Saving your MFT top

[ezdrive]

I just had a really stupid thought.  I have been planning to make my own replacement MDF top for my MFT.  I purchased a 20mm Fostener bit and planned on just using the existing top as a guide to drill a bunch of holes.  I first cut the MDF to size and made the first holes for the mounting screws.  Then it came to me...Wow...what am I doing?  I don't need the holes to use the built on saw guide!  Am I the only one that has thought of this method of preserving my MFT Table Top?  I just did not want to have saw marks on the surface.  MDF is cheap, the replacement  MFT top is expensive.  I am hobbiest and am just trying to save money to buy another Festool!

Ray

 

[tjbnwi]

I just place a piece of cardboard on the top when I cut any place on the top except for the kerf at the cross cut rail.

Tom

 

[sancho57]

Its a work table, mines look like a work table.  The groove cut in the table when using the guide rail Ive even cut into the aluminum before. I got tired of filling it with bond so I just routed a 3/8 X 2" groove dove tailed the edges and plane and route a sacrificial pieve of wood to go in it. I replace it as necessary.

I use sacrificial ply so I dont cut into the table, but it has its scars, recent while plunge routing I plunged the router bit into the table and put a nice 3/4 did hole in it, I filled it with bondo sanded flat .

Thats the beauty of the MFT drill and fill