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squall_line · « **Reply #210 on:** March 09, 2021, 01:22 PM »

Quote from: Dr. P. Venkman on March 09, 2021, 12:49 PM

Quote from: GoingMyWay on March 09, 2021, 10:54 AM
TS 55 REQ-F Track Saw just posted at 10:54AM EST.

Interesting that it comes with a Systainer3.

I wonder if that speaks to the newness of the tool or if they just put an old tool in a new Systainer.

In any event, I would have to think it minimizes your chances of getting a beat up Systainer.

I'll have to check the HK55 I just got; it came in a Systainer3, but I didn't look closely at the manufacture date. My guess is just making sure it's in a nice clean container.

DeformedTree · « **Reply #211 on:** March 12, 2021, 08:16 AM »

I think they might have internal competition to see what the hardest thing they can come up with to sell is, while still getting sold. This is one of the craziest things they have come up with so far.

waho6o9 · « **Reply #212 on:** March 12, 2021, 08:21 AM »

Quote from: DeformedTree on March 12, 2021, 08:16 AM

I think they might have internal competition to see what the hardest thing they can come up with to sell is, while still getting sold. This is one of the craziest things they have come up with so far.

It really is crazy in a good way.

squall_line · « **Reply #213 on:** March 12, 2021, 09:42 AM »

That seems like what you would get if you created a "Pro Demolition Combo Kit" to stand alongside the "Pro Remodeler Combo Kit" and "Pro Finish Combo Kit"

DeformedTree · « **Reply #214 on:** March 12, 2021, 09:45 AM »

I'm waiting for the "kit" which is just 3 CT48's and a Festool Hat.

Cheese · « **Reply #215 on:** March 12, 2021, 09:54 AM »

Quote from: DeformedTree on March 12, 2021, 08:16 AM

I think they might have internal competition to see what the hardest thing they can come up with to sell is, while still getting sold. This is one of the craziest things they have come up with so far.

I'm with you on this one...what are you going to do with 4 battery chargers? This would make more sense if it was teamed up with a MINI/MIDI instead of a drywall vac. Besides, the only tool that hooks up directly to the vac is the OSC but the vac comes with a 36-32 mm hose so you'd have to add an adapter to the little OSC.

Cheese · « **Reply #216 on:** March 12, 2021, 10:08 AM »

Quote from: DeformedTree on March 12, 2021, 09:45 AM

I'm waiting for the "kit" which is just 3 CT48's and a Festool Hat.

The "Kit" would also include 1 each HSK sanding block and a box of 50 each dust bags.

Chainring · « **Reply #217 on:** March 12, 2021, 10:51 AM »

Quote from: Cheese on March 12, 2021, 09:54 AM

Quote from: DeformedTree on March 12, 2021, 08:16 AM
I think they might have internal competition to see what the hardest thing they can come up with to sell is, while still getting sold. This is one of the craziest things they have come up with so far.

I'm with you on this one...what are you going to do with 4 battery chargers? This would make more sense if it was teamed up with a MINI/MIDI instead of a drywall vac. Besides, the only tool that hooks up directly to the vac is the OSC but the vac comes with a 36-32 mm hose so you'd have to add an adapter to the little OSC.

FYI, the 48AC isn't like the 36AC in that the latter comes with the PLANEX compatible hose. The 48AC comes with a smooth 36 hose and a 27mm adapter. It's quite nice.

DynaGlide · « **Reply #218 on:** March 15, 2021, 07:54 AM »

Quote from: GoingMyWay on March 15, 2021, 07:33 AM

CT SYS Dust Extractor is up.

With the old style hose it appears. They also sell a recon version with the new smooth hose for $15 more every so often.

DynaGlide · « **Reply #219 on:** March 16, 2021, 09:03 AM »

There was a DF700 earlier. I think an OF 1010 is going up as well as an OF 2200 today. Good day to watch the Recon.

squall_line · « **Reply #220 on:** March 16, 2021, 09:09 AM »

I'm with Jussi; I figured the Kapex was next and that would be it for the day today.

