TSC Millimeter Sticker

[lunkerj]

Anyone know the best way to install the millimeter sticker over the imperial on a TSC 55? It appears the deep stop assembly will need to be removed, but i was unable to figure that out as well. The instruction manual is silent on the issue and I cannot file any videos with a procedure. Thanks in advance.

 

[marktz]

I found a video when looking for something else - can't find it now.  Basically you slide the depth stop to one end, put half the sticker on, then slide the stop to the other end and put the rest of the sticker on.

 

[Tom the Remodeler]

It still baffles me that Festool chose to put "King's Foot" measurements on their North American tools, it would seem to make a lot more sense to keep the standard metric scales and include a sticker for the users who insist on using a system of measurement derived from a monarch's anatomy..... 

 

[lunkerj]

Agreed, why sell European tools and make people adapt them to the metric standard.

 

[woodferret]

Especially when the detents are still in mm. 

 

[Crazyraceguy]

So far the DF500 is safe from that foolishness. There are people who 3D print Imperial versions of the fence stop, but everything else is metric, so why not just embrace it?  The cutters and tenons are metric too, so why introduce one odd parameter?

 

[woodbutcherbower]

a system of measurement derived from a monarch's anatomy

So you heard those famous rumours, too ?  [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

 

[Cheese]

Especially when the detents are still in mm. 

It's all so very stupid...why did Festool even open the doors to this foolishness? They are a German company after all or are they actually a Chinese manufacturing firm with a German address?

I'm starting to think the latter...talk about shooting yourself in the foot.  [jawdrop] [jawdrop] [jawdrop]

 

[alltracman78]

I laughed when I used my HK85 grooving cutter and realized even though everything is in MM (saw scale, shims for cutter) the max cut for the groover is EXACTLY 1 inch, and not a metric measurement.
On a tool not meant for the US to boot.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

I laughed when I used my HK85 grooving cutter and realized even though everything is in MM (saw scale, shims for cutter) the max cut for the groover is EXACTLY 1 inch, and not a metric measurement.
On a tool not meant for the US to boot.

The Brits are as confounded about this as we are. They use both systems of measurement too, depending on what you are actually measuring.

 

[luvmytoolz]

I've gotta admit, this is possibly the first time I can recall seeing Americans complaining about the imperial measurement system! ;-)