Question about Festool Kapex on YouTube

[jylu97]

I was watching the Festool Kapex demo on YouTube and I noticed that they use screws for their baseboard and trim moulding?  What's up with that?  Is it common to do that in Europe? 

I have my Kapex in front of me and I realized I either have to go with shorter baseboards (max height 4 5/8") or cut the taller baseboards flat on the Kapex and therefore, not use the angle measuring device Festool has included .  I'm kind of disappointed with that.

Liz

 

[josephgewing]

Liz,

I'm not sure this would work and it would require some futzing around, but you could measure the miter angle with the snazzy miter angle device and adjust the miter angle of the saw to get a miter angle "reading" and then set your bevel angle to the miter angle "reading".  If you try it, let us know how it works.

Thanks for your post.

Joe

 

[Frans]

Most houses in Europe are made of brick or concrete, not wood as in North America. It's not easy to get a nail into that, so baseboards and trim are either screwed or glued.

Frans

 

[honeydoman]

yep that is true for taller base... go buy the starrett angle finder it reads the angle right on the tool and it gives you the single cut angle and the miter cut angle and then set you saw... much faster then using the festool angle guide with no reading on it.

 

[Per Swenson]

Liz,

Here in the States 90% of commercial construction is metal studs.

For this you use trim screws.

These also come in amazingly handy for applying uncooperative wood trim to wood studs.

The reason that it is not popular in residential construction is speed and cost.

They leave a hole akin to a 15 g angled finish nailer.

Hope this helps.

Per

 

[Frank-Jan]

Liz,

I'm not sure this would work and it would require some futzing around, but you could measure the miter angle with the snazzy miter angle device and adjust the miter angle of the saw to get a miter angle "reading" and then set your bevel angle to the miter angle "reading".  If you try it, let us know how it works.

Thanks for your post.

Joe

I have tried that method the second day I used my kapex. I used it outside to cut 8.5" wide meranti fasciaboards. (Normally I would have used my makita ls1013 and dewalt stand for that, but it was at another jobsite...) The addition I was working on (big garage) had two square corners and three weird angled ones.
The miters came out perfect from the first try. (the fasciaboard was in two steps, the part with the detail routed into, that got screwed to the front of the top-part which afterwards was capped with zink, got cut standing up)
(These weird descriptions remind me of having to take pictures while I'm working... )
I do have a digital angle finder (was a very expensive thing) but it's about 15.8 inches long (40cm) and the hinge part is very blunt, I mainly use it to get the 0 for ordering sandwichpanels for roofs, or for bending gutterhooks etc (it has built-in bubbles, to get absolute angles (by this I mean in refference to plumb or level). BTW despite of having to use height rollers instead of the easy to set up dewalt stand, I didn't regret using the kapex on that job with all those bevel cuts) (It was drizzling a bit outside, and I didn't want to carry the mft throught the rain)