strongest ball bearing slides that will fit
your table dimensions.
In these two photos I am mating the ball
bearing slides which now hold the skirts
and top plates to the frame. The top
plate assembly slides onto the frame.
That is why you need to mount the ball
bearing slides with the back end of the
slide aligned with the centerline of the
inner-most frame cross member, rather
than the other way around.
Note in the lower photo how
I am using two Festool
MFTs, each with a rubber
pad protecting the finished
top surface, to slide the
whole thing together. I am
moving the MFTs with the
skirt/top assembly held sta-
tionary so I don’t scratch
the beautiful top.
This is just one of many
reasons that I changed my
mind after building the
large, multi-plate MFT-like
table shown in my, “Getting
the Most From the Festool
Multi-Function Table” man-
ual. I subsequently removed the large
multi-plate table from my studio and now
use five individual MFT 1080 tables in-
stead. For the kind of work I do, multiple
MFTs provide
more versatility
than a fixed
size large one.
Confused yet
or are you still
hanging in
there with this
project? Well,
have heart, it
is not nearly
as hard to
build this ta-
ble as it is to
describe how
to build it!
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