Fitted perfectly. I bought as I tried to modify the original top for the bench dogs rail hinge. Even with careful measurements and jigs. Didn’t get it quite right. The replacement top is excellent !
The MFT top is fantastic, unfortunately, the rail dogs are not so good. The design of them was changed, probably to cut costs, However, they said to give more height options. This design change means the dogs keep working loose, totally negating the reason for them. Shame really, other than that really pleased with them
Hi Gavin. Sorry you didn't like my email response regarding the change to the guide rail dogs. The change was due to feedback where the original design restricts the cutting of thinner material like 3mm hardboard. On the original design the lowest was 6mm which wasn’t giving sufficient support and grip to the board below the track. So removing the top part allowed the use of the other measurements to be utilised. There was a cost saving and this saving was passed onto the customers as the price has reduced from the original design. As for them coming loose if you use the supplied hex key this allows you to tighten sufficiently to eliminate this. If you still have problems let us know and we can send you some lock washers but this generally isn’t required.
I bought two of these to replace the stock top on my Metabo tables. Great for fitting Benchdog products. A couple of the Metabo screw hole positions are close to holes on the replacement top, so I plugged these with 20mm dowels and trimmed. Very pleased with the result and will buy again.
Another quality product from BenchDoG Tools. Easy to attach to the saw and creates a accurate scale for crosscuts with excellent repeatability.
