Stripped screw head on Domino height adjustment stop

[woodwrights_corner]

This was mentioned in one of the above comments, but I know it was not emphasized enough.
HEAT, HEAT, HEAT.
Use a hair dryer or whatever you think is best to soften any lock tite type material that may be on that screw. It would been applied at the factory.  Regardless of what method you are going to use to remove the cammed out fastener, use heat. Call Festool service and try to get to a tech that works on the tools.  Find out if this fastener is left hand or right hand threaded for sure.  Now I know this because years ago I had a similar situation on the Domino.  Lester or David (both no longer there, I don't remember which one and I still miss them both) shared this.  I do this with any tough fastener.  Dont forget to wipe off the hair dryer and put it back where you got it. 

 

[KB29]

This was mentioned in one of the above comments, but I know it was not emphasized enough.
HEAT, HEAT, HEAT.
Use a hair dryer or whatever you think is best to soften any lock tite type material that may be on that screw. It would been applied at the factory.  Regardless of what method you are going to use to remove the cammed out fastener, use heat. Call Festool service and try to get to a tech that works on the tools.  Find out if this fastener is left hand or right hand threaded for sure.  Now I know this because years ago I had a similar situation on the Domino.  Lester or David (both no longer there, I don't remember which one and I still miss them both) shared this.  I do this with any tough fastener.  Dont forget to wipe off the hair dryer and put it back where you got it.

Point taken - but why on earth would you use a left hand thread here (or anywhere for that matter)? Is it a European thing?

 

[tsmi243]

Left hand threads are used when the normal torque direction would try to loosen the threads.  If you ever change the wheels on a bench grinder, you'll figure it out pretty fast- one of them is righty-tighty, the other is righty-loosey.  Otherwise, the wheel on the left would be in danger of unscrewing itself when the grinder was in use. 

Pretty much any double-ended motor is like this.  You can't make both ends turn the same way (when viewed from the side), so one of them will always be "wrong". 

In this case- If Festool had wanted the lever on the other side, but still wanted it to point down when tight, then the "tighten" direction would be counterclockwise.  Doesn't really matter in this case, because of the hex shank.  But still.  Mirroring a bolt gives you a left-hand thread.  So plenty of levers and wheels out in the world are lefty-tighty. 

 

[tjbnwi]

Seeing as left hand threads was brought up I checked to see if this was left hand thread. It is right hand thread.

All of the screws on the levers on the Domino appear to be Phillips head. A phillips head screw driver fits them much better than a Posi-Drive.

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Tom

 

[Michael Kellough]

First time I have to disagree with Tom, the screws on the Domino are Pozi Drive.

He is correct that the shaft on the fence height clamp is hexagonal instead of a spline.

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[waho6o9]

It's my understanding  that the 4 diagonal demarcations in the corners indicate it's a Pozi drive.

 

[jeffinsgf]

It's my understanding  that the 4 diagonal demarcations in the corners indicate it's a Pozi drive.

+1

 

[montyss]

Yes the 4 lines indicate Posi Drive

 

[Crazyraceguy]

I checked mine this week, just because this came up. It is definitely Posi-Driv and right hand threaded.
Since it is just retaining the lever to a hex, there is no load against the screw itself. It just needs to be tight enough to stay in place. Any kind of thread retaining compound would be massive overkill and lead to stripped heads.