Why don't all of the tracks have holes?

[Kev]

I may be really stupid here - but I'm just thinking to my self ... wouldn't it have been good if all of my tracks were LR32 friendly.

Any thoughts?

 

[Kejmjjjlm]

I was just thinking the same thing. I am new to Festool.  In fact, I have never heard of it until my wife bought me a Domino for Christmas.  That unleashed my inner monster and I ordered Festool everything.  It all just arrived today. As I was putting the MTF/3 together, I was trying to think of a way to return the 1080 track and replace it with a 1400 with the 32 mm hole spacing. It may cost a few bucks more to drill the holes, but more people would buy all the accessories to drill the shelf holes. I guess I will connect the non-hole tracts to make one long track, and use the 1400 with holes for the MTF/3 and cabinet making.

 

[ajones]

I was just thinking the same thing. I am new to Festool.  In fact, I have never heard of it until my wife bought me a Domino for Christmas.  That unleashed my inner monster and I ordered Festool everything.  It all just arrived today. As I was putting the MTF/3 together, I was trying to think of a way to return the 1080 track and replace it with a 1400 with the 32 mm hole spacing. It may cost a few bucks more to drill the holes, but more people would buy all the accessories to drill the shelf holes. I guess I will connect the non-hole tracts to make one long track, and use the 1400 with holes for the MTF/3 and cabinet making.

Haha this is the usual can of worms.....

I think the same way all tracks should have holes, but dont worry about returning your 1080 for a holey 1400 just get the holey 1400 you can always use more rails I have even choped a few up to make custom lengths.

If you can buy a long rail rather than having to join two rails as it  will get on your tits in the end its well worth the extra $ for your sanity

Oh and  [welcome] to the fog

 

[Kev]

Oh and  [welcome] to the fog

Oh Yes - first post for Kejmjjjlm - I missed that.

[welcome] [welcome] [welcome]

 

[mouppe]

I was just thinking the same thing. I am new to Festool.  In fact, I have never heard of it until my wife bought me a Domino for Christmas.  That unleashed my inner monster and I ordered Festool everything.  It all just arrived today. As I was putting the MTF/3 together, I was trying to think of a way to return the 1080 track and replace it with a 1400 with the 32 mm hole spacing. It may cost a few bucks more to drill the holes, but more people would buy all the accessories to drill the shelf holes. I guess I will connect the non-hole tracts to make one long track, and use the 1400 with holes for the MTF/3 and cabinet making.

This might just be the greatest first post in FOG history!

"I have never heard of it until my wife bought me a Domino"

WTF?!!!!

 

[hrrb]

...In fact, I have never heard of it until my wife bought me a Domino for Christmas.  ...

[blink] [blink] [blink]
Must be some sort of a troll !  [big grin]

 

[davee]

I was just thinking the same thing. I am new to Festool.  In fact, I have never heard of it until my wife bought me a Domino for Christmas.  That unleashed my inner monster and I ordered Festool everything.  It all just arrived today. As I was putting the MTF/3 together, I was trying to think of a way to return the 1080 track and replace it with a 1400 with the 32 mm hole spacing. It may cost a few bucks more to drill the holes, but more people would buy all the accessories to drill the shelf holes. I guess I will connect the non-hole tracts to make one long track, and use the 1400 with holes for the MTF/3 and cabinet making.

There has to be story here.  May I ask why your wife bought you a Domino for Christmas?  My wife bought me a Domino but it was to make her some furniture she was wanting, and I had to hint a bit.  She did buy me a Kapex out of the blue, but she had seen me drooling over it many times in the past.  You have obviously taken the Festool plunge!!  Enjoy.  Kev - sorry for hijacking the thread - past threads have conjectured manufacturing cost as the reason they don't all have holes.

 

[Kev]

Kev - sorry for hijacking the thread - past threads have conjectured manufacturing cost as the reason they don't all have holes.

That's cool.

Yes, pondered that, but also thought the reduction in product range would compensate.

 

[Sparktrician]

Kev - sorry for hijacking the thread - past threads have conjectured manufacturing cost as the reason they don't all have holes.

That's cool.

Yes, pondered that, but also thought the reduction in product range would compensate.

Obviously, you're not a cheese-maker... 

[big grin]

 

[Kejmjjjlm]

So for the rest of "This might just be the greatest first post in FOG history!" story.  We just completed an extensive remodel of our house, so my wife asked each of the carpenters and framers what to get me for Christmas knowing that I was going to be doing some of the less urgent closet systems and cabinets.  The most common answer was a Dewalt biscuit joiner. One of the guys said, "Yes, but if you want to spoil him, get him a Festool"  The other finish carpenter, who used the Dewalt on our house, said his worked just fine and that he used it for this, this and this at my house.  The other guy again said, "Yes, but if you want to spoil him, get him a Festool"  So she did.

I must say that when I opened the present, looked at it in its funny looking plastic box with a green knob, looked at her with a puzzled look on my face, she explained that it was a biscuit joiner, and I basically tossed it aside thinking, "What in the world am I going to do with a biscuit joiner?"  I took a good week or two before I looked it up on YouTube, and WOW  !!!  The Domino is amazing.  And so is Festool, and WOW.  I was putting together my new work shop, so I decided to build it around Festool.  Kapex, MFT/3 x 2, TS55, LR32, RO150, RO 90, OF 1400,CT 36 with boom arm, and  lots of clamps, etc.  Now I need a router table.  Too bad they don't have one yet.

And now I have lots of funny looking containers with a green knob in front.

Yes, my wife is smarter than me.

 

[otis04]

To answer the original question, Festool is a tool company and they derive income from selling tools.  If they can sell an extra rail because you need one with holes, that is just one more sale.  By the way, I don't think it is a bad thing.  I am happy they have a company that makes tools and sells them at a profit so I can choose to buy and use them in my shop.

 

[EWTHeckman]

Yes, my wife is smarter than me.

She does sound very smart. That she was willing to marry you, and that you married such a smart woman means you're no slouch either.  [big grin]

[welcome] to the FOG. You've added a lot of great toys, er, tools to your shop. I'm a bit jealous.  [wink] You have many hours of fun work ahead. Enjoy!

 

[Kev]

So for the rest of "This might just be the greatest first post in FOG history!" story.  We just completed an extensive remodel of our house, so my wife asked each of the carpenters and framers what to get me for Christmas knowing that I was going to be doing some of the less urgent closet systems and cabinets.  The most common answer was a Dewalt biscuit joiner. One of the guys said, "Yes, but if you want to spoil him, get him a Festool"  The other finish carpenter, who used the Dewalt on our house, said his worked just fine and that he used it for this, this and this at my house.  The other guy again said, "Yes, but if you want to spoil him, get him a Festool"  So she did.

I must say that when I opened the present, looked at it in its funny looking plastic box with a green knob, looked at her with a puzzled look on my face, she explained that it was a biscuit joiner, and I basically tossed it aside thinking, "What in the world am I going to do with a biscuit joiner?"  I took a good week or two before I looked it up on YouTube, and WOW  !!!  The Domino is amazing.  And so is Festool, and WOW.  I was putting together my new work shop, so I decided to build it around Festool.  Kapex, MFT/3 x 2, TS55, LR32, RO150, RO 90, OF 1400,CT 36 with boom arm, and  lots of clamps, etc.  Now I need a router table.  Too bad they don't have one yet.

And now I have lots of funny looking containers with a green knob in front.

Yes, my wife is smarter than me.

Take your wife on a trip to Europe for he birthday. You can bring back the Festool CMS router system ... and all of it's friends.