mavrick1903 said:
... I was using the top of the systainers on the top of the vac (that happend to be in use in conjunction with the router) as a place to set the router. um wow. I know many of y'all have already figured this one out, but wow, I'm in love. as a Fein owner as well, It never occured to me that something as simple as this, could be that big of a deal. Just goes to show ya, it's a SYSTEM!
Yep, that's my normal procedure too. But do take care that the tool does not fall off -- hasn't happened to me, yet. I have long thought that Festool should offer a platform with short sides to prevent such an incident, and that separate platform would simply attach to the top of any (well, you'd need another size for the minis) Systainer with the clips as all Systainers connect. Until then, such a platform is a project that has been on my to do list...
Ned Young said:
...And unlike other vacs that are shaped more or less like barrels, you can carry a Festool vac one-handed up narrow stairs!
Ned
I'm definitely with Ned on this! My shop is located in the basement so 'everything' has to either go through the house, down the stairs, down a hallway and get through the shop's inside doorway -- or, on those occasions when the weather allows and whatever 'everything' consists of isn't too large and/or heavy, I might get it all (or one at a time) down the hill along the side of the house, around the corner and, if lucky, into the shop's exterior door. Well, I might. Point being, if I am starting with a piece of 4'x8' sheet material, I know it is not going down the stairs and it is not likely that I'll get it around the outside, so I keep a cutting table sized just for such an occasion in the garage. Don't have a second CT in the garage (yet???), so I usually am going up the stairs with the CT. And a saw. Have I mentioned the rails? Now, when the weather permits, I do prefer to wheel th CT up to the garage, but usually the rest still goes up the stairs. This has been going on around my place for a little over two years now -- well, at least when I could over that period.
For much of my life I have wanted a nice woodworking shop, but in the 'bigger is better' frame of mind any collection of large power tools would prove too much for the limited space, power, and in my present home, access. One day while innocently looking through a review of then new hybrid table saws I turned the page to find Festool's ad for their new TS 55 plunge cut saw. Sure, I've used a straight edge to guide a circular saw back in my younger days, but this new saw and rail looked to be far superior, and maybe this was the answer I needed to finally set up a nice shop. So far, I think it's worked out better than I ever would have imagined. And I'm just learning...
Sorry to be long winded here, but do enjoy your CT!
