Chaos Theory style MFT table base

[sprior]

I just recently got an MFT/3 and would like to put it on a wheeled base to move around my shop more easily.  My thought is to take off the folding legs and then sit the MFT table on top of a new locking wheeled base which would bring it to outfeed table height.  To bring a little Chaos Theory into this I was thinking about instead of using a shelf going across for stability I'd use vertical supports dividing the space in half front to back and side to side which would then have shelf pin holes so I could install pull out shelves for systainers.  So the whole thing would become the storage for all my Festool tools.  I don't care about portability, just being able to move this around my shop.

Has anyone else thought about creating a MFT base with systainer shelves?  It sounds like a good idea in theory, but I'm wondering if there are any problems in practice.

 

[mattfc]

Have a look at this thread, I did something similar, except using aluminium rather than wood, plus mine has a CMS unit on the end
CMS+MFT

 

[stvrowe]

This is another one;  Systainer MFT

I ended up removing the legs of the MFT which provided for additional storage underneath the top.  After almost 2 years of use, the only thing I would change is the small cubby on the end.  If I were to build this again, I would make a recess inset accessible from the very end for clamp storage.

 

[Sparktrician]

And yet another version.

[smile]

 

[nclemmons]

Might give you some ideas:

http://festoolownersgroup.com/member-projects/another-variation-on-a-systainer-port/msg51893/#msg51893

I made this to hold an Inca Jointer / Planer but it could easily be sized for an MFT.  Several here have taken the dowels idea as a way to simplify the pull-out drawers and minimize the wood required to build a shelf and contain the systainers on them.

neil

 

[sprior]

Thanks folks, those are exactly the ideas I was looking for and the Steve Rowe design is almost exactly what I had in my head.  I was googling "custom mft base" and not getting any good hits, I should have been googling "mft systainer".

 

[fastbike]

If you use Sketchup, there are three or four models in the 3D Warehouse to get you started.

I'm building a version of Frank Stacho's (http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-and-tanos-systainers/my-home-made-sysport/) and also rebuilding my bench to accommodate systainers and provide a table extension for the MFT.