Track Saw Question from New Member

[GerryV]

My First Post so thanks in advance for your advise and I promise to do my best to learn the search function.

We have a new MFT/3 table, TS75 track saw and 55" & 75" guide rails and associated attachments for mounting the track to the table. All of Festools literature and related videos show the track running front to back with the 55" guide.

Is there any formal or informal reason, perhaps safety related, for not mounting the track attachment components onto the sides of the table and running the 75" guide rail horizontally such that I'm cutting left to right rather than front to back?

I'm ripping engineered hardwood flooring and the longer pieces don't fit between the track attachments but the question is really not specific to this one application.

 

[peter halle]

First  [welcome] to the FOG.

Mount your attachments wherever you want if you have the rail long enough (you do).  In fact, if you want to switch back and forth you might want to invest in the 2 extra feather keys and insert them in the vacant profiles.

Peter

 

[Stone Message]

Hi Gerry and welcome

Of course you can mount it that way around. You can use Paul Marcel's or my video to help line it up. I would think that it starts to become a bit floppy with such a large rail. This will lead to less accurate cuts. If you want to do repeated cuts then there may be better setups, perhaps using Rail or Parf Dogs.

Peter