COOL!
What's the weight unloaded? Loaded?
Thanks! I don't know on the weight - I don't have any scales big enough to weigh it...
It will live permanently on my Sys-Roll anyway, so the only issue with the weight is lifting it in & out of my van.
Sorry for the dumb question, but can you explain what you did? I don't understand what the drawers are fitting into.
I only have t-locs and no sortainers.
Thanks,
Anthony
Anthony,
The sortainers are made of 3 types of sections: a base moulding, a top moulding, and then the centre section (which is made up of 2 sides & the shelf/shelves). It's modular, so you can add in more centre sections to increase the height. Here's a picture with the drawers removed:
There's an old post
HERE with some line drawings that explain (I can't believe that post is from August 2007!!! That means it's taken me over SEVEN YEARS to get around to doing this!!!
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).
The sections are held together by very strong, locking, plastic tabs:
There are 4 tabs on each side, and they all need to be pushed in together. Behind each tab however is a little plastic part that stops it from being pushed back! It's designed to be pushed together & locked, not to be dismantled! It takes a LOT of force to push the tabs back and push the support part out of the way at the same time.
I decided to make some kind of tool to push the tabs in, so used a piece of 6mm MR MDF & cut some notches in it to leave 4 'pins':
I then used this, and a couple of clamps, to push all 4 tabs in together. Unfortunately, it took so much force that this was the result:
Back to the drawing board! I then tried various different methods/materials to come up with something similar that would take the required force, including gluing M5 nyloc nuts to a piece of timber to make the 'pins' (the glue gave way & the nuts fell off
), using the MDF again, but saturating the pins with resin to strengthen it (pins stayed intact, but just sheared off at the edge of the reinforcement), cutting the shape required from a think piece of oak (the oak just crushed), and putting screws in a piece of timber, standing proud.
Ideally, it needs making out of a piece of 6mm thick aluminium, but I don't have any & couldn't get any locally.
Anyway, between the various methods I managed to get all 3 sortainers apart, without damaging any of them. Here's one of them:
The tabs holding the top section are much harder to get to, and caused me some trouble!
I had intended to document every stage, but after all the faffing about I forgot to take pictures at various stages!
That looks great Jrb. Can you elaborate on how you went about joining em? I fancy giving it a go....
Once they're apart, it's just a simple, 2 minute job to push them back together.
Jonathan
