New Dominos Coming to North America

[luvmytoolz]

But, does it plunge straight and square?

Hard to say, they don't actually look too bad for something around the $35 range, certainly not crappy like the Zeta knock-offs anyway.

 

[luvmytoolz]

I don't know...there's a reason why Domino bits look like they do and a reason drill bits look like they do. With the absence of lateral motion, the Domino bit will not easily clear the wood chips, that's the job of the high helix angle used on drill bits. Without the high helix angle wood just gets drilled, chips become packed in the void, the bit overheats and the precision of the drilled hole goes South.

They don't use drills, you actually fit a trimmer in it and use router bits suitable for plunging.

 

[Tony from Pandora]

Any chance the new 'improved' fence would fit on the older Domino 500?

Nevermind... I saw Peter Millard's video. Looks like it will, but there's calibration issues.

 

[Leadfoot]

With a DC power source, for brushless you do a "simple" curve-generation to generate the 3+ phases of AC needed for the motor. Relatively simple and cheap addon on top of the single AC curve a brushed motor gets by with.

With an AC source, you first need to generate DC from the AC power you got, then you can do the same as with the DC power source. One more conversion, at a high voltage at that, and you can see why it is more tricky. There are phase-shifting tricks to make this more efficient, but the gist of more complexity stays.

Further, a brushed AC tool allows you to leverage the AC input directly, a simple capacitor is all that is needed for a single-phase brushed motor to operate. True, the full-wave electronics Festool uses are more complicated than that, but still those electronics only "tune" the AC wave they are presented with, they do not do the full AC-DC-AC conversion a brushless single-phase AC tool requires.

My brain now hurts

 

[mino]

My brain now hurts

LOL. Thanks. I do try!

/I strive to be concise yet precise. One great thing about LLM 'AIs' today is they are excellent to elaborate onward from a concise point, like a King's advisor/researcher of sorts./

 

[BWS]

Its great Festool is bringing the cordless model the the USA. I could not be happier with mine and feel its much more comfortable to use for extended periods than the corded model.

The new base is nice, the pins being metal and there being 2 sets of them really makes a difference.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Its great Festool is bringing the cordless model the the USA. I could not be happier with mine and feel its much more comfortable to use for extended periods than the corded model.

The new base is nice, the pins being metal and there being 2 sets of them really makes a difference.

Plunges almost too easily with the new D handle, took me a little by surprise when I first had a go. It really changes the ergonomics dramatically I reckon. It is a really nice model.

 

[BWS]

Plunges almost too easily with the new D handle, took me a little by surprise when I first had a go. It really changes the ergonomics dramatically I reckon. It is a really nice model.

It does have a smooth action when plunging. At least its much harder to accidentally turned it on before your ready.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Plunges almost too easily with the new D handle, took me a little by surprise when I first had a go. It really changes the ergonomics dramatically I reckon. It is a really nice model.

Don’t forget you’re handling a new tool with recently lubed plunge rods.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Don’t forget you’re handling a new tool with recently lubed plunge rods.

The newly lubed rails would have helped for sure, but I think it was more that for me I'm so used to doing a really controlled plunge on the DF700 with the 14mm cutters, that using the teensy DFC500 with the D handle and a small cutter in comparison was just so effortless. Kind of like if you've been pounding 6" nails into hardwood sleepers, and then you try hammering a few 12" brads!

It's so damn cute though! ;-)