Kev
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yiquanone said:I tested my carvex out when I bought it, tried mitered cuts, did not work well, other things did not pan out like I thought they would, just assumed it was adjustment or blade or something, well when I tried a guided cut on a job, and sparks were coming off the blade, I sent it in for repairs, but did not make any difference. I did not see all these negative reviews before I bought it, I thought I looked at reviews, anyway this tool does not meet up to festool quality.
I hope I don't have trouble with my Kapex motor,I did not see those reviews either.
Sparks would tell me you probably still have a blade guide adjustment issue.
Yes - there certainly a cross section of dissatisfied CARVEX owners and it's therefore easy to give up on the tool and assume it's a lemon. The thing is, there's a number of us that have nothing but happy experiences with the CARVEX.
I'm not saying you're problems are not real, just work with it until you eliminate all possible user related issues before you dump it.
On the KAPEX, who knows what the stats are, but there's a really good chance that the US issues only relates to a very small percentage of units. On a popular forum such as the FOG (where Festool are extremely open to criticism and do zero to suppress it) bad news gets a lot of attention.