When was the HL850 released in Aus?

[luvmytoolz]

Hi all, it's infuriating how little Festool puts out there historically, I did find a link with a history of the release dates of their tools, but amazingly the HL 850 (and the 65) is omitted!

Does anyone know when this was originally released, and also the date for OZ if possible?

 

[Cheese]

The only information I have is that both models were available in Australia in 2004.

 

[mino]

Hi all, it's infuriating how little Festool puts out there historically, I did find a link with a history of the release dates of their tools, but amazingly the HL 850 (and the 65) is omitted!

Does anyone know when this was originally released, and also the date for OZ if possible?

As for the HL 850, knowing so would have little value anyway. It is a Festool-badged Holz-Her planer that dates back to the 1980s. Festo/Festool took over the Holz-Her designs and production of several handheld tools in the 1990s.

Not sure about the HL65, I believe these would have a Narex/Protool lineage instead so will be a 1990s design.

 

[luvmytoolz]

I don't get why Festool bother to have a timeline on their site when it only covers some tools. I'm pretty sure it was early to mid 80's when I got mine being. A mate was asking how old it is as we were talking about a new spiral insert cutterhead I've ordered from CSP Tooling for it.