I was a bit intimidated by the fact that there is no machined surface where I can mount such a table and that was also my starting point – I took a die grinder with a carbide burr and worked down a surface behind the lower blade guide to be flat and square to the blade:
Using a piece of cold drawn steel and a square I could check my progress:
I did some rough blueing to check the flatness of the surface – Like you would when you are scraping, only that I was using the die grinder with a carbide burr:
The finished mounting surface:
I fabricated a mounting bracked for the table out of some square tubing and some angle steel:
After it was all welded together I machined top and bottom flat:
Drilling and tapping the mounting hole with an M8 thread, using the v-block as a guide to get it square:
Then I drilled the mounting hole into the bracket – The upper hole got opened up to 20mm:
There is a reason for the big diameter of the upper hole: I wanted to protect the square tube from being deformed by the M8 mounting screw, so I welded in a piece of 20mm roundstock that has been drilled trough for screw clearance:
This piece will take all the compression force from the screw without deforming the bracket.
I added two dowel pins for quick alignment:
The tabletop itself is a piece of 200x200x8mm sheetmetal, that I squared up on the outer edges and then machined in the slot for the saw blade:
The hole for the mounting screw got drilled trough into the tabletop and counterbored to get the screw flush with the table:
After a quick coat of paint on the unmachined surfaces it was done:
