American Tools

[mbartlett99]

Hi Y'all

Will be heading over to the USA for a bit and had thought about stumping up for a Festool Domino while I was there. Obviously the voltage is different but I'm not sure how it will work with the different frequency. Yes it will run 18% slower but does anyone know if the different frequency will affect the electronics? Cheers.

 

[Chems]

I bought my domino in New York, I run it on a UK 110v site box. Works fine. I had to buy a 110 plug it cable. I don't think it runs any slower than the UK domino. It also registered for its Warranty fine in England too.

 

[mbartlett99]

Cheers, just wanted to be sure. Got a lot of 110V gear so not a problem.

 

[mailee]

Did you actually get the Domino much cheaper Chems?

 

[Chems]

Yeah I think at the time two years ago I got it for £425. The best bit was that it was the version with the pins not the flip down rubbish that they had to fit after they got sued by someone. That was pre 2 price hikes and I think the dollar pound was about the same as it is now. I think its list price £650 now. But I hear another price hike to bring UK prices in line with EU are coming so its probably going to go up again.

 

[kirkpoore1]

Looks like the Domino is listing for $800 at two of the usual places (Woodcraft and Rockler), plus tax of course (figure 7 or 8%). So figure maybe £550 plus whatever it takes you to get it back in country.

Kirk

 

[Chems]

$697 when I bought it with tax, glad to see the americans are getting the price hikes as well.

 

[goldeneyedmonkey]

Quick product search on Google.com: You can get it for £460 from Burns Power-Tools. As long as you don't have to pay any customs charges then it's a nice saving of £150. Good effort. I looked into getting the new Ipad sent over, but all the charges all but wiped out any profit made. But I've got a mate over there now, so might see if he'll bring some back maybe, I think you'd make about £100 profit on each one. I will probably wait till the new one comes out and do it that way.

Good luck with it. _Dan

 

[stuartpaul]

One thing you really need to be aware of now is suitcase weight!

Nearly got caught out recently, - they wanted $100 for 2 pound over weight (I made the missus wear 4 jumpers!).

Never had a problem this end even with a case full of bessy clamps (pre 'enforced' suitcase weight limits!)

For those who don't have access to 110volt transformers I run my american stuff (mostly battery chargers) off a simple plug in converter (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/UK-240V-USA-110V- ... 4cf7e82a7b)

 

[Chems]

I tried that exact model with the domino, didn't work. But it does work to charge my floor cleaning robot

 

[mbartlett99]

That model is only rated to 45W - I've got them for my battery tools. Surprised you didn't blow to pieces with a domino plugged.

 

[Chems]

The domino just went really really slow.