Custom Sysports

[rnt80]

I finished these up this morning.  I'm in the middle of another job now but got sick and tired of moving systainers.  Not to mention that I had a lot of wasted space underneath the ms wings.  I plan on building one more to replace the cabinet that my kapex sits on now.  I've got enough left over slides,shelves and ply to do so and I'll just use the casters off the old cabinet.
I took some ideas from Roger's sysports and Brice's idea to put an mft top on the top of the cab.  The drawer slides are attached to stock that has a tongue on each end.  Those pieces slide in a groove that is in the back of the carcass and the ff.  I cut thin pieces of stock that fit in the grooves to work as spacers.  This was all Roger's idea and I thought it was a great one.  It makes the movement and placement of the shelves (when/if) I ever need to do so extremely easy.  The backs are flat so that if I want to I can put these back to back and have a work surface that is approx. 30"X 40".
I made 15 of the shelves but only used 9.  They have dowels in all four corners to locate and lock the systainers in place.
I think the cost was fairly reasonable, considering I'll essentially get 3 sysports out of all of this.
2 sheets of 3/4" ply - $80
8 casters - $96
15 slides - $55
Paint - $35

 

[rnt80]

A couple more pics.

 

[Frank Pellow]

I would like to congratulate you both for a good design and for a good inmplementation of that design.  [thumbs up] (speaking as someone who hads bulid several similar items)

 

[Brice Burrell]

...I cut thin pieces of stock that fit in the grooves to work as spacers.  This was all Roger's idea and I thought it was a great one.  It makes the movement and placement of the shelves (when/if) I ever need to do so extremely easy..... 

I don't remember seeing thread Roger's mentioned this, you have a link. Nice work BTW.  [thumbs up]

 

[sw1211]

Nice work Russell.  Would you mind explaining how the groove makes moving/placing the slides/spacers easier as opposed to just moving the slide and spacer to where ever you want it.  Maybe I'm just a little slow but I'm not seeing how that groove facilitates the placement of the slides.  Just trying to understand before I get around to building my sysports.  Thanks in advance for the info. 

 

[HowardH]

It appears from the pics that he uses the spacers for the tongue to rest on.  To change the height of the drawer placement, he would change the length of the spacers.  He would need pairs to accomplish this. Pretty ingenious. 

 

[sw1211]

It appears from the pics that he uses the spacers for the tongue to rest on.  To change the height of the drawer placement, he would change the length of the spacers.  He would need pairs to accomplish this. Pretty ingenious.  

Now I see, thanks, that is a nice set-up.  I didn't notice the spacers in the groove, I was just referring to the spacers behind the drawer slides.

 

[score0matic]

RT  they look great. 

When it warms up i plan on adding a couple of pullouts in the trailer

Craig

 

[Inner10]

That is fantastic!

I still need to make some shelves in the cube van and basement...at the moment I'm just stacking them up. [crying]

 

[Brice Burrell]

It appears from the pics that he uses the spacers for the tongue to rest on.  To change the height of the drawer placement, he would change the length of the spacers.  He would need pairs to accomplish this. Pretty ingenious. 

Ohh, I see. What a simple idea, brilliant.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

That is fantastic!

I still need to make some shelves in the cube van and basement...at the moment I'm just stacking them up. [crying]

It's all right, I am a stacker as well.  The roll board helps out some though.

To the OP, I really like those, maybe my favorites.

I really want a couple of the syports but I can't seem to justify 1200 bucks+ for them.
Can we have a sale on these?

Maybe a BOGO? [big grin]

 

[nclemmons]

Very nice - taking the best ideas from several versions to fabricate these.

Did you do a top below the drilled MDF, or is that the only top?

Thanks for sharing -

neil

 

[rnt80]

Very nice - taking the best ideas from several versions to fabricate these.

Did you do a top below the drilled MDF, or is that the only top?

Thanks for sharing -

neil

Thanks.  There isn't a top below the mdf top.  I didn't see a need for it and it just would have been in the way since I have to slide the pieces the slides are mounted to from the top of the cab.

 

[rnt80]

That is fantastic!

I still need to make some shelves in the cube van and basement...at the moment I'm just stacking them up. [crying]

It's all right, I am a stacker as well.  The roll board helps out some though.

To the OP, I really like those, maybe my favorites.

I really want a couple of the syports but I can't seem to justify 1200 bucks+ for them.Can we have a sale on these?

Maybe a BOGO? [big grin]

Check out my cost for building these.  I'm going to end up with three of these for a little under $400.

 

[rnt80]

...I cut thin pieces of stock that fit in the grooves to work as spacers.  This was all Roger's idea and I thought it was a great one.  It makes the movement and placement of the shelves (when/if) I ever need to do so extremely easy..... 

I don't remember seeing thread Roger's mentioned this, you have a link. Nice work BTW.  [thumbs up]

Here's the link.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

That is fantastic!

I still need to make some shelves in the cube van and basement...at the moment I'm just stacking them up. [crying]

It's all right, I am a stacker as well.  The roll board helps out some though.

To the OP, I really like those, maybe my favorites.

I really want a couple of the syports but I can't seem to justify 1200 bucks+ for them.Can we have a sale on these?

Maybe a BOGO? [big grin]

Check out my cost for building these.  I'm going to end up with three of these for a little under $400.

I saw what your cost was.

It's the time for me.  I really won't take the time to do something like that.
Trust me, I would never get it done.  I am way better off just buying something.

I do like them.

 

[rnt80]

That is fantastic!

I still need to make some shelves in the cube van and basement...at the moment I'm just stacking them up. [crying]

It's all right, I am a stacker as well.  The roll board helps out some though.

To the OP, I really like those, maybe my favorites.

I really want a couple of the syports but I can't seem to justify 1200 bucks+ for them.Can we have a sale on these?

Maybe a BOGO? [big grin]

Check out my cost for building these.  I'm going to end up with three of these for a little under $400.

I saw what your cost was.

It's the time for me.  I really won't take the time to do something like that.
Trust me, I would never get it done.  I am way better off just buying something.

I do like them.

I can understand that.  I don't do this for a living exclusively.  I'm a teacher that does this stuff on the side.  With that said, I've had enough work the past year or so to keep me really busy though, enough to make this a second full time job.
Building these was almost a work of necessity for me.  Scattered systainers were slowing me down and cluttering everything up.  It probably took me a month to get these completed.  I would take a break from the job I was working on for an hour or so to work on these.  The result has paid dividends already.  I'm currently working on a built-in for a customer and it was so easy yesterday to access everything without having to move three things around to get to what I wanted.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

How heavy is each one?

I would like to be able to wheel them in and out of my trailer and back into the garage.

 

[mhoy]

Russell: These look really nice.  [cool]  Could you show off via a picture or two the details on how you space out the shelving. My brain seems rather slow today, perhaps it's time for another morning coffee.  [laughing]

This would be a perfect first nifty project for my collection of festools.

Mark

 

[Holzhacker]

I would also love to make those but it is unrealistic for me. I have way too much work to do, that needs to get done. It would take me way too long to get those done. Besides if I started building Sysports for myself before I made book cases for my wife, things wouldn't go so well.