Festool MFS Fence System Instruction Manual page 17

Now we can make the cut as shown be-
low. Wear ear protection, use the Festool
dust collector (the CT33 shown below the
table behind me) and make sure you
have the right blade mounted for the cut
you are about to make.
With the TS line of circular saws it is so
fast and easy to change blades that there
never is a reason to force a cross cut
blade to make a rip or to use a rip blade
to try to do a clean cross cut.
A couple of other things to note. In this
sequence of photos the cut I am about to
make is on stock that is thicker than the
16mm thickness of the MFS profiles. As
a result the stock itself supports the guide
rail and keeps it from flexing down. If you
need to cut stock that is thinner than
16mm add sacrificial spacer stock like the
plywood I use either below (much pre-
ferred) or above the work piece so the
guide rail is supported across the full
width of the cut.
If you plan to work on relatively smaller
work pieces, say up to around 700mm
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long (27 1/2"), having the fixed side ex-
truded piece back 60mm from the cut
edge of the guide rail will re-
sult in the 30 marks lining
up as shown before and will
provide good support for the
rectangle to move over this
range. For longer work
pieces it works best to move
the fixed side extrusion back
further away from the lead-
ing edge of the guide rail so
the MFS rectangle will be
well supported when pulled
back more than 700mm or
so.
With this set up it doesn't
matter whether you use one
Multi-Function Table or two
or more joined together.
You don't need to worry about the factory
guide rail support stops. They have to be
removed to attach two or more MFTs to-
gether side to side anyway. No matter
where you set the guide rail, since you
are calibrating everything to it, you can
get perfectly square cuts from any posi-
tion on any number of tables.
For all of your normal cross cuts this set
up is fast, reliable and repeatable. It
doesn't matter whether you need a dozen
pieces all the same size or a dozen
pieces all different sizes. You have the
work piece referenced at 90 degrees to
the cut line by the fixed MFS side extru-
sion and the length determined by the
moveable MFS rectangle acting as your
length depth stop.
Cutting very narrow strips that are all ex-
actly the same width is also easy so long
as the length of the strips is shorter than
the length of the guide rail. The MFS rec-
tangle under the guide rail is now going