Help!!! Jigsaw under table mount

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I saw a guy mount his festool jigsaw underneath his mft so that just the blade was sticking out the top and this would be very useful for me but I have tried and tried to find this piece and cannot. please let me know if you know anything about it or where i can get it, a part number would be even better. i'm not even sure if it was festool brand or not.
 
The only way of mounting a Festool jig saw in a table I know of is the insert for the CMS table. Anything else is probably home made. Maybe one of the readers made one and is willing to show pictures or supply further information.
 
Wim said:
The only way of mounting a Festool jig saw in a table I know of is the insert for the CMS table. Anything else is probably home made. Maybe one of the readers made one and is willing to show pictures or supply further information.

wow i found what you said. that is exactly it so now i wonder how to get it to me and if there are any differences in the mounting between USA and the UK because I can only find it on the festool uk site not the festool usa site...?
 
Not available for sale to us in North America as much as many of us would like one.  Only other ways are you going overseas, someone there buying it and shipping it to you, or buying one 2nd hand.
 
It appears that a combination of insurance product liability and UL pig heads will frustrate the CMS in the USA. Speculation is that the router insert for the CMS has the best chance of passing the USA/UL safety tests.

Going back 50+ years, when I bought my first electric hand-held jigsaw, I used the method a European friend and jigsaw expert used. To see the blade as you do on a traditional fixed jig or coping saw, he used his jigsaw underneath the clamped workpiece. For me this method work even better with the Trion PS 300. That is the one with not just the barrel grip, but the all-important "bump" centered over the blade that fits my palm so well.

Of course to me it would be marvelous to mount my Trion under a table. Quite likely if I were using tools as a hobby I would make a fixture to do so.

However, I own a very large shop. I have many well-paid cabinet makers and others working for me. Workers' Comp and liability insurance are an expensive over-head cost of doing business. I cannot allow any fixture in my shop or on a site where I am responsible that is not UL approved for use In the USA and especially California.

A major reason I do not buy less expensive tools is my faith that Festool puts up with the UL frustrations so all that approval protects businessmen like myself in the event of accidents.

My advice to hobby users is similar. Even if they can use a method that is legal, they are not covered by workers' comp. How would they support their family after a serious and preventable tool related accident?
 
I have inverted my Trion and mounted it next to my inverted router.
I used a similar technique to mounting a router.
I attached a rectangular piece of plexiglass to the base of the jigsaw; which I then suspended from the table.
At the bottom of the jigsaw is a plastic plate screwed on with six M4 screws.
I removed these screws and attached the plexiglass with the same screw holes; using appropriately longer screws.

It is a fantastic tool to use inverted as I can quickly pop in a blade when needed ... and easily remove the blade when not needed, leaving a flat surface.
Make no mistake, you DO need to be careful using the jigsaw inverted:
  (a) the upstroke of the blade can push the wood up if you're not careful
  (b) there is a blade bouncing up and down in the middle of nowhere which would probably not be good for stray fingers
 
If the MFT/3-VL is available over there, you can us the CMS-PS,  it takes the Trion and fits the MFT/3-VL as well as the CMS.

If the insert isn't available, perhaps one of the EU members will be kind enough to send one out to you - it's a non electric item, just a plate that takes the Trion (or the Carvex) and fits the VL or CMS.

Regards,

Job

 
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