Cheese said:
Richard/RMW said:
Related question, would a 165mm (6-1/2") blade work on a TSC? It'd be about 2.5mm larger all around.
I'll eyeball my saw, just wonder ing f anyone has actual experience.
Thanks.
RMW
Richard, here's a 162 mm Mafell blade inside the TSC/K. The closest any teeth come to the inside wall is 2.5-3 mm so a 167 mm blade would probably fit if they made such a beast.
FWIW...the Mafell blades for the MT 55 are all 1.8 mm kerf.
I can confirm a 165 blade will NOT work in a TSC 55 - at least not without "modification" which such blade will dully provide ..
While the enclosure can handle a 165mm blade in theory, it would interact with the spring which is holding the clear cover for the anti-splinter attachment. Also, for chip extraction you need some space between the blade and the enclosure, so you really do not want to go too tight anyway. The 162 Maffel is probably the max.
I made that mistake and lost my spring ... reminds me I need to add it on the next parts order.
ADD:
ref blades for TSC 55-K
Since the saw does not have a riving knife, the only thing you really care about for compatibility is -
not- the blade kerf but the cutter edge offset/position from the disc. And even that only so far as to make it same between all your blades.
This offset is 0.3mm for all (recent) Festool blades as 2.2/1.6 and 1.8/1.2. This means in a non-riving-knife saw old 2.2(1.6) Festool blade will have the same cut line like the new 1.8(1.2) will have.
CMT makes 1.7(1.1) thin blades as do other makers as mentioned. As long as you account for the cutter edge-disk offset being the same between all your blades you used on the tracks, the cut line will be the same. Even if the blades have a signifficantly different kerf.
One note is to make sure to measure the disc thickness at the arbor - some blades have a varying thickness so they are thicker at the arbor than at the adge. In that case the arbor thickness is what matters.
