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I've been very happy with them, till I blindly drilled into a couple of welds and trashed a few. Not sure what would withstand drilling through a weld though.

A powered vise to use a hand saw... meh

My shop has about 10 table saws and 2 monster panel saws. A week ago I cut over 70 sheets of 5x12 pre laminated sheets of 1/4in MDF. Not fun humping them up onto a table saw to rip them, also not fun trying to keep it against the fence for a straight cut on a 5x12. I also cut a bunch of pre laminated 4x10s of 1/4 MDF and 4x10 sheets of pre laminated 1in MDF, now those are heavy mothers. I made all the cuts with a track saw. I just wheeled my cut table over to the pile and loaded one at a time, I never had to bust my ass humping boards around. I'd also say the cuts were straighter than a table saw, because there is always the issue of big boards coming away from the fence. Also the laminate often over hangs the MDF core so it needs to be trimmed back to the core to get a straight edge to go against the fence. On some I just used a router to clean up the edge, but often both the top and bottom layer over hang. So its quicker to just lay a track down on the board and make a cut to get a clean edge.

Good point, pretty much the way I feel about cordless compressors. If I'm going to run an air hose from it does a cord make that much of a difference?

Like I said, most guys don't utilize the Festool tools we have. Normally those big sheets are cut on a table saw and panel saw. I did not feel like busting my ass lifting all those sheets since we had a huge build to do. I told my lead man man how I wanted to do it and he let me and was happy with the out come. He just kept me cutting for days and the rest of the crew assembling. As I utilize the equipment more and they see it's more productive I will ask for more accessories. A couple of months ago I grabbed a Festool plainer from the tool room. It still had the twist ties on the cord.

He measured off the edge of the MDF to the base of the saw. Screwed the plate to the MDF and plunged the blade in. The fence was measured from edge of MDF and blade to check for square and screwed down. Not great for ease of adjustability, but it worked for our needs.

No cyclone kit, this is just shop supplied Festool. Most guys dont even know we have it. When I'm done I kind of hide them away in the tool room. We had a 74 in and 2 53in tracks. When I had a ton of 12 footers to rip, I asked my lead man if we could get another 74in track. He had one delivered within an hour.

Im pretty much the only one who uses the vacuum with the track saw and 1400 router. We have 2 CT 36s and a CT 11. The CT 11 has a European plug on it, so I have no idea the last time that one was used.

No it was not clamped. Here is a pic of what I was cutting.

Our tool room guy has a laborer empty out the bags so we can reuse them. Probably not the best practice but better than no dust collection at all.

I filled 3 bags in under a week on a CT 36 .

"Mortgage specialists will be standing by" Ha Ha ha

I pretty much never clean my tools. I feel compressed air just blows dust and debris INTO the tool. Who cares if its on the outside of the tool. I work with a ton of MDF, I just shake the dust off and thats about it. If there is a shop vac around or a dust extractor I'll use that. The only thing I used compress air on is the outside of my box and the top of the table saw. My mechanic tools just get wiped off with a rag before they go back in the box.

There was a few more builds that we did for the Pandora commercial that were not in the video. I not sure if they didn't make the cut or there will be different versions of the commercial coming out.

I'm not sure what happened here, I was cutting some very light gauge aluminum L stock and the blade grabbed the piece. My hand got a little banged up, but nothing serious. This is what the blade looked like afterwards. Thing is I don't know if it happened from grabbing the piece or if the teeth were missing and thats why it grabbed the piece. I usually go pretty slow hen cutting Aluminum, so I probably would have felt vibrations if it was like that when I started. It was in a 12in miter saw

The scene with the truck was actually shot in a pool, the bedroom scene was shot in a pool we made. The whole set was built in under 48hrs.

We were on stage and needed to cut down a bunch of Sentrex strips. We did not have a table saw with us, so my lead man made this. He did all the cutting himself, I thought it was a pretty cool idea.

I'll search for it when I get a chance. A while back I watched a vidieo where it showed how to make a sled to true up a table with a router. He screwed rails on the side of the table and ran the sled off them.

Looks great, what is your plan to true it up when it's all glued together?

Currently these are my favorite pair of cutting pliers http://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-8-in-Diagonal-Cutting-Pliers-D2488/100648071 I'm looking for flush cut pliers that could easily cut 16 gauge staples.

I've been cutting prelaminted 5x12 sheets of MDF for days now... Maybe I'll sell it as modern art.

So funny, a guy I work with is into tools as much as I am… His fiancé looked at his searches on amazon and said No Festool for you! that stuff is too expensive. He wants a track saw as bad as I do. Since he is getting married in a few months I suggested he put it on his wedding registry. Now I'm afraid he will get a track saw before me.

The guy who posted the pics was a freelance scenic painter, not a full time employee of the shop. we are jamming right now, 70+ hours last week. We were instructed no phones out in the shop. The client hired security to watch the cameras in the shop till work is complete. It sucks because we build some crazy stuff. This is something we pumped out in a couple of days, so you guys will just have to see the after, not before. I switched crews recently and build cooler stuff now

I went through my previous threads and deleted a bunch of pics that I posted. A painter at my shop posted a pic of a set being built in FB and tagged it. Well it ended up getting picked up by the media and its a big shit storm with possible law suits. He will probably never work in the industry again. I was always pretty careful about what I posted, but just trying to be safe.

I recently made this piece, its a bench / light box. I used the CMT triangle bit for all the routing. It was so nice, no filing the edges, just a light sanding with 400 sand paper. The black tape is on the corners because the formica is not glued to the Milkplex so its removable, we were just trying to hold the corners together for shipping. I trashed the bearing the next day trimming laminate that had a heavy protective plastic coating on it. The triangle did not like it and kept getting hung up, before I realized it the plastic triangle popped off and I screwed up about 6ins of the edge. Live and learn My lead man just ordered 10 more of the CMTs with triangle bearing and I ordered some with a square bearing from a Amana and Whiteside to see how they compare.