hinge running with the length of your arm, I remove the clips from beneath the right shoe.
2. Next remove the screws from one side of the base plate (the side that will rest on the material to be cut)
3. Remove the plastic shoe and you will find two semicircular clips that hold the foot to the tilting mechanism.
4. Remove the clips.
5. Reattach the plastic shoe and you should find that the selected side will move independently and flop around. This is what you want.
6. Trace around the full area of the base and screw locations. Cut and drill out. Counter sink holes
7. Remove the screws from both sides of the folding feet being careful not to let the clips fall out from the side where they were left in place.
8. Place your newly prepared one piece plexiglas shoe and place it over the two original plastic feet (keeping them in place)
9. Take the longer screws and screw down the whole thing back together.
10. You should find that the plexiglass now spans the hinge and the action of the newly independent foot have essentially created one solid tilting surface when you turn the green knob. Try it.
The only drawbacks are: You cannot set the angle without messing around (who sets an angle when scribing baseboard?)
The base only tilts to one side, if you need it tilt both ways you have to buy two.
There is no dust extraction but i have an idea for that.
Last but not least you have to buy the crappy tilt base and it's not cheap.
I felt like a fool buying this saw as I held a trion before i got the carvex. I checked out the tilting base and foolled myself into thinking it could make beveled scribe cuts. I was going to return both items the next day. I sat in my basement until ten tinkering with the base until I found the solution. It's not ideal but it works. Festool dropped the ball there, they could make a plate that spans the hinge easy enough. There is a way to get the base to tilt both ways but it involves some grinding to remove three pieces of the blue barrel like part of the winding mechanism and recreating the two small clips but making them longer (an unthanking task)
