TXS Drill Still Good Today?

[onocoffee]

A guy online is selling a well used TXS drill for $75 with two batteries and charger.
How are these drills and worth it?
Thanks!

 

[morts10n]

I have 2...one bought  new..one bought near new. love them. Charge lasts forever. Also, I think a lot of sellers trade on the name, and try to get top dollar for expired Festool batteries/tools

 

[Cypren]

I still use my TXS nearly every day, despite having the whole line of Festool drills. The newer 12V brushless models are better drills, in the sense that they have more power in the same package, but the newer electronic clutch is nowhere near as sensitive as the old mechanical clutch on the classic 10.8V CXS/TXS, so they're worse drivers. A lot of the projects I work on involve delicate screwdriver work where fine control over torque and speed are critical, and the TXS is probably the most precise and controllable powered screwdriver I've ever used.

$75 is an absolute steal; you won't regret it. If the drill is all banged up, note that you can just order a replacement housing from EKAT. Switching out the internals is an easy task that can be done in a few minutes.

 

[squall_line]

$75 is an absolute steal; you won't regret it.

Unless it is actually stolen, of course. 

$75 seems way too good to be true unless it's either: a) completely beaten to within an inch of its life and has batteries that don't hold a charge, or b) not actually owned by the seller.

 

[onocoffee]

God - there is no forum that I've despised more than this one and how incredibly difficult it is to add images. I just can't get it. It seems nigh impossible yet I see other members post images daily. I have tried and tried, again and again, and it's been abject failure. I can reduce the jpeg to 1mb, follow the tutorials and still misery. It's messages that I've either already submitted the post or the festool page isn't working, or a third message whose details I can't recall because I'm blinded by frustration with this forum software.

I've tried different variations on how to place the image. Used the little button to insert the image. Selected different inline image options. And the only consistency is the outright failure to post an image.

Okay, now that I've shared that and won't be sharing the image I shot for this reply - here's my reply:

Well, I reached out to the seller, asked about the tool and asked him to consider an offer of $50. He accepted and I picked it up today. Manufactured September 2015 but with only the Jacobs style chuck, two 2,6 batteries and charger. Turns out the tool was part of a larger set of tools the seller received from a friend when that friend decided to retire. And while the seller is well invested in Festool (he's a furniture maker), he didn't need another drill and put this up for sale.

Took it home, cleaned it up a bit and it seems to work fine. For those of you with these older battery tools, how has the long-term battery performance been? My DeWalt drills and drivers have got to be at least ten years old by now and they seem to be still in good order. Are these 10.8v batteries still being produced, or are there adapters for the newer 12v and 18v batteries?

Just playing around with it today, I like the smoothness and feel of the TXS and seems like a nice compliment to my CXS12.

Thanks for the thoughts on this. I do appreciate them!

 

[Cypren]

Took it home, cleaned it up a bit and it seems to work fine. For those of you with these older battery tools, how has the long-term battery performance been? My DeWalt drills and drivers have got to be at least ten years old by now and they seem to be still in good order. Are these 10.8v batteries still being produced, or are there adapters for the newer 12v and 18v batteries?

My oldest Festool batteries date back to 2015 but still work fine. I have had one battery failure (a cordless sander battery that sat unused for two years and then refused to take a charge), but overall reliability of the platform has been excellent.

I believe the 10.8v tools have been retired with the introduction of the new 12v brushless models, which would place the batteries into the extended support category of Festool products. They generally guarantee ten years of parts availability for their tools after they’re discontinued, so my assumption would be that these batteries will remain available for the next nine years if not longer.

There are no adapters I’m aware of to allow the newer batteries to be used with the older drills, though it might be possible to design one assuming that the newer “12V” batteries are still using three 3.6V lithium-ion cells in series. Maybe something I’ll look into at some point; it would be nice to just have a single set of battery chargers for everything.

 

[Jim_in_PA]

Are these 10.8v batteries still being produced, or are there adapters for the newer 12v and 18v batteries?

Still available:
https://www.festoolusa.com/accessor...ing-technology/battery-packs/500243---bp-xs-2,-d-,6-ah-li-ion-usa

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[bwehman]

I still use my TXS nearly every day, despite having the whole line of Festool drills. The newer 12V brushless models are better drills, in the sense that they have more power in the same package, but the newer electronic clutch is nowhere near as sensitive as the old mechanical clutch on the classic 10.8V CXS/TXS, so they're worse drivers. A lot of the projects I work on involve delicate screwdriver work where fine control over torque and speed are critical, and the TXS is probably the most precise and controllable powered screwdriver I've ever used.

$75 is an absolute steal; you won't regret it. If the drill is all banged up, note that you can just order a replacement housing from EKAT. Switching out the internals is an easy task that can be done in a few minutes.

Did this with an old clapped out T12 and it looked brand new afterward. I think the shell was something like $40 but the seller I bought the drill from was selling it super cheap because of the way it looked.

 

[Cypren]

Funny enough, I actually replaced the housing and the clutch ring on my TXS about a month ago after I accidentally dropped it off a ladder and it got a huge gouge in it. EKAT didn't (and still doesn't) have the drill listed in the US (though it is on the international site), so I called up Festool USA customer service to try to place an order over the phone and they just sent me the parts for free.

It's those little touches of excellent service that keep me buying green.