As a follow-up on my post about my TKS 80 EBS set and some replies (and a report about a similar problem):
First and most important is to not despair in case of problems as Festool Support will have your back. After calling support and following up with a mail containing some pictures of the problems I saw with my saw... the answer came within a few days in the form of a care package that replaced the affected parts, together with the the information that the source of the issues have been located and from now on blades will be pristine and the wheels of the slider tables will no longer disintegrate on their own. That IMHO is how things should be handled, solidifying my fate in the company and their products.
I suggest you contact support in case your unit (assembled before last week) is showing symptoms of these two issues.
Now, to really deliver on the clickbait title... here as promised a what not to do with a TKS 80:
I unpacked my brand new TKS 80 EBS and put it on the right hand side (when viewed from the small side with the power switch, talking about the side where the VB TKS 80 is mounted, the one from where you can access the tools and put the spare sawblade) to unfold the legs. So far all was well, but then I decided that it would be a good time to remove the styrofoam packaging material while it's nicely accessible without crawling to see what I am doing... but was reluctant to just rip out the one firmly wedged between the tables profile and the stored preset profile setting rail, as of all the plastic parts... so I wrongfully figured that a change in the cut angle might make this easier (rotate not only the blade but the whole thing below the table, releasing the styrofoam), hence I actuated the green lever that is used to change the mitre angle setting.
Interesting things happened quickly now.
One blink later the machine (well... assisted by gravity) had completed adjusting the blade angle from 90° to 45°... but with the miter in that setting now the lower door lock mechanic of the below-table blade guard (part #10238030 is the full assembly, available as a spare for an unexpectedly reasonable 36,71 € incl. VAT) tried to protrude outside of the frame of the saw... something that the concrete floor in the way definitively did not agree with, resulting in the built up kinetic energy (from the machines head basically free-falling) shearing the part that tried to venture through solid matter cleanly off on impact.
Lesson learned: >43° miter angle and putting a TKS 80 onto the right hand side of the frame is mutually exclusive, at least when the plan is to keep part #10238030 intact. Why that thing is build to have a plastic part slightly sticking out of the metal frame on high miter angles... is beyond me.
This observation has been reported, hopefully they'll manage to avoid such design decisions on further products.
First and most important is to not despair in case of problems as Festool Support will have your back. After calling support and following up with a mail containing some pictures of the problems I saw with my saw... the answer came within a few days in the form of a care package that replaced the affected parts, together with the the information that the source of the issues have been located and from now on blades will be pristine and the wheels of the slider tables will no longer disintegrate on their own. That IMHO is how things should be handled, solidifying my fate in the company and their products.
I suggest you contact support in case your unit (assembled before last week) is showing symptoms of these two issues.
Now, to really deliver on the clickbait title... here as promised a what not to do with a TKS 80:
I unpacked my brand new TKS 80 EBS and put it on the right hand side (when viewed from the small side with the power switch, talking about the side where the VB TKS 80 is mounted, the one from where you can access the tools and put the spare sawblade) to unfold the legs. So far all was well, but then I decided that it would be a good time to remove the styrofoam packaging material while it's nicely accessible without crawling to see what I am doing... but was reluctant to just rip out the one firmly wedged between the tables profile and the stored preset profile setting rail, as of all the plastic parts... so I wrongfully figured that a change in the cut angle might make this easier (rotate not only the blade but the whole thing below the table, releasing the styrofoam), hence I actuated the green lever that is used to change the mitre angle setting.
Interesting things happened quickly now.
One blink later the machine (well... assisted by gravity) had completed adjusting the blade angle from 90° to 45°... but with the miter in that setting now the lower door lock mechanic of the below-table blade guard (part #10238030 is the full assembly, available as a spare for an unexpectedly reasonable 36,71 € incl. VAT) tried to protrude outside of the frame of the saw... something that the concrete floor in the way definitively did not agree with, resulting in the built up kinetic energy (from the machines head basically free-falling) shearing the part that tried to venture through solid matter cleanly off on impact.
Lesson learned: >43° miter angle and putting a TKS 80 onto the right hand side of the frame is mutually exclusive, at least when the plan is to keep part #10238030 intact. Why that thing is build to have a plastic part slightly sticking out of the metal frame on high miter angles... is beyond me.
This observation has been reported, hopefully they'll manage to avoid such design decisions on further products.