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Both will give you extremely good accuracy, so in that sense you won't go wrong with either. If you are ever going to down the MFT road, you will wish you had festool track vs a mafell one, but thats fairly niche. The track joining system on the mafell tracks is way better than the Festool, with which you risk knocking them out of alignment when moving the track. If you are doing rips on full size sheets I would budget to get a single piece long track, at least 2.7m long if you go for the festool.
Lots of videos comparing the two on YT, have a look.
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I have both and moderately prefer the Mafell. Only problem is I would be inclined to go with Festool because of the system rails. The TS55 did all duties until I eventually put it in the CMS system saw table and now it's there most of the time.
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You want to run an extractor with them regardless, as the blade is so enclosed it can get fairly clogged up (or so I was advised by my wise old joiner colleague).
I have the Mafell, don’t regret it at all. Much prefer its sturdiness (perceived or otherwise) compared to the festool.
The mafell will run on festool rails, and if it’s only the saw your considering I’d go mafell. But there is a whole system of festool stuff that ties in with the rails.
Mafell have some tools that work with their rail, but it’s not really anything like what festool offer.
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Ok then time to pull trigger on plunge saw. I think I could spend on a Festool TS55 or Mafell MT55CC as we have a lot to get through.
I saw the video posted a few days ago I'm not tied to spending the money. Top priority is one which is easy to get good accuracy and lowest priority is dust collection as we are only one step away from a building site.
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