Destroyed my 1 meter MFT rails

[Toller]

The only solution is 2 new ones.  Anyone have a couple gathering dust?
Old style, 1m.

 

[tbellemare]

I have 2 of the long profiles from the MFT 1080 left, part 455242. They are $46.56 each.

It's number 51 in the below picture.

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Tom

 

[honeydoman]

okay,  how did you do it.........

 

[Frank-Jan]

I think Kreg's just curious how he destroyed them...  (Me too btw)

 

[monte]

I think Kreg's just curious how he destroyed them...  (Me too btw)

Any close up shots? ;D

After reading your post, for some reason I thought of a great photo book that I have from a european publisher of this photographer the took photos of accidents in Switzerland.  (mostly Volkswagens and without people)

Here's the books bio.... & link ...... http://www.amazon.com/Arnold-Odermatt-Karambolage-Urs/dp/3882438665

With thoroughness and a meticulous attention to detail, Arnold Odermatt photographed automobile accidents on the streets of the Swiss canton of Nidwalden between 1939 and 1993. For 40 years, the Swiss police office recorded the wrecked cars left in the wake of excessive speed, drunk driving, right-of-way errors, and plain foolishness, in poignant, sometimes funny, and always strange atmospheric photographs. Though Odermatt was not formally trained as a photographer, he made images that evidence a studied appreciation for romantic landscape scenes and a simultaneous attention to the clinical detail of an accident of police procedure. He created them as a personal corollary to the documentary photographs that typically accompany police and accident reports in his picturesque Alpine country. Art historically, they call to mind such diverse sources as Weegee's scene-of-the-crime pictures from the 1930s and 40s, and Andy Warhol's interest in the banal spectacle of disaster and accident in the 1960s. Wholly original and surprising, beautiful and haunting, Odermatt's pictures were only recently introduced to the art world--when Harald Szeeman exhibited them at the 49th Venice Biennale, they were virtually unknown.
magically lucid --Ken Johnson, The New York Times
...weirdly bloodless, black-and-white shots of Swiss auto accidents, reduced to abrupt, detached, and meticulously composed narratives that center around pieces of found metal sculpture. --Vince Aletti, the Village Voice


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[Toller]

okay,  how did you do it.........

You people are vicious.  But okay...

I have a small shop, so I built a hinged outfeed table for my tablesaw and put rails on either side so I could also use it as a MFT.  I don't use it often because it takes a while to set everything up, but when I need it nothing else works as well.

I bought a side mount overhead guard for the tablesaw that mounts to the rear bracket; the same as the outfeed table.  When I tried to fold the outfeed table down, the bottom of the rails bumped up against the overhead guard support.  Suffering from early onset dementia (apparently...) I trimmed the bottom off the MFT rails so they didn't hit.

Yesterday I went to use the MFT table and found the part I cut off was the bottom of the channel that held the slides.  I can still use it, being careful to snug the slides up against the top, but it is awkward to adjust and sometimes slips out when I hinge the saw guide up.

I have the cut off pieces and can screw 30 inches of them to the outfeed table to make it nearly okay, but that will be rather shoddy.  The only good solution is new rails.  I will still have to cut off the bottoms, but only about 10" that I won't need anyhow.

Everyone's curiosity satisfied?

 

[honeydoman]

thanks,  we all do crazy things.  I have done many and then some.  it is always nice to share these stories as well as success.  don't feel bad most of us have done worse.  and appreciate your story.