custom mft tabletop

san

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Hi there,

This is my first posting to the FOG... I came up with a custom tabletop design which in the end should combine a mft 1080 with a routertable for my OF 1010 EBQ. Since my workshop is rather small this seems to be a good combination.
I wanted to share this work in progress so please feel free to ask and suggest.
I made some drawings in sketchup combining previous ideas from other users out there (e.g. mft slab, festop) and went to a nearby carpenter friend who routed the table with his state-of-art CNC machine... awesome process.

The features include:
- a 75 mm grid of 20 mm clamp holes for more clamping options
- a 250 mm x 320 mm hole for a 9 mm phenolic router plate
- a miter channel for an Incra miter slider (hopefully next week)
- bench dogs out of 20 mm brass pipe, cut down to different sizes, sanded and polished. I like those a lot and they cost near to nothing ;-)

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First cuts with my TS 55 were very pleasing - everything seems to be very straight and snug ;-)

Hope you like it,
Best, san

 

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Nice setup. How are you securing the brass dogs since they are the same major diameter as the holes?

RMW
 
I planned on securing them with a brass pin or a steel nail (3 mm)  through a hole I drilled. However, I ended up without using the pins because the fit is quite snug and tiny flakes from the hole drilling did it...
 
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