You are very clever. I love seeing people develop their own solutions to make requirements work based on the parts / space / budget they have. This is inspiring! Thank you!

This is absolutely genius! On top of it costing lesser, the hinge is slimmer than any other solutions I have seen so far.

I have been following the UK woodworking scene for while and it is always fascinating how great everything is explained. Simple solution for simple man.

Just what I needed. Great idea, mate.

Brilliant. This just jumped right up my todo list for the workshop!

Fantastic mate, just what I have been trying to figure out!

Just what I have been looking for. Simple but ingenious.

Great idea. Simplicity at its best.

That’s great. You’ve got a wonderful setup. Thanks for sharing!

Ingenious! I love it. Cheers 👍😎🇦🇺

Really clever & just the problem I needed solving! Brilliant! Thanks!

Very clever solution, thanks for taking the time to share!

This is brilliant, true ingenuity!

Well done. Great to see someone who can see the problems and find a solution. Great job 👏

I have just finished my mft workbench and was looking for something just like this. Looks perfect for my needs! Great work!

That is such a great alternative to festool system. Need some work to make but for a hobbiest is a great addition. Well done.

Brilliant. Thanks for sharing your invention. I may need to make one like it.

Brilliant!!! Nothing like old school.

Great video. What a neat solution.. thanks for uploading.

At the risk of being repetitive - Brilliant!!!

Just seen this and I think it's a brilliant idea. Thanks for sharing.

One of the best I've seen thankyou

The rail hinge system is awesome. Simple, effective.

Very helpful demonstration indeed, thank you

This is a brilliant solution, would love to see a more detailed follow up video 👍.

This is superb. Thank you. Been searching all over for a solution to use my track (Evolution) on a hinge with my MFT top in my small workshop. I see you plan to update the video at some point. I look forward to seeing that. Many thanks. Great work.

Simply brilliant mate, best hinge design yet, well done

@conkcat

4 жыл бұрын

Adrian Jennings thank you

Thanks for sharing. Very informative and useful demo.

Great idea, I shall be using your idea. Great video

I love it! A true engineer! 👍😁

@conkcat

4 жыл бұрын

El Guapo thanks

That’s the best set up so far

This is precisely what I'm trying to achieve for an MFT top I'm going to make for my hobby workshop. Thanks for the video and how timely it was.

Great solution for an unnecessarily expensive system. Thank you for sharing.

Absolutely brilliant !

What a great bit of engineering 👍🏻😎

Genius setup sir.

This is excellent - thank you.

Very good that's what you call thinking outside the box 👍👍

That's a great setup!

thanks mate. from Sydney.

This is brilliant! Well done!

This is incredible.

Excellent solution simply executed 👍

Sheer genius. You clever man!

You legend! Just solved my problem with that double hinge configuration and saved me £££ 🎉🎉🎉

I have the Festool version and it is very frustrating to use at times. Congratulations for a great idea.

That hinge is a great idea!

Very good that for limited space 👍 well done 😃 from 2cupskev 👍

this is a great idea. thank you

That’s clever. Thanks for sharing

Superb, thank you! This is getting made very soon

Neat solution. Very clever.

Excellent I purchased a MFT by mistake with no accessories. Festool rarely tells you what you need in total. I have called them to change it and I received a 300 dollar list of parts. You are the first person to have given me a means of doing the best with my error. Very very good simple complete and thorough. Thank you

@conkcat

5 жыл бұрын

Your welcome, Thank you so much for your comment . I looked also, people were always asking for a solution. I hope I have one. I am I the process of modifying the front clamp from screw to a cam clamp I will upload as soon as possible

Brilliant - thanks very much!

You put together a nice, succinct, and useful shop visit. Evidence that others agree, though KZread hasn't promoted you, is that the average good video moves 1 in 50 viewers to like it. The real stinkers get fewer than 1 in 80 likes. You've had 1 in 25 viewers express their liking... including me. Thank you.

Parabéns, excelente idéia. Like e mais um inscrito.

Excellent work. Great vid. New subscriber.

this is such a great video, i am trying to build a similar system

Clever man 👍

Great Idea. Thanks

Brilliant. Thank you

Really good idea would be interested in more information regarding fold down track

Very ingenious! I'll build something like this!

Very nicely done! 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪🖖

yesssss!!!!! thank you it helped great idea as a beginner you have to be creative just to make the money rol in and you can buy expensive stuff 😬 thank you 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Very nice. Just what I need.

Best solution I have seen so far. Better than Festool original or the alternate rail hinge products Peter Millard presents. Also better than his self built one. So simple, so good. Especially as you also fold away the whole table. Genius :-)

@conkcat

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou very much for the comment it means a lot to me that I can pass on a solution to a problem, that is simple to make , cheap and gives better service than the original. am sure others will copy it, I just hope they don’t “steal” my idea as their own. This you see a lot on KZread. All I need the recognition that the original idea and concept was mine, and of course more subscribers. But once again Thankyou for your comment .

