Zero Clearance Plate

Maybe clamp a couple of 2×4s to the table saw top, along each edge of the throat plate to hold it down?

-- John, BC, Canada

Clamp a board over the throat plate, turn saw on, raise blade. Make sure where you clamp the board down isn’t directly over the blade so you can see it when it pops through.

-- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet.

they said it best, a clamped board works good, just make sure you dont stand directly behind the saw (as you never should anyway) but now is one of the more important times to remember that rule. And whenever you go to make one make up more than one “blank” at a time, you’ll thank yourself later on when this zci wears out and you need another… i may have learned from past experience lol

-- A hammer dangling from a wall will bang and sound like work when the wind blows the right way.

there you go; I did it exactly this way. The only thing about the MLT is that you need to add something to the bottom otherwise it is not stable enough and will bend and bow when you saw small pieces.

-- Whoever finds mistakes can keep them. English is a foreign language to me.