Hi Alex, we are neighbours
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Maybe you have luck with yours... or I have bad luck with my second hands buy's ... I had 3 CS70, I've tested like 3 others (second hand), and none where perfectly square.. the sellers where surprised...
The problem is that, if the blade is not square to the table, then you
cannot adjust it,
there is no way to correct the alignment, not a single screw....
As for "play", indeed, there was no play in mine too, I should have used the word "flexible"; With just one finger I was able to move the blade when pushing laterally at the back of the blade, it's way more flexible than many other tables I've tested, like Mafel erika, robland, and the dewalt I bought. When pushing "too hard" MDF stock for example, and with no cover on the blade I could clearly see that the blade was under cutting because I received more dust in my face... hence the flexibility.
Of course the LA 70 fence can be adjusted to be parallel to the blade and my cuts where straight.
Can you test yours with two squares against the left edge of the table? I usually had at least 1mm gap trough the length of the blade. The rear of the blade was under-cutting the wood and slightly pushing away the stock from the fence. on all my CS 70 .. I even tought at a moment that it was intentional to no pinch the stock to the fence and avoid kick back..
I do not say that all CS 70 are like mine, your can be perfectly square,
I do just encourage buyers to take their squares with them when buying a CS 70. It's a pitty that I do not had taken pictures, and now they are gone.
Now that I 'm writing I also remember that the surface of the table was not flat near the right of the blade, and when cutting narrow pieces the cut was not 90° vertically because of that.
As positive I have to say that the splinterguard is effective if you do not want to change the blade from rough cut to finish cut. easier to change that than to change the blade. The motor was powerfull and the speed adjust can be a selling point.
I really do like Festool tools, I have almost all my tools in Festool and they perform great and way better than other brands..
Here is one small video where I explained how to "joint" on my CS 70 (my way
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It's in french, but you can select English closed captions