Why Spend $700 On A Festool CT Dust Extractor?

[CrazyLarry]

Scoff - I'm afraid you've got me pegged!  The only difference is I never tell my wife about any of my tool purchases.  When she notices something new in the shop, I always tell her I've that that for years... [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

Steve, that's right out of my play book

I hope you guys know you have to quickly scuff the new toy up a bit and make it look used to add plausibility to that line?

 

[leakyroof]

Just found this:

RRP Full Unit Certified HEPA Vacuums

Only a Full Unit Certified HEPA dust extractor meets the EPA RRP regulation guidelines, protecting you from expensive fines! All current Festool CT Dust Extractor models have been independently tested and certified to be FULL UNIT HEPA Dust Extractors. When you purchase a new Festool CT Dust Extractor, regardless of model, you will find a printed certificate in the box as well as labeling on the dust extractor documenting its Full Unit HEPA certification. If your current vacuum only has a HEPA filter and is not Full Unit HEPA Certified, then you are at risk of being cited for noncompliance with EPA RRP regulations. Simply put, there's absolutely no substitute for Full Unit HEPA Certification when using your vacuum for RRP.

Looks like I've just answered my own question.  CT36 - here I come!  [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the 36 AUTO is not RRP certified if I remember right. I think it's the only 1 in the line up that isn't. Regular CT-36 is.

 

[Kev]

Scoff - I'm afraid you've got me pegged!  The only difference is I never tell my wife about any of my tool purchases.  When she notices something new in the shop, I always tell her I've that that for years... [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

Steve, that's right out of my play book

I hope you guys know you have to quickly scuff the new toy up a bit and make it look used to add plausibility to that line?

My OCD keeps my wife at bay ... on the weekend she asked if a bike (I have many) was new ... it was honestly 5 years old - I just have a fastidious thing for keeping stuff looking new. It works for me [wink] [big grin]

 

[Brent Shively]

Just found this:

RRP Full Unit Certified HEPA Vacuums

Only a Full Unit Certified HEPA dust extractor meets the EPA RRP regulation guidelines, protecting you from expensive fines! All current Festool CT Dust Extractor models have been independently tested and certified to be FULL UNIT HEPA Dust Extractors. When you purchase a new Festool CT Dust Extractor, regardless of model, you will find a printed certificate in the box as well as labeling on the dust extractor documenting its Full Unit HEPA certification. If your current vacuum only has a HEPA filter and is not Full Unit HEPA Certified, then you are at risk of being cited for noncompliance with EPA RRP regulations. Simply put, there's absolutely no substitute for Full Unit HEPA Certification when using your vacuum for RRP.

Looks like I've just answered my own question.  CT36 - here I come!  [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the 36 AUTO is not RRP certified if I remember right. I think it's the only 1 in the line up that isn't. Regular CT-36 is.

Correct. The CT 36 AC is not supplied with a HEPA filter and cannot be made into a Certified HEPA Vaccum.  All of the other models are certified HEPA units.

Brent

 

[Hurricane Whisperer]

Scoff - I'm afraid you've got me pegged!  The only difference is I never tell my wife about any of my tool purchases.  When she notices something new in the shop, I always tell her I've that that for years... [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

Steve, that's right out of my play book

I hope you guys know you have to quickly scuff the new toy up a bit and make it look used to add plausibility to that line?

For a modest fee, you can send the unit to me and I will put it through my trademark certified aging process. In less than one month, I will be able to age the appearance of the unit by 5 years.  Included in this price will be various types of shop dust. Just the right amount of glue drips, paint drips and scuff marks. Saws will be used to take the color off the blade.  Vac attachments will be properly burnished on concrete floors  The interior of systainers will be suitably rearranged so that it will not be possible to figure out how the contents fit originally.

Your equipment will appear to be five years old with no real loss of actual performance and no effort on your part.

 

[Steve-Rice]

Thanks for the offer, Hurricane Whisperer, but I'm with Kev on this one - I clean ever tool, bit and blade at the end of every day and all my tools look like they are brand new - even the ones which are 20 years old. I clean the shop at the end of every day too. I am a confessed neat freak, but I'm definitely the guy you'd want to buy used tools from. [big grin]

 

[Hurricane Whisperer]

I have a bit of tool narcissism myself. That's why I offered to age someone else's tools.

One of the most brilliant things I ever saw a shop foreman do involved a cure. A young man had just bought a new set of shiny chrome wrenches. Every morning he would open his tool box and stare at his new wrenches. The foreman got sick of waiting for the young man to get to work, so he walked over to the tool box, pulled a couple of wrenches and flung them on the concrete floor.

Now that the shine was gone,the kid could get to work.