TS rail levitation

[AlexR]

So hows it done? [big grin]

 

[Rick Christopherson]

You did a nice job. The biggest clue is that the right end of the guide rail has a sharper focus than the MFT of similar distance to the camera. You could fix that with a little blur on that end. The shadows are pretty close, but the saw was lit from the left and the MFT was lit from the right.

 

[copcarcollector]

Line on the handle holds the saw, saw holds the track ? :

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[Davej]

Quite clever but you should have photoshopped the string out of the picture  [tongue]

 

[gkaiseril]

It is better to use clear mono-filament fish line.

Photo shop has a clone tool that can clone background over the line.

 

[AlexR]

Copcar got close but no cigar. Yes ts55 is been hung by a piece of string but the rail staying on the saw is the conundrum?  [big grin]
No photoshop Rick. [wink]  You'll like this trick Rick.

 

[Peterm]

...but the rail staying on the saw is the conundrum?

You'd just lock it on with the 'slop' adjuster thumbwheels, surely?

 

[AlexR]

Like your thinking but nope and no sticky stuff used hear.
And we don't get the anti kick back thingy with ts55 so its not that. [wink]

 

[AlexR]

It's a little MK1 jig I made few years ago that i thought I'd better before posting here but never got round to MK2. [embarassed]
I'll let the pics do the talking.





Some uses.



Main use is to keep saw on track when I hinge track up on my version of a mft.


Also doubles as a rail extender to stabilise cuts of end of rail. I'm going to make inserts to extended the slop adjuster rail part.



So simple yet so useful. Hope you guys enjoyed. I'll post some more unrefined ideas/incomplete projects if anyone's interested.

PS can a mod move this just realised it should have gone in the jig section of the forum.

Thanks Alex

 

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

That's is an awesome jig! Would you care to share any details on it? Sizes etc? Very useful jolig to have  [big grin]

 

[woodwrights_corner]

So simple yet so useful. Hope you guys enjoyed. I'll post some more unrefined ideas/incomplete projects if anyone's interested.
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Alex, I really appreciate these types of ideas and I hope you will post more of them. 

Dave

 

[AlexR]

Thanks. Some more pics.

Holes I used are already there in base of ts55 for parallel guide.


Galway. The rails that go onto the saw are 8mm threaded rod 185mm long. I first use to use the 1010 rods but got tired of switching back.
The two screws that go through the ts base are 6mmx30mm countersunk with washer from the counter top joint bolts and a 6mm wing nut. The perspex/polcarb is 6mm stuff that i got off some chaps replacing the bus stop glass.



I've just knocked up MK1 rail extender support.

 

[badtastex]

Do you mind sharing some more information regarding your pivoting mount as well? I am looking at building my own and could use some motivation/influences.

 

[woodwrights_corner]

Alex,

You are really helping many of us this morning.  It is refreshing to see your "I can make it work" attitude and talents.

I don't know what you call over it there but on this side of the pond we call it great "Yankee ingenuity".  In our southern latitudes I believe it is called "darn yankee ingenuity".

 

[nclemmons]

Simplicity rules.  Excellent adaptation of the saw to keep it aligned and stable on the rail.

With 3-D printers, you could easily fabricate and reproduce these and sell them!

Actually thinking as well that aluminum might be a stronger and easier to tap alternative to the plexiglass.

Thanks for sharing. 

neil

 

[AlexR]

Thanks.
Badtastex i need to find time to remake part of the rail hinge as I've lost the rail attachment bit, think my autistic kid posted them down the mft holes he is defenitly drawn to them. [unsure]
Neilc, the plastic works real good sliding up and down, wouldn't want aluminium on alu sliding. The back extender most defenitly could benift from being alu to stiffen and accuracy.
Woodright, suppose I could live with been a red kneck. [tongue] I grew up on farm in SA, taught me to make do.

 

[EV]

Very nice indeed.

 

[Tinker]

Line on the handle holds the saw, saw holds the track ? :

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for quite a while, i had seen advertisements for the Festo Circular saw.  I don't remember if it was called "plunge saw", but i had always seen it pictured with that strange extension on the bottom.  I thought it was a horribly clumsey extension to the saw plate.  I had no interest in looking for one of those ugly monsters.  One day, i walked into my local toy store looking for a straight edge sort of contraption for liining up long cuts with both my Milwaukee circular saw and for routing straight edges.  As I walked thru the door, there was this strange looking Swiss Cheese type table with that ugly Festo saw and the strange saw plate extension under.  With that first actual look, and a very short discussion, i immedieately placed my order for the MFT 1080, a TS 55 and the 55 " guide rail.  I've since been bitten many more times, but that first purchase of that clumsey looking circular saw was my first sip of the cool aid. :
Tinker