Great design

A quick follow up to my previous question about fixing the hinges together, as I don’t have a welder I found a product called JP Weld which is an epoxy resin containing slivers of steel. This worked perfectly and I’m also planning to use it to fix the hinges to the bottom of the rail.

@conkcat

4 жыл бұрын

John Deadman well done John. I am happy you have found a solution “ where there’s a will, there’s a way”

@josephKEOarthur

2 жыл бұрын

John do ya have an example of the JP Weld solution / material you used on the hinges?

Brilliant! 👍Thanks, 🔧Lisa♿

Very clever indeed.

Nicely done!

@janburger4230

3 жыл бұрын

You clever man, you should sell this to Festool. So brilliant! You genius!

I did the same hinge as you at rear, but at the front end I used hinges again but linned them up with two dog pins entering two dog holes holes in mft top so a total auto hight adgustment, and where saw blade runs I have drop down sides using auto lock shelf hinges its got a 140cm track, so its at mft top about 60cm. x 150cm, with drop shelfs at far end so can support about 180cm width at rear, at front it just has 2 telescoping tubes to support wood if needed so when folded down i can walk down each side of the mft bench. another handy thing i added are 3D printed dog hole flush plugs that just sit in the beveedl top of dog holes to stop those screws falling though the unused dog holes, and they will not damage tools or blades. the only negative, is its horizonal space for junk to be put on!

@conkcat

Жыл бұрын

Good to see an evolution of a solution.

Ya I’m using the slow steady hinges from home depot , rather than the plain galvanized ones - that have more give/loose. The steady ones are perfect, but slow hinges…. Good and precise.

This is genius!

Brilliant !!!

nice work.

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Two questions please: 1: How have you fastened the hinges together and to the rail? 2: Where did you get the aluminium sections? Great video. Looking forward to seeing more.

@conkcat

4 жыл бұрын

John Deadman The hinges are welded together, but could be bolted. It is important to leave room underneath for the hinge to fold into at the lowest height. The hinges are bolted to the track saw with countersunk screws and tapped into the hinge plate. The aluminium section was what I had from an old project, I think I was given it, but it can be purchased it’s called 80/ 20 I have found though that if you use two of the tall dogs you can keep it at 90 degrees and it doesn’t need the front guide as it will set down on the board you require to cut very securely. I really need to revisit this and go through all the questions people have asked, and maybe explain again more clearly. My next video when I get back to Uk will be a metal lathe rebuild. But I fit the track saw revisit in first. Glad you like it.

@josephKEOarthur

2 жыл бұрын

@@conkcat love to see this revisited, thanks so so much!

@conkcat

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephKEOarthur will do this at some point, but am so busy being retired, I have no time at present with other projects, I have 2 new hinges to attach together , this I will show, I have an idea how to re present this project so let’s hope I get a day free soon

Very nice.

Thats brilliant.

Well done mate

Pure genius

Very nice execution. It's probably plenty accurate.

Brilliant.

Perfect!

Very clever 👍

Awesome video this is exactly what I need! how did you fasten the hinges together and did you make the MFT top or buy it?

Very cool

Brilliant, A spring loaded pin up front would make everything self adjusting👌

@conkcat

2 жыл бұрын

I tried it spring loaded but couldn’t get it as accurate, takes 5 seconds to adjust so not an issue really, but thanks for the comment

clever stuff

Awesome

Very good solution! Thanks for sharing

This is exactly what I have been seeking! Excellent. How have you attached the rail to the hinge while still allowing the saw to pass over the fixing?

nice feature

Top drawer thinking mate. Subbed! The two who voted no are just stupid.

Great ideaI I've only just seen this and although your video has been on KZread for a while now I'm wondering if you'd considered adding a spring under the front mechanism to save having to lift or depress it (to accommodate different thickness work pieces) before tightening in position?

@conkcat

3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou kindly for you comments . It was a thought, but there was not enough room in reality with that unit. At the moment the area where this track saw unit was is now taken over with my cnc build and new laser, so it will have to find a new home somewhere in my emporium of dirt.

Sometimes solutions don’t have to be complicated or cost a lot

Thank you! This looks great! I didn't quite understand how the slop in the hinge was mitigated. Is it the hinge that tightens up as the rail is brought down, or is it the front support that squares it?

lol that looks great

Excellent and elegant! Thanks a lot for the tip! I looked thru the comments but didn't see if you mentioned where you got the aluminum extrusion for the fence. I Googled it but didn't find any that look like yours. Happen to have a link? Thanks.