OK, who's gonna be first?

[Rick Potter]

Just got an e-mail offer from Woodcraft. A Festool flashlight for only $175 (no misplaced decimal there). So, who's gonna be first to grab one? This has to be a bit over the top, even for Festool.

Rick Potter

[George Gyulatyan]

Does it come with dust collection port?

[Rich Engelhardt]

This has to be a bit over the top, even for Festool.

Ever price really good flashlights?
A buck seventy five is on the low side - depending on the specs.

[Mike Heidrick]

"I just bought the Flashlight CT36 Vac combo". NOPE

[Matt Meiser]

I've had mine since mid summer.

First, its not a "flashlight" its an LED work light you can set a number of different ways on its own--something you can't do with a flashlight. Its got a threaded base for attaching to a tripod or other camera mount. I bought a suction cup mount for video cameras for $30 that works great on a window or appliance. Its got a built-in battery pack with wall and car chargers, and you can slide most Festool drill battery packs on for even longer runtime. And its been out for a while.

I started looking at LED worklights doing my laundry and 1/2 bath. Any incandescent/halogen light heated up the rooms very quickly since they are so small. The price on the Festool isn't bad at all when you consider the features. The only other ones I could find to look at in person were $80-$100, made in China, with very mixed reviews. The $80 one was AC only which would have limited its uses. I've bought lights from the other company in the past and they were not what I'd consider to be high quality. Both were physically much larger but not as bright.

The flashlight for my Milwaukee M18 tools is nice, but its a flashlight. This is a worklight.

[John Coloccia]

http://www.woodcraft.com/product/208...l-dcl510-.aspx
And that's just a small flashlight with with no battery or charger.

And look here and see what a good LED flashlight costs.
http://www.lighthound.com/Flashlights_c_13.html

Why not read up on it, and watch the video. If I was a pro that had to work in dark conditions, I would be all over this and it would be a bargain.
http://www.festoolusa.com/products/c...00-498568.html

[Stephen Cherry]

looks pretty nice, and as Vince from the shamwow ad said, the Germans make good stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvP_bCnS2I

[John Shuk]

It looks pretty awesome from the video. I could really use that at work but @ $175 I won't ever bite. I tend to get by.

[Andrew Pitonyak]

Does it come with dust collection port?

Well DUH, yeah! The suction spins a little turbine that powers the flash light and saves on battery power.

[Rod Sheridan]

Well DUH, yeah! The suction spins a little turbine that powers the flash light and saves on battery power.

LOL, use a few hundred watts to spin a turbine to generate a couple of watts.................Very funny............Rod.

[Jacob Reverb]

<Snikker.>
I'm holding out for the $5000 model.

[Alan Schaffter]

175$ do they throw in a Kapex?

[scott vroom]

Festool is rumored to be working on a fur-lined sink.

[Jacob Reverb]

Festool

[John Coloccia]

Personally, I find it unseemly to be bashing a company for making high end products. This thread is a perfect example of what's driving the race to the bottom. Thank heavens for a company like Festool that can ignore all of this nonsense and make professional tools...just like we used to have before the US consumer drove the market to disposable, Chinese garbage.