Ratchet failing and wearing

[JesseCountertops]

I would like to know why the teeth on the ratchet mechanism on my 2200 routers (I have 2) keep wearing down or kind of rounding over. It's not full of dust and it's always the loosening direction. It's already happening to my newest one and it's only like 3 weeks old. Just wish they would've kept the option to just use 2 wrenches like the old ones or the 1400, extremely frustrating. I need to use my routers a lot but the thing that's supposed to make changing bits faster is making it WAY slower.

 

[guybo]

Hi, welcome to the fog, this has been a problem mention before seems to be a dust problem creating the gear to slip or bind. https://festoolownersgroup.com/thre...g-sticky-ratchet-mechanism.44616/#post-496154

 

[guybo]

That wasnt a great reply, the catch must be worn or slipping

 

[JesseCountertops]

It definitely is chipped but it is pretty much brand new, and has happened to my other festool 2200 2 other times. Main complaint is it's a bad design for what is supposed to be a heavy duty router. The ratchet design is something that in my opinion is hurting the product way more than helping. I'll be returning my new one next time and probably modifying my other one so I can use a wrench or something more solid to remove bits. So frustrating, one of my routers is useless right now because of a stupid design. I have an older festool that in every way is better than the new ones except for the fact that you can't get parts for it because progress?

 

[luvmytoolz]

I'm just curious how many times a day or week you'd be changing router bits, and is it possible you're maybe applying too much pressure when you're tightening them up which might explain the chipping?

It's a pretty simple mechanism design, but you've had it happen 3 times now to 2 different routers?