Track Saw rail square question

Does 1/32" matter?

Jim Matthews

If your joining panels, straighg and square matters.

If it's the end of panels, and you can plane to square - perhaps not.

It is possible that the guide isn't registered tightly to the track.

Does the track have a center "valley" or channel?

Affix a piece of hardwood that *just* slides through the channel and glue that to your guide.

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If it's runout in the saw arbor, your at the limit of precision.

Re: Track Saw rail square question

John in NM

Are the little plastic guides on the bottom of the saw adjusted for a snug fit on the guide? That's all I can figure.

I've never seen this problem. I've seen dull carbide blades deflect, but I wouldn't expect that in this case, and you said the blade was new. I've also never seen a blade deflect that much, more like half that measurement (chop saw on thick piece of walnut).

Re: Track Saw rail square question

William Duffield

Seneca Woodworking and Woodpeckers both sell parallel guide systems for Festool tracksaws, and they are both much more expensive than your referenced Festool price. I have also seen, a long time ago, how to build your own somewhere on the FOG (Festool Owners Group).

I ahve been buying Festool stuff at estate sales

Barry Irby

The bug bit me. I wanted a Domino for a long time but couldn't get past the sticker shock.

Now I have two track saws, a 55 and a 75. And 6 or 7 pieces of track. Got some of the track for next to nothing from someone who did not know what they had. (It's my favorite)

I looked at various rail square attachments, but again couldn't stomach the prices. So I carefully cut a piece of plywood and made my own. It looks crude because it's just a rectangle without all the fancy cutouts and angles, but the critical part is I now have it tuned up to make square cuts. My idea was to install it with two bolts into the slot in the bottom of the track and then remove and reinstall as needed, but since the tuning turned out to be a bit tedious I think I will just leave it alone and dedicate this piece of track to square cuts. I may convince myself to make a fancier version. Or not.

Thanks for the help

Anybody got plans for wheel on a folded up MFT? That thing is too heavy for an old man to be humping around. Not exactly easily portable.

Re: I ahve been buying Festool stuff at estate sal

William Duffield

This idea might help with the MFT mobility.

http://www.woodcentral.com/woodworking/forum/archives_handtools.pl/bid/3001/md/read/id/469241/sbj/mobility-in-a-moxon/