Thread: PSC 420 in CMS unit - will it mitre?

HI Brett

I can only partially help.

Does a Festool jigsaw need a special foot plate e.g (WT-PS 400/420) to cut mitres? Or can you tilt the saw on the standard foot plate to cut mitres?
To mount the jigsaw in the CMS plate do you need to swap the standard base with a special base that fits the CMS plate?
If yes, then perhaps you can't do mitre cuts.

But there's always one of these http://www.neutechnik-toolshop.com/p...-jigsaw-table/

I've had the Bosch version for around 25 years

Hi Ian, the PS 300 has inbuilt mitring, but the 400/420 do not and have to have an adaptor plate fitted (which is why they definitely won't mitre in the insert). The 400/420 need a special plate to allow the mitre cut.

Logic tells me that the PS 300 should still mitre, but I haven't seen any evidence of it in all the blurb, which makes me wonder.

That's a very interesting link. It's, ahem, quite a good price too.

Based on how my Bosch jig saw works -- you can mitre with the jaw in the table, you just can't use the splinter guard.

If the PS 300 has mitring built into the sole plate mounting, the arrangement (compared to the Bosch) will be the same.

If the PS 300 needs a different sole plate to fit into the Festool insert plate, then using it to do mitres while in the plate will be problematic.

Thanks Ian. Pretty sure the PS 300 does it in-tool.