I should probably wait until I have an actual project for which I need a tool before I pull any more triggers...

Jack01 · « **Reply #221 on:** March 16, 2021, 11:05 AM »

Quote from: DerickC on June 30, 2020, 10:58 AM

We will be bringing the Recon tools back. Currently, we are at minimal staff and working hard to keep our Warehouse team safe and healthy. And to your point, we're focusing on shipping new products and service to keep our Dealers stocked and craftsman working.

Hello
How can I get notified by e mail, text etc. that you have recon tools listed.
I use to get notifications before but stopped about year ago
Thanks

squall_line · « **Reply #222 on:** March 16, 2021, 11:48 AM »

Quote from: Jack01 on March 16, 2021, 11:05 AM

Quote from: DerickC on June 30, 2020, 10:58 AM
We will be bringing the Recon tools back. Currently, we are at minimal staff and working hard to keep our Warehouse team safe and healthy. And to your point, we're focusing on shipping new products and service to keep our Dealers stocked and craftsman working.

Hello
How can I get notified by e mail, text etc. that you have recon tools listed.
I use to get notifications before but stopped about year ago
Thanks

They discontinued the e-mail notices about a year ago; there is no current mechanism to receive e-mail notices directly from the website (and the notices were often stale by the time they arrived in an inbox anyway).

Some people have set up browser plug-ins that notify of a change on a website, some people have set up other mechanisms. I usually just check this thread daily and/or surf to the Recon site every morning to see what's up. I think you can subscribe/watch individual threads through the forum settings, which would theoretically ping you when someone posts in this thread.

Jack01 · « **Reply #223 on:** March 16, 2021, 12:30 PM »

Quote from: squall_line on March 16, 2021, 11:48 AM

Quote from: Jack01 on March 16, 2021, 11:05 AM
Quote from: DerickC on June 30, 2020, 10:58 AM
We will be bringing the Recon tools back. Currently, we are at minimal staff and working hard to keep our Warehouse team safe and healthy. And to your point, we're focusing on shipping new products and service to keep our Dealers stocked and craftsman working.

Hello
How can I get notified by e mail, text etc. that you have recon tools listed.
I use to get notifications before but stopped about year ago
Thanks

They discontinued the e-mail notices about a year ago; there is no current mechanism to receive e-mail notices directly from the website (and the notices were often stale by the time they arrived in an inbox anyway).

Some people have set up browser plug-ins that notify of a change on a website, some people have set up other mechanisms. I usually just check this thread daily and/or surf to the Recon site every morning to see what's up. I think you can subscribe/watch individual threads through the forum settings, which would theoretically ping you when someone posts in this thread.

Thank for the reply. Great suggestions. I will definitely log in every morning to see any updates.
I also would like to set up plug in /extension for Google Chrome for Festool recon page , but could not figure out yet, any suggestions?

madjalapeno · « **Reply #224 on:** March 16, 2021, 12:42 PM »

I'm using one called Check for Change.

Set some text you want it to monitor (I use the SKU), and it will play a sound when the text changes, and bring that page to the front.

Missed all the sanders this morning though, but that's because I was in the shower.

rlsatND · « **Reply #225 on:** March 16, 2021, 12:55 PM »

Unless you setup a monitoring service, you are going to miss a lot of things that pop up very briefly on the recon site. I have setup a script on one of my linux boxes to monitor the site, send me emails and log tools as they come and go. Attached below are this month's sales to date. Easy to see that popular items are usually only up a couple of minutes a week, so the odds of catching one with the random check is going to be pretty small (e.g. Domino 700 has been for sale twice so far in March, first time for 9 minutes, then earlier today for 7 minutes).

Happy shopping,
-- Bob

DynaGlide · « **Reply #226 on:** March 16, 2021, 12:58 PM »

Quote from: rlsatND on March 16, 2021, 12:55 PM

Unless you setup a monitoring service, you are going to miss a lot of things that pop up very briefly on the recon site. I have setup a script on one of my linux boxes to monitor the site, send me emails and log tools as they come and go. Attached below are this month's sales to date. Easy to see that popular items are usually only up a couple of minutes a week, so the odds of catching one with the random check is going to be pretty small (e.g. Domino 700 has been for sale twice so far in March, first time for 9 minutes, then earlier today for 7 minutes).

