Longitudinal Stop for the MFT Works Great!

[rookie08]

Nick,

The stop showed up a couple of days ago.  Once I figured out to use it  [big grin], it saved me a bunch of time today.  I needed to make 10 very large drawers from a closet built in each 33mm narrower in width,  (due to some custom doors I installed.) It required taking each drawer apart and cutting 4 different length pieces for each,( front face, back piece, drawer bottom, bottom cross support), each 33mm less in length.  I couldn't use the regular stop on the MFT fence on the left side of the rail because the piece I needed to cut off is narrower than the rail itself.

Choice 1: For each of the 4 separate size pieces x 10 drawers (40 pieces!) measure 40 times, mark 40 times , line up 40 times , cut, next.  [eek]

OR

Measure out 33 mm with the longitudinal stop on the right once.

slap each piece against the stop, cut, NEXT!

What could have been a very tedious one hour plus job, took less than 10 minutes!

Drawers are back together and back in.  SWEET!

[thanks]

Cheers

 

[GhostFist]

Looks like a kickback hazard or maybe I'm not getting it.

 

[Corwin]

Looks like a kickback hazard or maybe I'm not getting it.

If I'm not mistaken, that stop pivots so you can move it out of contact before you cut.  Then pivot back to setup for the next cut.

 

[GhostFist]

Ok thats fine then [big grin]

 

[rookie08]

Yes, it does pivot, though I thought that was just for moving it out of the way for when it was not being used. 

Thanks for the safety tip!

Cheers!

 

[EdSweeney]

Is there a part number for this?

I was not able to find in my search on the web sight.

Thanks in advance.

Ed

 

[tbellemare]

it's 488564

Tom

 

[fidelfs]

Is there a part number for this?

I was not able to find in my search on the web sight.

Thanks in advance.

Ed

Longitudinal Stop