Fogtainers For Sale! Anyone interested? This Ends August 15, 2010

[dsweetser]

Rather see the othe dog & owner!

 

[peter halle]

Don't worry - all wrapped up for tonight!

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[butzla]

Peter,  I'd be very interested in a #1 or #2 for my new Bosch jiggy.

 

[RONWEN]

Very cool pics Peter -- Don't you wish that you could keep all of them (filled of course)  [smile]

 

[jonny round boy]

Don't worry - all wrapped up for tonight!

What, you're leaving them outside? [eek]

Move your furniture outside for the night, and put the FOGtainers inside. Don't want them to get cold. [tongue]

 

[Wood_Junkie]

Mannn.. those are makin' me hungry.

In the immortal accent of Fat Bastard*:  "Get enn mahh workshawwp!"

*Austin Powers movies

 

[harry_mc]

Peter,  I'd be very interested in a #1 or #2 for my new Bosch jiggy.

It's one thing to put the Bosch in a regular systainer....but a FOGtainer?  [jawdrop]

 

[dltflt]

Great pictures Peter, can't wait to mine.

 

[peter halle]

Stupid piece of trivia and a couple of observations.

Trivia:  "L" my assistant and I unlatched and latched 804 latches - the systainers are not locked together during transport.  No broken skins on knuckles  [big grin]

Observation 1.  Both "L" and I agree that our opinion is that the dark blue latches required less effort to operate versus the Festool green.  No logical reason for this, we each came to that opinion separately.

Observation 2.  These things look sharp!  Whereas Festool's colors are navy blue and green, they should change their standard systainers to the blue and green - my opinion.

 

[Frank Pellow]

Stupid piece of trivia and a couple of observations.

Trivia:  "L" my assistant and I unlatched and latched 804 latches - the systainers are not locked together during transport.  No broken skins on knuckles  [big grin]

Observation 1.  Both "L" and I agree that our opinion is that the dark blue latches required less effort to operate versus the Festool green.  No logical reason for this, we each came to that opinion separately.

Observation 2.  These things look sharp!  Whereas Festool's colors are navy blue and green, they should change their standard systainers to the blue and green - my opinion.

Peter, I was wondering about who installed the green latches.  That isn't a task that I would want to undertake.  The resulting pile of systainers looks very good to me.

 

[peter halle]

Frank,

Tanos actually installed the latches in Germany.  We just latched and unlatched to turn them into towers to transport them to their current position.  79 of them have 4 green latches.  We will have to remove those and swap them out onto the 79 all blue latched ones here at the printers and vice versa once that situation comes to a finality.  At least those can be done in phases versus all at once like this go round.

Peter

 

[jmbfestool]

[popcorn]

 

[GPowers]

Frank,

Tanos actually installed the latches in Germany.  We just latched and unlatched to turn them into towers to transport them to their current position.  79 of them have 4 green latches.  We will have to remove those and swap them out onto the 79 all blue latched ones here at the printers and vice versa once that situation comes to a finality.  At least those can be done in phases versus all at once like this go round.

Peter

Why go through all the work. Just put the two Festool green latched in the Fogtainer and ship it. We can install the Festool green latches.

 

[harry_]

Frank,

Tanos actually installed the latches in Germany.  We just latched and unlatched to turn them into towers to transport them to their current position.  79 of them have 4 green latches.  We will have to remove those and swap them out onto the 79 all blue latched ones here at the printers and vice versa once that situation comes to a finality.  At least those can be done in phases versus all at once like this go round.

Peter

Why go through all the work. Just put the two Festool green latched in the Fogtainer and ship it. We can install the Festool green latches.

You assume we all know how to do that [poke]

 

[Paul Franklin]

Peter

Hope you had a great Thanks Giving and the Systainer table worked out  ;D

Did the printing get resolved?

Paul

 

[peter halle]

Paul,

I apologize.  I missed this post.  [eek]

The printer and I have been working towards a solution to the issue for the botched batch.  We have come up with something - my idea - that I think is better than what was originally proposed and advertised.  I have 3 of the 4 sizes here and honestly I think that this solution should be rolled out to the rest.

I can't post images here yet, but I am sending one to someone here on the FOG who will review the product for me / us.  That person is well qualified.

I will update more when I can.  Rest assured, I want nothing more than to see the happy faces and images and posts here once the members receive them.

Peter

 

[Paul Franklin]

Any news?  [drooling]

 

[peter halle]

Paul and everyone else,

Thank you for your patience.

Over the last week I have been in communication with many of the people who have been involved in this project.  We have traded emails and looked at images that I have sent.  I received the most important comments just today.  That is why I delayed posting.  Earlier today I sent off to the one member who could compare Fogtainers his ordered version with the modifications that you will see below.  That member has already seen images of what will be arriving.  I have asked him to post his thoughts about the two versions here - without any input from me.

The skinny is that thru this process and the botched printing of the first 79, I think that there is a better way.  Better in that I think the quality s better, sharper, and more durable. Don't take this as a sales pitch.  I am awaiting pricing for this potential change.

Please note that the border you see in this images has been eliminated due to comments I have received, although I liked it myself.

This post will be modified to show images.  Right now the Forum software hates me and is timing out, thus not allowing me to post 7 images.

See - it happens to me too.  I am not special.

Peter

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Note:  If you see an image at the bottom of this post - that is a photoshopped image removing the border.  It gives an idea of the quality and the color matching.

Peter

I welcome questions and comments  [big grin]

 

[dltflt]

I like it without the border also.

 

[Holzhacker]

I like it better without the border, looks more Pro. The border looks like a China knockoff trying to look cool. However, having bashed it, I'm Ok with my Fogtainers showing up without or with borders, it's fine. I won't be _itchin' [smile]
Maybe I missed something or am unclear on the solution ... the original idea was to print on the Sys, right? Now to fix the printers screw up we have gone to stick on labels?. Am I getting this right? I'm Ok either way, as long as we use better stick on glue than Festool uses for their labels.