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Michael_Swe

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« on: September 24, 2012, 04:40 PM »

Hi.
I have a router lift in one of my MFTs. I mostly use it with my Incra fence, but sometimes I wish that I could use it with a cross cut sled.

I'm thinking of adding another miter track to the MFT so I can slide a cross cut sled over the router bit. I think this would be great for cutting dadoes in longer pieces. One example is when I want to join strips of wood half-in-half as I'm about to do in a large box project of mine. I'm thinking of putting an Incra track as a fence on the sled to get good repeatable accuracy

Cons that I can think of:
- The new miter track would have to be supported from under the table, or I think the table might flex due to the material I'd rout from the MFT.
- The new track would have to be positioned far to the right so it won't make the Incra fence slide badly due to the groove in the sliding direction.
- Really important to put the new miter track exactly parallell to the other track. Shouldn't be a problem, but some extra job with the precision


What do you think of this idea? Have I missed something? Would it be dangerous in any way (i.e. more dangerous than a router table is in general)

//Michael
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« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2012, 05:00 PM »

Bump..
Did I miss an obvious flaw in this?
Does the silence indicate that this is a relly stupid idea?

I really think I could use this for precision work. But I'd really like to hear from the knowledged forum members if this seems like a bad/unsafe idea.
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Alan m

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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2012, 05:21 PM »

i dontthink it is a bad idea.
i would probably make a new top  that was thicker. then put in one of those miter gauge extrusions with the t track in it aswell.

you dont have to run the slot parralel to the fence if you dont want to. most of your cuts will be on a sled so the fnce wont be used
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