Festool Plug-It adapter for Menzer ETS 150

Replace the cable with a plugit adapter. The change is not easily reversible.

Beware!

The change is not easily reversible! You have to cut the cables since they are glued to the control board. 

I tried different festool replacement parts since they are priced quite differently. Since most models only recommend one partnumber i wanted to list all of the parts that festool offers with the length of the included cabling:

Festool ETS 150  - 492602 - 1x143mm 1x 72mm

Festool 130mm - 489925 - 2x 126mm

Festool OF 1010 - 489926 - 2x 85mm

Festool LS 130 EQ -489742 - 2x 129mm - stiffer cables than 489925.

Needed Hardware:

• Festool replacement part - see above - all of the them fit for this model.

• two #6-32 x ½'' machine screws for fixing the replacement part in your printed part.

• Cableconnectors - i would recommend the ones i used since they come with glue so the fine dust doesn't reach the cables. Dust is explosive, so us be careful! 

• Reuse the Screws, that come with the machine to fix the printed part in place.

To install:

• Open the machine

• Remove the cable, strain relief and cable clamp (just put them to the side, no cutting, yet)

• Install the printed part, but don't screw it down, yet

• insert your festool replacement part

• mark your cables (depending on the used replacement both the cable from the machine as well as the ones from the replacement part

• cut the cable (look at my pictures, don't cut them to short. If you want to reverse the modification you need enough cable in the machine to do fit another cableconnector)

• Install the adapter, secure with screw

• Install the cableconnector with the replacementpart installed in the printed part. if you use connectors like mine you can't put them through the printed part afterward. 

• if you use connectors like mine now is the time to heatshrink them since you can hold them away from the machine and heat-sensitive parts

• Use the screws, that came with the machine to fix the printed part in place, route the cables in a way that the don't get pinched when closing the machine

• close the machine.

My printed part in the pictures is a previous version to the one in the files. i forgot to make the one side a bit thinner so i couldn't close the case. the supplied file fixed this :P

as always: if you don't feel confident with modding your machine, electricity or don't know what you are doing, don't do this mod. Please don't kill yourself since i don't like paperwork.  this mod will void your warranty on the machine since you have to cut the power cable inside of it.

a huge thankyou to https://www.printables.com/@gwendal and https://www.printables.com/@SmidtBuilds

my file is a remix of gwendals

which worked great for my makita router as well as the clones of it!

also here is the link to the files from SmidtBuilds which was the source for gwendal.

i printed his files as well since festool stopped selling their cable replacement sets and they are a perfect replacement but i went the route with replacing most of my machine cables with fixed adapters. these adapters also fit the connectors i used in this project, which is a plus!