Festool Domino Machine User manual

The perfect connection.

The DOMINO system user manual.

DOMINO. The perfect connection.

The perfect connection.

The DOMINO system user manual.

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There are numerous draft designs, CAD

drawings, parts lists and documentation

for our DOMINO connecting system. Yet the

conversation and initial drawings where

the idea was formed was on something a lot

less imaginative: a napkin.

But ﬁrst things ﬁrst. To be precise, it was

initially only an informal exchange between

two practitioners in our canteen, pondering

what the optimal domino should be capable of.

And because nothing else was readily avail-

able, they sketched a domino on a napkin to

represent the demand for ‘more stability’.

Then a second sketch next to it for a ‘larger

glue surface’. And ﬁnally a third for absolute

‘rotation resistance’ at the ﬁrst attempt. Using

the simple equation: make one from three,

the foundation was laid for the DOMINO

DF 500 domino system.

What was missing was the ﬁtting hole –

and thus the real challenge began. That is

to say, the development of a completely

new tool. With the typical southern German

inventiveness, inﬁnite passion and the

concentrated expertise of our engineers,

a mix of traditional vertical bore and

simultaneous horizontal routing movement

was created – the birth of the DOMINO

pendulum router principle as the driving

force for the new DOMINO DF 500.

From its origins on a simple napkin, to

a design that has not only revolutionised

the traditional timber joint, but has been

continuously developed since then with

further options: the DOMINO XL DF 700

and the newly developed corner and ﬂat

connectors, forming a complete DOMINO

connecting system. For what has always

been extremely stable, is now also ﬂexible,

with separable rack, board and frame joints.

Two men. One conversation. And the origin of a brilliant idea:

the DOMINO connecting system.

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Contents

PAGE

1 DOMINO joining machine fundamentals 11

1.1 The DOMINO pendulum router principle 12

1.2 The domino slot principle 13

1.3 The DOMINO joining machines: an overview 14

1.4 Performing basic settings for the DOMINO joining machines

Switching on/off

Selecting hole width

Selecting domino length and thickness

Cutter replacement

Depth adjustment range

Height adjustment range

Angle adjustment range

Working with the stop system

Working with extraction

2 The domino 31

3 DOMINO system accessories 37

4 Practical application examples 41

4.1 Overview: making joints with the DOMINO joining machine 42

4.2 Frame joints

Mitred frame joints

Butted frame joints

Stable frame joints with the DOMINO DF 700

4.3 Rack joints and safe positioning of strips 50

4.4 Round proﬁle joints 56

4.5 Stable, separable corner joints 58

4.6 Stable, separable ﬂat joints 66

4.7 Mitred joints 74

4.8 Drawer joints 76

4.9 Butted board joints 79

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PAGE

5 Items included, speciﬁcations 85

6 Accessories 87

6.1 Cutters 88

6.2 Stops 89

6.3 Domino and connector

Domino and domino rod- Beech

Domino exterior use- Sipo

Domino corner and ﬂat connector

7 Supplementary system accessories 97

7.1 Mobile dust extractors 98

7.2 MFT 3 multifunction table

MFT 3 accessories

7.3 VAC SYS vacuum pump and clamping unit

VAC SYS accessories

100

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The DOMINO joint. Simply perfect.

Every timber joint has its advantages. The DOMINO connecting system unites them all. In truth,

there are numerous innovations which were developed on the basis of a spontaneous idea.

Such as the DOMINO connecting system. And yet it is also based just as much on the principle

of thinking ahead. Thinking ahead in terms of a timber joint that uniﬁes the beneﬁts of all

previously existing systems: the controversial stability of mortise and tenon, the ﬂexibility of

biscuits used in furniture making and the precision of the round dowel used in frame and rack

making. We found the key for this in the patented pendulum routing movement and the resulting

slots for accepting the specially formed dominos. For a new, complete timber connecting

system, which assures with the highest possible stability. A connecting system that works simply

and with considerably shorter set-up times and which can be used even for tasks that were

previously predominantly the domain of stationary machines. To date we have not only convinced

many tradespeople, but have been able to ﬁll these people with enthusiasm about an idea that

took a signiﬁcant step further. For timber joints as unique as the DOMINO connecting system itself.

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The DOMINO principle: Fast. Easy. Versatile.

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