Happy shopping,
-- Bob

Dang someone grabbed a 2200 Metric for $675 this morning. It lasted a whole minute. This list reminds me I should've paid more attention in programming class.

DeformedTree · « **Reply #227 on:** March 16, 2021, 01:47 PM »

I don't know if it's better to know you completely missed one or not. I had no idea the routers had come up. That's why it's nice to see a list of what is coming up. I have been assuming folks are posting what comes up. But makes sense some things come thru fast that most don't notice.

I haven't figured out when they start in the morning. Sounds like they put some of the more appealing stuff up early in the morning and leave jig saws, CT48s, and planex's for the afternoons.

Yardbird · « **Reply #228 on:** March 16, 2021, 03:15 PM »

Quote from: DynaGlide on March 16, 2021, 12:58 PM

Dang someone grabbed a 2200 Metric for $675 this morning. It lasted a whole minute. This list reminds me I should've paid more attention in programming class.
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Paying attention in programming would have done me no good. I learned Cobol and Fortran, back when you wrote a program on 80 column punch cards and waited hours to have your cards ran on the mainframe. BASIC came much later.

DeformedTree · « **Reply #229 on:** March 16, 2021, 03:42 PM »

internet doesn't support "80 hole COBOL punch card scripting" ? huh, go figure.

RustE · « **Reply #230 on:** March 16, 2021, 05:48 PM »

Quote from: Yardbird on March 16, 2021, 03:15 PM

...
I learned Cobol and Fortran, back when you wrote a program on 80 column punch cards and waited hours to have your cards ran on the mainframe.
...

An Uncle of mine has horror stories about dropping boxes of those cards.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. And programming has never been my forte.

zachjowi · « **Reply #231 on:** March 16, 2021, 08:51 PM »

I managed to get a df500 today in the morning at 7:13 between the of1010 router and other router. I guess I was really really fast to order.

Quote from: rlsatND on March 16, 2021, 12:55 PM

Unless you setup a monitoring service, you are going to miss a lot of things that pop up very briefly on the recon site. I have setup a script on one of my linux boxes to monitor the site, send me emails and log tools as they come and go. Attached below are this month's sales to date. Easy to see that popular items are usually only up a couple of minutes a week, so the odds of catching one with the random check is going to be pretty small (e.g. Domino 700 has been for sale twice so far in March, first time for 9 minutes, then earlier today for 7 minutes).

Happy shopping,
-- Bob

rlsatND · « **Reply #232 on:** March 16, 2021, 09:21 PM »

Times are US East coast (same as Festool US corporate headquarters). Since we had Daylight Savings Time kick in this month, that's GMT-5 before Sunday, March 14th and GMT-4 after.

-- Bob

Quote from: jussi on March 16, 2021, 08:55 PM

Curious what time zone are you in?

Quote from: zachjowi on March 16, 2021, 08:51 PM
I managed to get a df500 today in the morning at 7:13 between the of1010 router and other router. I guess I was really really fast to order.

Quote from: rlsatND on March 16, 2021, 12:55 PM
Unless you setup a monitoring service, you are going to miss a lot of things that pop up very briefly on the recon site. I have setup a script on one of my linux boxes to monitor the site, send me emails and log tools as they come and go. Attached below are this month's sales to date. Easy to see that popular items are usually only up a couple of minutes a week, so the odds of catching one with the random check is going to be pretty small (e.g. Domino 700 has been for sale twice so far in March, first time for 9 minutes, then earlier today for 7 minutes).

Happy shopping,
-- Bob

rlsatND · « **Reply #233 on:** March 16, 2021, 09:39 PM »

My script checks once a minute for updates, so if things are up for less then a minute, it can definitely be missed. At 7:12:34 AM today the OF1010 was for sale, by 7:13:34 the OF 2200 was for sale and by 7:14:36 the MKF 700 was up. Clearly things went pretty quickly there for a bit. Not too surprised I missed something.

