STM loading plywood... with XPS foam underneath?

[louder]

Hello all. I'm looking for a solution to allow me to use the sheet loading capability of my STM, while getting a sheet of XPS under. I realize the support are renewable, but I notice a lot of sag and uneven cut issues without some support under the sheets I'm cutting.

If the loader feet (whatever they're called) were about 1.5" longer, they'd easily let me throw a 2" XPS board and a 3/4" sheet of plywood down. As it is, to get my board under, I have to just throw the plywood up on top and try to align it, which is not really in line with my motivations for buying the STM in the first place (minimizing annoyance loading sheets on my own).

Has anyone experimented with modifying the STM to support this? Festool said this isn't something they plan to support, of course.

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[thudchkr]

I would just take the item you wish to cut and a couple of spring clamps or other clamps to hold the two together.  The STM will easily load the two together and you could just take the clamps off to do your cutting. 

 

[sancho57]

Ive just bought a couple of extra brackets, sized the wood like the OEM ones screwed them to a sheet of MDF and used it as  an assembly/ cutting table. Last one I made I ripped the mdc down the center at 24" as it made it easy to put on and take off as needed.

 

[Imemiter]

Ive just bought a couple of extra brackets, sized the wood like the OEM ones screwed them to a sheet of MDF and used it as  an assembly/ cutting table. Last one I made I ripped the mdc down the center at 24" as it made it easy to put on and take off as needed.

I was wondering about that. I don't own an STM, but it seems like it'd be a wildly customizable device.

 

[louder]

I feel pretty dumb to have not thought of the clamp idea. Good grief lol.

It also looks like the feet themselves could be replaced with a piece of steel or something cut to size. There's even an extra hole on them that seems like it's meant to attach something, but I'm not sure if they are designed for that sort of shift in force distribution.