Festool MFT 1080 - Rail Dogs

[Tom R]

I recently purchased a combination pack of 2 Rail Dogs and 2 Quas dogs, to use with the MFT table. Recently working I needed a third Quas Dog but the Rail dogs do not have the ?stop shoulder? like the Quas dogs. They pass cleanly through the 20mm hole in the tabletop. So I went down to the local NAPA auto parts store and purchased 2 rubber pipe stoppers, with an ID range of 3/4? ? 7/8? closing range. The stopper have a bolt and nut that when tightened compresses the rubber sleeve that surrounds the bolt.

I had some 1/8? scrap aluminum plate and cut a 6? x 6? square and scribed the center-to-center pattern of the 20 holes in the MFT tabletop. I cut three of the hole out to 13/16?, just slightly larger the table holes, drilled the last hole to fit the Quas Rail mounting Bolt / Shoulder. Mount the Rail Dog in the 4th hole, slide the Rail dog / plate assembly under the table, slide the Rail dog through a table top hole, then insert the rubber pipe plug into the 20mm table top holes and tighten the plugs, and you are done.

The pipe plugs I purchased from NAPA need a wrench to tighten them up, I may purchase some plugs with ?T? handles for ease of installation.

Tom R.

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[Corwin]

Umm.....  and what purpose does this serve?    [scratch chin]

 

[Tom R]

The purpose was to show a jig to allow the use of a tool in a way it was not intended

Tom R.

 

[Corwin]

The purpose was to show a jig to allow the use of a tool in a way it was not intended

Tom R.

Huh?  I was just trying to understand what you were doing.  And, I still don't see what this does.  Care to explain?

 

[Tom R]

I simply made a jig to use the Rail dogs as Quas dogs..................That's it.

Tom R.

 

[Brice Burrell]

I simply made a jig to use the Rail dogs as Quas dogs..................That's it.

Tom R.

Tom, I don't how this solves your problem since the rail dog still isn't the same diameter as the Qwas dogs.  When used as shown in your rail dogs 4 jpg picture you'd run into problem with the different diameters.

 

[Tom R]

Since I have two Rail Dogs, I built two separate jigs, and use them in pairs, and don't mix with  the Quas dogs
with setups

Tom R.