Home made sysport...grey or green?

[Woodmatt]

I would say grey.

Like Kev I want to know is that a workshop,surely not.No mess no sawdust.

 

[JoggleStick]

This is all grey, walls, ceiling, windows think it works well !

: speechless Huh? Gone fishin??? Zero, absolutely zero dust? huh?

What was the question again?

 

[GPowers]

I like the gray.

I built my SysPort two years ago, painted the boxed Gray. The pulls are still un-painted wood. Could not decide on Green vs Gray. Maybe I should paint them the Festool dark blue? Or the gray also look nice. some day.

 

[Paul G]

Great insights by all....

Nice try by Paul too....

I still think  they "should" be green but am liking and leaning grey.....simpler and cleaner look.   

I'd settle for plans

As to your color question, I really like the green, it completely fits the entire color code logic of the system.

 

[festooldude]

This is all grey, walls, ceiling, windows think it works well !

Wow !! Is that actually a workshop or a sacred and holy shrine for worshipping Festool ??  [eek]

Thats not a workshop.. That's a Festool showroom!!

 

[Peter Fish]

No not a shrine but I do worship the Festool dust extractors, they certainly do a good job  !!

 

[JoggleStick]

Hi Fishy,

You've got everyone's attention with that photo... Would you mind sharing with us a little more detail on exactly 'what' we are all picking our jaws up off the floor, over?

 

[land_kel]

I'm building one myself,  a double and it will be Festool grey.

 

[hemlock]

Great.  Grey is where I am heading too.    Thx for all the input. 

I think the subject should change to the "shrine room".    I thought I had an addiction!    Wow! 

 

[Kev]

Great.   Grey is where I am heading too.    Thx for all the input. 

I think the subject should change to the "shrine room".    I thought I had an addiction!    Wow! 

check out the bottom of this thread then http://www.talkfestool.com/vb/shops-storage/1658-2009-festool-centric-workshops.html

 

[peter halle]

Great.   Grey is where I am heading too.    Thx for all the input. 

I think the subject should change to the "shrine room".    I thought I had an addiction!    Wow! 

check out the bottom of this thread then http://www.talkfestool.com/vb/shops-storage/1658-2009-festool-centric-workshops.html

For those who might not know, those images in the linked thread are of the Training Room at the Festool USA's North American Headquarters in Lebanon, Indiana.  Really cool place! [thumbs up]

Peter

 

[Peter Fish]

As requested more grey more dust The standards are dropping !!

 

[Kev]

Hi Fishy,

You've go a lot of Festool in what seems a fairly compact space. Masterful organisation !  [wink]

Can you tell us the approximate dimensions ... I'm guessing it's about 8.5m x 3.5m ??

I need to take a leaf out of your book.

Kev

 

[Peter Fish]

Hi Kev
Nearly right its 7m x 3.5 and at the other end is the hand tool bench/shop area
That really gets dusty !!

 

[mattfc]

Very nice Peter, I missed this post, was going to ask how its looking

 

[wow]

I prefer the grey. The green is overdoing it a bit.

By the way, the whole idea of "how should it be done" is not important. What is important is how you like it yourself.

Also by the way, Festool doesn't make something green when it moves. The pad on the Rotex moves quite a bit, but it's not green. Only the button that releases the pad is green.

Exactly ... that's why it should only be green if you are using push to release drawer sliders !

Festool systainer handles aren't green only the releases/catches.

That's why I vote BOTH - kind of. I think they should be gray, but with a green area to push on to release the drawer slides.

If they aren't PTR slides, then gray.

 

[dltflt]

I've been working on plans to build one and I was thinking the dark blue would be a good color

 

[Peter Fish]

Hey Matt,  you know you are to blame  !!  
Since those pics I have changed things around a bit and replaced the older model MFTs & CMS for the current models and the CS 50 with the CS 70  
How is your new shop working out ?  Any progress pics ? Hope you are well

Peter

 

[GarryMartin]

Since those pics I have changed things around a bit and replaced the older model MFTs & CMS for the current models and the CS 50 with the CS 70  

Hi Peter; time for some new photos then?  [big grin]  [poke]

 

[mattfc]

Hi Peter,

Workshop coming on well albeit slow. Have put in new structural beams to replace roof truss ties, chopped out old truss work and laid a Junkers 22mm beech floor upstairs (worked out at £7 per sq m as reclaimed on eBay), and just finished laying same solid beech on ground floor. Starting on replacing fibreglass up and over garage door with wood insulated bifolds, and starting on insulating whole space with 75mm kingspan/celotex (to be finished with 12mm ply on walls so I can fix lots to it)

I have also built a lift platform using two scaffold hoist wired to work together, which lift a flatbed trolley (about 1.2m x0.7), 1000kg capacity, so can when'll stuff into workshop, hoist it to upper deck and unload. Works a treat and stops me trashing my back pushing stuff up ladders.

Otherwise no  new tool purchases really, other than my Hammer K3 table saw and A31 planet/thicknessser with spiral cutter head, oh and on eBay a huge metabo extractor going cheap as they stuffed up the listing. http://www.metabo.co.uk/Product-catalogue-halfstationary-and-stationary-tools.23957+M5c8be4ee0cf.0.html