I’m not a fan of the new Festool Hose Ends but it’s not a battle worth fighting. I have now learned to run the vac when switching between tools, if not the dust trapped in the voids falls onto the ground. My thing is that I wish Festool would offer both options and let us decide on the ends that we want to use.
Bingo... it’s all about options. What’s wrong with that? Some like the 125 sanders, some like the 150 sanders, some like the 1010 router, some like the 1400 router. Some like the old hose end, some like the new hose end. It may have been a good idea at the time, however, it didn't work out like it was supposed to so...just move on.
Run new ends and old ends, market them both and go on from there. It's only 1 extra part number in the vast sea of 10,000 Festool part numbers. Festool already owns the tooling for the old hose end so that costs nothing.
Sometimes when you put a customer in a headlock while also applying a knife to the solar plexus, the final result just doesn’t quite work out the way the marketeers thought it would.
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