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Post by hecon5 on Jun 22, 2020 12:50:31 GMT -5
Is the Bosch FSN OFA kit discontinued?
I had one on order, but it was just cancelled and now listed as "unavailable".
Does anyone know where I can get one?
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Post by aas on Jun 22, 2020 14:22:38 GMT -5
Have a look at German sites, seems to still be available on a few.
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Post by hecon5 on Jun 22, 2020 20:26:25 GMT -5
Looking; some I've found explicitly state they won't ship to the US, specifically. Not sure if that's our dear leader's new "trade winning", or COVID. Either way I'm now on the struggle bus to find a kit that's less than the cost of parts separately.
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Post by kraftt on Jun 22, 2020 21:58:35 GMT -5
I’ve found that with some UK/Euro tool stores that if you email your request they decline as they would be putting in writing that they are flouting rules / territories. But when you call them and speak in person their attitude often changes.
Wonder if Bosch has something coming to replace it (?)
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Post by hecon5 on Jun 23, 2020 8:40:20 GMT -5
Evil corporate overlord version: Buy the parts separately cause we make more money.
Probable reason: Not enough buyers to keep making it now that most people who care have one. Except me. I want one. I just can't reason the cost and effort to part it together since it comes out to ~$100 or so more (even buying from EU).
Makes me ponder the Duo for pins, but what I really wanted was to be able to use it to line my router up off my rails. Even the MicroFence doesn't make a rail guide for the Bosch/Mafell rails and has no plans to do so after I contacted them last week.
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Post by Eoj on Jun 23, 2020 9:10:12 GMT -5
Evil corporate overlord version: Buy the parts separately cause we make more
Or we are in the middle of a global pandemic ,factory workers safety and allProbable reason: Not enough buyers to keep making it now that most people who care have one. Except me. I want one. I just can't reason the cost and effort to part it together since it comes out to ~$100 or so more (even buying from EU). Makes me ponder the Duo for pins, but what I really wanted was to be able to use it to line my router up off my rails. Even the MicroFence doesn't make a rail guide for the Bosch/Mafell rails and has no plans to do so after I contacted |
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Post by hecon5 on Jun 23, 2020 9:34:03 GMT -5
I'm patient; please don't mistake my desire to get one of these with disdain for workers and distribution systems. This is much more a case of wanting to find it and trying to figure out if it's that I'm bad at finding it than "why can't I find anything I want right now, safety and sanity be damned!"  |
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Post by skinee on Jun 23, 2020 17:22:37 GMT -5
Is the Bosch FSN OFA kit discontinued?
I had one on order, but it was just cancelled and now listed as "unavailable".
Does anyone know where I can get one?
axminster.co.uk has some of this and ship to the USA(inexpensively too by most accounts) the full kit is listed as out of stock but will be available in about a week,other bits and pieces are available in stock,hope this helps. |
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Post by hecon5 on Jun 23, 2020 18:41:47 GMT -5
I've my eye on them, they've said out of stock for a few weeks, but will keep checking.
Thanks all!
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Post by kraftt on Jun 23, 2020 20:45:20 GMT -5
Out of curiosity I did a quick search on ebay.co.uk and some kits are available. Don't know if pricing is good or not. |
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Post by jglatz on Jul 3, 2020 13:17:37 GMT -5
I was looking for this exact kit recently and spoke with some tool vendors here in the US and they said NAINA. I was, however, able to piece together the items I needed. From what I've been told, currently in the US Bosch is overwhelmed and orders are are taking about 2-3 weeks to fulfill. Here are two sources of the tracks with the 32mm holes:
FasToolNow.Com
ToolNut.Com Note that while the FasToolNow prices are slightly higher, the order will drop ship directly from Bosch in Arkansas once fulfilled. ToolNut does not drop ship, so it will add about an extra week to the delivery time.As far as the router plate and pin+stop goes, i got them from Amazon UK (shipping was combined for both items and came to 24 GBP): I ordered the plate and pin on 6/24 and just got notice today (!) that they have shipped by DHL and should be getting them 7/7. I placed my order with FasToolNow on 6/26, spoke with Nate yesterday and the bosch agent indicated they will likely ship at the end of next week.
FWIW, I picked up the track connector plate (FSN VEL) from Tools Plus: I hope this helps! |
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Post by hecon5 on Jul 5, 2020 6:52:57 GMT -5
Thank you! I'll look into those.
Axminster has it back in stock, but won't ship (that) to me :/.
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Post by mkegel on Jul 8, 2020 15:47:19 GMT -5
Axminster must have changed policy, as they shipped Bosch FSN OFA 32 Complete Guide Rail Kit 506725 to me last April.
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Post by hecon5 on Jul 9, 2020 7:09:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's a pretty recent thing; I may give them a call when I find some free time and see if their online policy differs from their phone shipping.
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Post by aas on Jul 9, 2020 11:56:21 GMT -5
If you click at the top of the page on the site, you can choose country and currency - they have resumed international shipping after the recent difficulties - but they're out of stock of the OFA kit!
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