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Post by slithers on Jun 15, 2020 6:20:39 GMT -5
Hello There!
I recently bought a brand new p1cc and I was hoping to acquire some existing owners advice/pointers with it if thats possible.
I've reached out to mafell directly over e-mail but had no response (reading around though it seems that this is not uncommon).
Also apologies if my questions have been covered before, so here goes:
1. Should it get as hot as it does?. I was cutting some 50mm ash and i had to end up cutting it in 160mm sections as the machine got so hot i couldn't touch any of the metal parts near the power switch / pendulum switch, this was on speed setting 5 and sometimes 6 with pedulum settings 2 and 3 with no extraction (couldn't get my festool extractor to fit the port)
2. Should the blade be absoultely 90 degrees square to the standard base? my blades seem to be out by about .5mm when locked in - but only on one side.......
3. The blade housing seems to be leaking a little amount of lubricant?, is this normal?
Like i said apologies if these have been covered before - if anyone does have any pointers that would be great!
Thanks in advance
Matt Smith
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Post by aas on Jun 15, 2020 16:09:03 GMT -5
1. I've noticed warm, but not hot, maybe you ran it for longer than me!
2. Is the blade straight?.. try a different blade.
3. This is lubricant I think, is there lots coming out?
If you're not sure, speak to your dealer rather than trying to contact Mafell, they should get this looked at for you or reassure you all is good.
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Post by slithers on Jun 17, 2020 7:29:59 GMT -5
Update! Spoke to the dealer and they agreed that it shouldn't be getting scaldingly hot so they send me a new jigsaw out and I have just taken delivery of it (massive props to ITS for being really helpful on this). Tried running the jigsaw and it maybe me still being unfamiliar with the tool itself but it certainly "feels" different and there is far less lubricant coming out above of the blade housing. Speed setting 6 seems to be opertaing faster than the previous jigsaw too. I'm thinking i might have just gotten incredibly unlucky and managed to land a P1CC that had some sort of fault in the gearbox maybe? Either way thanks very much for the help aas. I do have one for question, is anyone aware of an adapter that will connect the mafell port to a festool size hose? Thanks once again!
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Post by lincoln on Jun 17, 2020 16:17:59 GMT -5
Glad you got it sorted. The festool hose fitting should fit on the P1 dust port.
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Post by slithers on Jun 18, 2020 3:53:39 GMT -5
Cheers lincoln, i'll give it another crack this evening. Probably me being a fool again and missing something obvious.
Mucho thanks!
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Post by aas on Jun 18, 2020 6:19:42 GMT -5
Tool to hose connections are one of my huge annoyances... I can take my P1CC to any house, business or jobsite in Europe, plug it in and it will work. But I can buy 10+ different vacs from different manufacturers and there is no guarantee I can get the hose to fit, or if it does, that it will stay put. It really isn't rocket science.
Before any suggestion that it is manufacturers trying to lock us in to their products - Makita vac with makita tools - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Mitre saws made for inefficient dust bags - all different sizes across the Makita range, different size ports, hence the Makita vac that should work with it - doesn't!
Makes me feel 'great' plugging an expensive tool into an expensive vac and having to get out some tape to hold it together!
For info, Triton sell some cheap stepped adapters (a Europe model and US model), I cut them down to the correct size and PU glue them into the tool - that way my vacs work everywhere - I just shouldn't have to be doing this in 2020!
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Post by yetihunter on Jul 11, 2020 0:20:46 GMT -5
I was doing a lot of nonstop use with the p1cc back when I had a shop and you could fry eggs on the housing.
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Post by aas on Jul 11, 2020 2:46:44 GMT -5
I was doing a lot of nonstop use with the p1cc back when I had a shop and you could fry eggs on the housing. Mine's 230v, never hot enough to do cooking, maybe it's a 110v thing.
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Post by holmz on Jul 11, 2020 3:47:28 GMT -5
An Aussie burger has the burger, lettuce, tomato, bacon, egg, and a slice of beet root.
So you need more than just cooking the eggs, for a balance diet.
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Post by aas on Jul 11, 2020 7:04:34 GMT -5
An Aussie burger has the burger, lettuce, tomato, bacon, egg, and a slice of beet root. So you need more than just cooking the eggs, for a balance diet. But then you probably don't need to cook the lettuce, so maybe 2x P1CC's will do, one for the burger, one for the bacon.
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Post by hecon5 on Jul 11, 2020 12:35:40 GMT -5
Does the 230v P1cc handle 60Hz ok? Pondering use in my small shop (where I have 230 available) but it's 60Hz...
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Post by aas on Jul 11, 2020 13:26:01 GMT -5
Mafell use universal motors, so will be fine.
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Post by yetihunter on Jul 11, 2020 22:25:17 GMT -5
I was doing a lot of nonstop use with the p1cc back when I had a shop and you could fry eggs on the housing. Mine's 230v, never hot enough to do cooking, maybe it's a 110v thing. That’s quite believable, actually. That and where/how we hold it.
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Post by aas on Jul 12, 2020 1:37:12 GMT -5
The air vents are towards the rear of the body, I don't hold it there. I had in mind the well reported problem of Festool Kapex motors burning up in 110v, but virtually unheard of in 230v - both of these tools made and designed for 230v (Germany), then sold with a different motor because across the pond they want some of our nice European pie (and UK site workers of course!)... I could be talking rubbish though.
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Post by newuser on Jan 25, 2022 3:28:30 GMT -5
Tried to cut 108mm stacked ply with 135mm blade. First cut didn’t look bad but a longer one went skewed and blades are showing out of square (normal w1 as well but harder to see). Can it be adjusted?
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