Once things go up for sale in the morning, if you check https://www.festoolrecon.com/collections/oneanddone you will see the items that will be up for sale that day and the order in which they will be available.

Congratulations on the timing,

-- Bob

Quote from: zachjowi on March 16, 2021, 08:51 PM

I managed to get a df500 today in the morning at 7:13 between the of1010 router and other router. I guess I was really really fast to order.

Quote from: rlsatND on March 16, 2021, 12:55 PM
Unless you setup a monitoring service, you are going to miss a lot of things that pop up very briefly on the recon site. I have setup a script on one of my linux boxes to monitor the site, send me emails and log tools as they come and go. Attached below are this month's sales to date. Easy to see that popular items are usually only up a couple of minutes a week, so the odds of catching one with the random check is going to be pretty small (e.g. Domino 700 has been for sale twice so far in March, first time for 9 minutes, then earlier today for 7 minutes).

Happy shopping,
-- Bob

madjalapeno · « **Reply #234 on:** March 17, 2021, 12:40 PM »

Quote from: rlsatND on March 16, 2021, 12:55 PM

Unless you setup a monitoring service, you are going to miss a lot of things that pop up very briefly on the recon site. I have setup a script on one of my linux boxes to monitor the site, send me emails and log tools as they come and go.

Happy shopping,
-- Bob

As someone desperate to get a Domino 500, it's great to see they're coming up (however briefly).

(Would you mind sharing the script?)

rlsatND · « **Reply #235 on:** March 17, 2021, 08:51 PM »

PM me an email and I will send it along. Unless you are pretty comfortable with unix command line/bash scripting, probably going to be problematic making it work for you. It is something I just hacked together in like 20 minutes, so will definitely need to be tuned to your environment.

-- Bob

Quote from: madjalapeno on March 17, 2021, 12:40 PM

Quote from: rlsatND on March 16, 2021, 12:55 PM
Unless you setup a monitoring service, you are going to miss a lot of things that pop up very briefly on the recon site. I have setup a script on one of my linux boxes to monitor the site, send me emails and log tools as they come and go.

Happy shopping,
-- Bob

As someone desperate to get a Domino 500, it's great to see they're coming up (however briefly).

(Would you mind sharing the script?)

Christophl · « **Reply #236 on:** March 17, 2021, 09:11 PM »

I wish I was able to use that code as well, I had no idea items could only last a few minutes as I am rather new to the RECON website.

squall_line · « **Reply #237 on:** March 27, 2021, 11:42 AM »

Quote from: Cheese on March 27, 2021, 11:37 AM

The Planex and CT 36 were also up most of yesterday.

Any time I see a Planex or Planex/CT combo, the first thought in my mind is "well, looks like they're out of tools again."

I also can't wrap my head around free shipping on that combo at a 40% discount from retail. Granted, it's probably 40% because of the new model, but still...

DeformedTree · « **Reply #238 on:** March 27, 2021, 12:27 PM »

My guess is Planex's are probably the most returned tool. People buy one to do their house, return it in 30 days. Thus why there are always Planex on recon and always at a good discount.

The CT36 and CT48 have a place I'm sure, but a CT48 is big and now with cyclones, I would think even in shops where the 48 might have made sense in the past, now it doesn't so much. A CT26 with cyclone is only 1" taller than a CT48 by itself. Of course neither is below 36"/900mm bench height. In a non-cyclone world, I guess in a shop the CT48 makes some sense. A bag hold almost twice that of a 26, but only cost 20% more. So there would be some value.

So you have some big vacs that probably most folks don't want now, and a tool that gets constantly returned. I would think festool does all they can to just stop them from piling up on them. Thus the "3 CT48 combo kit" comment.

Blues · « **Reply #239 on:** March 29, 2021, 03:53 PM »

Nobody wants the planex and CT36AC 🤑😏. It's been sitting there. May be the strategy should be that the price goes down 5% each day it sits there? 😎🤠