Thread: Kapex 120 will not crosscut in a straigth line

Originally Posted by Dengue

My Festool Kapex is terrible. It will not crosscut a dead straight line over 300 x 19mm wide pine board or MDF board as it is supposed to do. Tends to head to one side at first, straightens up, and then tends to turn back. So looking down on the finished cut, it is like the long elongated side of large oval shape cut.

Any suggestions on possible causes and how to fix it please?

Beg, borrow or steal another blade and try it or get the present one sharpened would be my initial guess. Until that is done you really can't begin to trouble shoot it.

probably a new blade needed just through wear and tear or have you recently jammed and stopped the blade crosscutting in a piece that closed down on it.
This has happened to me and i bent a blade.

Thanks for these ideas, I shall go and find another blade

I had a similar issue with my TS55. Could only be track or blade. Turns out it was the blade.
Regards
Les

Have taken your advice and a new blade arrived yesterday. Waiting to get in the shed, 42 degC here the past 2 days, not venturing out of aircon house

Originally Posted by Dengue

Have taken your advice and a new blade arrived yesterday. Waiting to get in the shed, 42 degC here the past 2 days, not venturing out of aircon house

Bring the saw in?

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

Bring the saw in?

But that would mean venturing outside away from the blessed aircon?

Can't do it at night either, crocs might get him.

[QUOTE Can't do it at night either, crocs might get him.[/QUOTE]

Actually, it is the resident taipan that I am more worried about. I am hoping the death adder gets him first