Using a non-Festool router with Festool guide rails?

Toller

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I just bought a TS55 and a 32" rail.

I have three Bosch routers I am perfectly happy with and can't justify getting a Festool router.  Of all their tools, the routers seem least outstanding.
Anyhow, I would like to use the Festool guide rails with my Bosch router.  I can't be the first one to do this, so I am hoping someone can share their successful solution with me, so I don't have to reinvent it.
Thanks.

A few years ago I had a 72" by 30" piece of cherry that only needed one more dado to be ready for assembly.  The router skipped off the straight edge I was using. ARRRGH. Well, I learned to orient it in the future so that such errors won't be seen; but the Festool guide rail looks like a better solution.
 
You can make a wooden or plastic runner to fit over the guiderail extrusion and adapt it to your fence rods to start. If you need fine adjustment check out MicroFence for a solution. Not cheap, but the fine adjustment is as good as it gets.
 
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