Festool Domino DF 500

Festool Domino DF 500

MachineInfoBox Domino DF 500
Synonyms:	DE: Dübelfräse
Type:	Loose Tenon Joiner
Material:	Wood
Used with:	loose tenons
Location:	Saw Station
Access Requirements:	Joinery Machine Introduction
Status:	Working
Manual:	bedienungsanleitu.ng (DE/EN); festoolusa.com (EN)
Tutors:	Lukas Pakue Utis Baumphil
Similar (More or Less):	Biscuit Joiner

The Festool Domino DF 500 is a high-precision Domino joiner.

Key Features:

• Pendulum Milling Principle: This unique milling principle allows for precise and effortless work.
• Adjustable Settings: Moveable step stop for height and preset adjustment for standard material thicknesses, as well as milling height adjustment with a scale ranging from 5 to 30 mm.
• Milling Angle: Mitre milling from 0 to 90° with locking positions at 0°, 22.5°, 45°, 67.5°, and 90°.
• Dust Extraction Connection: Ø 27 mm, ensuring clean working conditions.
• Product Weight: 3.5 kg without accessories.

Work Flow:

Domino Instructional

Changing the router tool:

- Lift the unlocking lever [1-3] until it audibly engages with the fork wrench.

- Separate the motor unit and the guide frame. Press and hold in the spindle lock. Release and unscrew the jointer bit with the fork wrench. Release the spindle lock. Insert the new router tool and reassemble the Domino DF-500.

Adjusting the milling depth:

- Open the notch lever lock [1‑8] by pressing it. Use the locking lever [1‑7] to set the desired jointing depth (12 mm, 15 mm, 20 mm, 25 mm, 28 mm).

For the jointer bit with a diameter of 5 mm, only jointing depths of 12 mm, 15 mm and 20 mm are permitted due to its short shank length.

- Release the notch lever lock again. A special cutter is available for the DOMINO dowel 4x20 mm (due to risk of breakage). Note the following when using this cutter (D 4-NL 11 HW-DF 500): Set the routing depth to 20 mm using the stop lever [1‑7]. The actual routing depth is 10 mm. The dowel can only be positioned centrally.

Setting jointing height:

a) with selection slide

- Release the clamping lever for jointing height adjustment. Using the additional handle, raise the front section of the guide frame. Use the slide [1‑6] to set the desired board thickness (16 mm, 20 mm, 22 mm, 25 mm, 28 mm, 36 mm, 40 mm).

- Press the front section of the guide frame downwards as far as the stop. Close the clamping lever.

b) freely selectable

- Release the clamping lever for jointing height adjustment. Using the additional handle, raise the front section of the guide frame. Push the slide to the stop in direction motor unit. Set the desired jointing height using the scale by moving the front section of the guide frame vertically. Close the clamping lever.

Setting dowel-hole width:

Reliable setting of the dowel-hole width with the rotary switch [1‑2] is only possible with the machine running! The following dowel-hole settings are possible:

13 mm + jointer bit diameter

19 mm + jointer bit diameter

23 mm + jointer bit diameter

Additional stop with extension:

Domino additional stop

The additional stop can be used to enlarge the contact surface when jointing on the workpiece edge, thus allowing safer guidance of the machine. The distance to the centre of the routed hole can be reduced from 37 mm to 20 mm using the two integral stop spacers, allowing you to position the dowel closer to the edge.

- Secure the additional stop to the threaded bores on the guide frame using both screws, whereby the contact areas of the support ring and the table must be level with one another.

- Swivel one of the distance spacers outwards to reduce the distance. The spacer aligns automatically with the stop latch.

Instruction Videos:

Basic board joinery

Joining small parts using the additional extension

Small joints for drawers

Complete Domino Playlist

This tool is not ready for use yet since not all commissioning steps have been completed. The process is not yet tracked on GitHub. Feel free to contribute to making it usable, any help is very welcome!

Task	comment	Status
Name the tool:	-	Done
Take a picture	-	pending
Find the manual as PDF	needed for all machines - add a link to the InfoBox or comment where you could not find it	Done
Documentation	(at least): Document Loose Tenons on Material:Loose Tenons (at least): Integrate Wanted:Domino_Joiner to this page or to Joinery Machines	pending
Print QR-Code	use the MachineQR Factory	pending
Introduction	Will be integrated to Biscuit Joiner Introduction, which will then be renamed	done
Security Check	to be done or witnessed by a manager	pending
Test	to be done or witnessed by a manager	pending
tool's name, owner and approx. value	provide to Johannes for inventorization	Done
Last step: make it available	physically and in the wiki - then delete this template	pending