You know when you are a Festool Junkie When:

[vteknical]

When you have contact the freight company to meet you at the parking lot of a hot dog joint to pick up your goods in fear of the wifey finding out!    Actually did that, needed 3 forms of ID, look like heist or something.

You cringe when your friends or family ask to borrow one. AND.................. If they know your a junkie, this is their way of playing the Jedi mind trick on you because you would much rather do the work for them, then to leave your babies in the hands of the unworthy.  Still a win/win

You get pissed when your labels and lid liners peel off.

You seek psychiatric treatment after you find out they can not perform every imaginable task.  Example: Not a good Idea to edge you lawn with a TS55 and 118" guide rail to because this may harm and decrease the tool's life.  "But Doc you don't understand how important it is to have a perfect 90 degrees edged lawn"

You start sounding like a Saleman!

 

[brandon.nickel]

I'm seriously considering having a 3000mm guide rail sent to work because my wife is home all day and I can't possibly justify to her why I want another guide rail when I have two perfectly good 1400s joined together...

 

[Ned]

I'm seriously considering having a 3000mm guide rail sent to work because my wife is home all day and I can't possibly justify to her why I want another guide rail when I have two perfectly good 1400s joined together...

And she's not going to be curious about this 10-foot package you bring home from work? 

Ned

 

[greg mann]

He's going to hide it in his buddie's garage until she goes out for groceries. ;D

Actually, the question I get asked by just about everyone who is aware of my affliction is, "Is there anything they make that you don't have?", not knowing that they have opened up the opportunity for an hour-long dissertation on 'NAINA'. After that, they never ask again.

My sweetie gets all excited because her 15 month-old granddaughter is beginning to call her "Nana". I don't have the heart (or courage) to tell her she is really saying "Na-i-ana". A term she picked while watching me surf 'unread posts'.  ;D

 

[Eli]

When you won't help a friend build anything unless you bring all your tools to his house. Which you don't want to do, so you end up looking like a nonstarter instead. A lazy tool polishing junkie  ;D

 

[graphex]

When you know what your Systainer Tetris high score is. (there are many different methods for determining this)

You spend more than 15 minutes trying to figure out what the various slots and cutouts are for in your new tool's systainer.
-When you buy an accessory just because you figured out what one of those slots was for.

You can explain what a Domino is without using the term "biscuit".

You tell your local Festool dealer what a Kapex is.

The only german words you know are Tauchs?gen, Oberfr?ser and Pendelstichs?ge, and you're going to do without a Tischzugs?ge for as long as it takes for the UL to approve the Precisio.

 

[joraft]

And she's not going to be curious about this 10-foot package you bring home from work? 

Ned

I got a chuckle over the thought of trying to sneak one of those into the house, remembering the hassle I had just getting mine home. 

John

 

[brandon.nickel]

I already have two 1400s joined together, so as long as I replace that one, she'll never notice the difference.  I usually enter the house through the garage, so there's no reason why she'd see the arrival.  This could work.  I think.  I hope.

 

[PaulW]

I already have two 1400s joined together, so as long as I replace that one, she'll never notice the difference.  I usually enter the house through the garage, so there's no reason why she'd see the arrival.  This could work.  I think.  I hope.

Been there done that......today as a matter of fact.  ;D