VAC-SYS English-language Information

[Forrest Anderson]

In the thread about the Li-Ion drills, I recently posted an extract from the printed catalogue of the Axminster Tool Centre which is one of the UK's leading tool dealers. Axminster have released details and pricing of several new items, and I am reproducing them here. (If Axminster objects, then I will remove the scans)

Here we have details of the VAC-SYS (click on the picture to make it bigger):



Forrest

 

[Eli]

Thanks Forrest.

$1,929.32AUD
$1,526.48USD

Yikes! :-[

 

[Forrest Anderson]

More on the VAC-SYS in English:

12-page Festool UK brochure

Article on page 2 of the UK Festool Facts Newsletter

Forrest

 

[Frank Pellow]

Forrest, thanks for posting the links.  I very much enjoyed reading the material that they pointed  and even dreaming about having some of these tools some day.

 

[w00dbutcheruk]

i had a play with this system at a recent tool fare here in the UK, was very good indeed but @ ?800 it is expensive !!

 

[paul_david_thomas]

Does the VAC work ??

I had a play with one of them last monday - my god do they hold tight !!!

I placed a 2.4m by .2m plank of engineered wood on it to sand with an RO150 - didn't move an inch. Moved the MFT/3 first !!

The cool thing was that I just tilted the work piece to a comfy angle and set to work. It all felt very natural.

However... It's bloody expensive..

Paul.

p.s. I could not hear the machine providing the suction.

 

[EcoFurniture]

Arrrrgggg!!
I already see it coming--all my profit will go to festool... time to buy some shares from them

How come that Germans are always the first ones coming up with these incredible products?

 

[nickao]

I will buy that unit the day it comes out here in the US. The price seems right to me.

What I have invested in one I made up is not a whole lot cheaper. Though the suction will not be any better than what I use the system as sold is sweet and it is just calling to me, buy me, buy me, buy me. Like every other Festool.

 

[Frank-Jan]

I had a brief demo of the thing aswell last tuesday. I asked about clamping narrow stuff, and how I saw similar clamps on the internet that worked with rubber strips you had to put in different grooves. He just slid the entire "suction cup-thing" off and put a smaller one on. BTW the guy didn't have a mft3 with him, (or he had packed it back up already) he installed the vac sys onto a workbench that consisted of a board with no holes clamped in a superjaw stand, the vac sys has a green sliding button on the base, when activated it sucked itself to the "bench".

I forgot to make a cheeky comment bout the superjaw stand, because I was a bit preoccupied with other questions I had bout other tools (mostly centrotec stuff for the protool drill I bought the week before).