TS55 chip collection bag on Festool planer

[nixy]

I feel disappointed in the Festool system approach already. Only recently got into buying Festool in the past 6 months

The chip collection bag for TS55 does NOT fit onto the Festool EHL 65 planer.
https://www.festool.co.uk/accessory/500393---sb-tsc

You have to buy a separate bag for each machine
https://www.festool.co.uk/accessory/488566---sb-ehl

Come on Festool, make it more simple. Or better still why cant the chip collection bags be included in the tools. Then we don't have to "faff around" researching bags and adaptors.
(My cheap green Bosch planer years ago included everything - planer, adaptors, chip collection bags etc. Everything you need to get started. All for a small sum of only £50 UK pounds. Festool cost five times more and you still have to spend more money on adaptors and different models of bag.

(But I do like their CT dust extractors and track saw)

My moaning is over. Sorry!!!!

 

[ChuckM]

Reminds me of the cell phones sold in the old days that came bare. Now, we are usually given free car chargers, protective cases, some even protective screens (sheets),  not to mention bonus data and minutes.

One word: competition, or the lack of it.

 

[Gregor]

The chip collection bag for TS55 does NOT fit onto the Festool EHL 65 planer.

There is simple but quite valid reason for this: both machines produce quite different waste.

On the TS it has to filter fine dust while on the EHL it's just to catch shavings - that's why the materials differ: the bag for the EHL on the TS would vent fine dust, the bag for the TS on the EHL would be quite hard to empty as the shavings would stick to the inner layer (velcro style).

Regarding the bags being included: not everyone needs them.

 

[demographic]

Just to add to this that I recently bought a De-Walt 18 volt  (20 Volt Max in the land of the Mo/Bigga=Betta marketing hype) power planer.
Was slightly cheesed off when the chip collection bag off my 110 volt De-Walt power planer didn't fit it.

I'll likely codge something up with a bit of waste pipe and a bmx inner tube to avoid paying for the 18 volt ones version.