My re-sizing of the Mft3

mikante

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Here it is, got those long extrusion from uk, cut them to size, I don't think a 200cm long mft3 table is confortable to use, so I made it 160cm long and I think this is the perfect size, can cross cut up to 155cm of large boards and still have repeatable cuts, I've never seen a wider panel than 150cm here in europe, so I think it's more than enough.
The orange top is from Ujk, a brand from england, it costs less and it s roughly the same size of the mdf festool top, and almost perfect fitting, I don't use the bench dog holes for squaring anyway, I use the fence, so I don't care and it looks cool this way!
 

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1550mm is a huge amount of crosscut capacity, I have 905mm (35.5") as that's as much as I can comfortably reach (I'm 6' tall) with a saw or a router, though my fence (there's 3 fences plus a piece of hardwood) is a permanent fixture and can't be moved as easily as yours can. However, I find a capacity in length of 2440mm invaluable as it's the size of sheet goods, but also I can't ever imagine making anything that's taller than that so I expect it will be able to deal with everything I'll ever need it for lengthwise. I have another MFT type worktable that's 8'x4' that expands to 8'x8' which is used for ripcuts and any crosscuts over 35.5" which usually requires climbing up on to the bench to finish off the cut.

 

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That's a very nice and clever set up right there, I like it very much.
In the pictures I have just posted the guide rail is on the short side, but I can join two 1080 together and change the clamps position. Pretty fast. I guess it would be even better to have a couple of more clamps hooked up and with a guide rail already mounted ready to go, so I could move from rip to cross cut right away. Not a big deal without, tough, pretty handy to have.
I know that for longer rip cuts than my 160cm I need to use the old way, a long guide rail and a Starrett square 8), that doesn't bother me at all, most of the cuts I usually do are now well covered.
 
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