Home made Sysports

[Brice Burrell]

Hi Mikael, welcome. I see a lot of people like storage solutions like this, but personally, I would never store my power tools under the dirtiest place in the shop.

Alex, I tend to keep Systainers under my MFT during my projects. As long as I remember to always keep them closed I've not found this to be a problem. Sure they do get some saw dust on them but that's not a big deal. 

 

[counterfix]

here is my version of sysports made out of diamond plate with full ext guides.

http://festoolownersgroup.com/CoppermineMain/displayimage.php?pid=3005&fullsize=1

 

[tbellemare]

Those look pretty cool.

High security? Can you chain them down?

Tom

 

[AlexThePalex]

High security? Can you chain them down?

Man, I bet those come with auto expanding anti-burglar turrets.  [big grin]

 

[counterfix]

well as for security they are locking hasps [eek] and i do strap them down in the trailer but as you know there never left  alone
Lance [jawdrop]

 

[mikael1982]

Hi Mikael, welcome. I see a lot of people like storage solutions like this, but personally, I would never store my power tools under the dirtiest place in the shop.

Well as long they are in their systainers, it must be limited how much dirt there will be in the powertools.. I alway use CTL's on my tools so not much dust i the air...

 

[mikael1982]

Hey there... First things first, sorry the bad english, i'm from Denmark Well I was wondering if you have any messurements on this MFT/Sysport clone?? It look cool but i can't figure out, if it give the same pleasure as if the sysport was taller and up against a wall....
I'm 2.0 meters tall so I don't want to bend down too much for my tools. But at the same time my shop i rather small so it might be practical to save space, with table and sysport in one..

Hello mikael, welcome to the FOG. The image in the post was taken from a model I made in the Google SketchUp program. SketchUp is a free program so you may already be familiar with it. I can email you a copy of the SketchUp file if you like. 

Hey there.. I would really like to have the drawing for sketch up...  Then i can use or modify it so it fits my needs.. :-D

 

[butzla]

well as for security they are locking hasps [eek] and i do strap them down in the trailer but as you know there never left  alone
Lance [jawdrop]

Those look awesome!  Can we see some pics with the doors open?

 

[counterfix]

i  can say when i started this project i was shocked at the cost of sysports [huh] so like all of us i will make my own it couldn't cost that much [big grin] what was i thinkin [scratch chin]the  material  alone was in the neighborhood of 500.00. this started with water jet cut festool lettering down the sides of the diamond plate that proved to be to costly so  i stuck to the basics and here they are.[attachurl=#]http://festoolownersgroup.com/CoppermineMain/displayimage.php?pid=3002&fullsize=1
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there are some more views in counterfix gallery thanks for everyones input.
Lance [thanks]

 

[Rick Christopherson]

When pasting the images into a posting from your album, you have to right-click on the picture and copy the URL of the image itself instead of viewing the image full screen and copying the URL out of the command line. Maybe Shane can add a function into the album pages to avoid this.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Wow! The ultimate Sysports!

 

[Kevin D.]

The "Terminator" of Sysports.

Great thread to all btw.  It's helping me decide what I want to do.

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

Welcome to the forum, Kevin.  We hope you share yours once it's done.

 

[tburritt]

[tongue] Those would look great in my shop! Wish I was able to order a few from you.

 

[jmbfestool]

Here are some pictures of the home made sysports I made. These pictures were on the Yahoo group, so I thought I would post them here.

Regards

Paul

I noticed you have mini systainers I also have 4 but I noticed you have some tanos mini systainers they look bit bigger is that the only difference?

 

[Brice Burrell]

I noticed you have mini systainers I also have 4 but I noticed you have some tanos mini systainers they look bit bigger is that the only difference?

Tanos makes two sizes of mini Systainers. Here's a link to the Systainer Mini I and the Systainer Mini II at MySystainer.com

 

[Texastutt]

Rick those things are on Steroids, I'm reporting you!  [cool]

 

[peter halle]

Rick those things are on Steroids, I'm reporting you!  [cool]

Rick won't care if you report him.  Those are Lance's home made sysports.  Rick was trying to show how to get pictures out of galleries.  They are extreme though..

Peter

 

[Wood_Junkie]

Finally remembered to take the camera to my shop with a slow night tonight.

Here's my built-in Sysport-type setup.  I had this dead space underneath a section of my worktable.  This space previously just housed my air compressor and some junk, it is now much better utilized.  I put 3/4" ply as the left wall, and 1/2" ply in the middle.  The space was just *perfect* to have a standard toekick space (I can actually store Sys 1's under there, in a hidden space).

With pretty much precisly 1/8" clearance between the shelves and the levels of Systainers it worked out great.
The only downside is that since I used a bunch of 22" slides from a prior project, and I only had 23.75" of space to keep them on the same plane the cabinet face frames, I don't have enough space to open them without removing them... Kind of a bummer.  However, in total, I an currently fit 16 Systainers in there with my current herd of Festools.  The bottom row can hold a Sys4, or any pairings up to that size.  The middle level can hold a Sys1+Sys2, or a Sys 3.  The top level can obviously only hold Sys1s.  If owned all Sys1s I could probably fit about 20-22.

I totally stole the dowel-as-positioners from another member.   [big grin]

Front on shot:
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Bottom drawers open:  Two rows deep; Double stacks in the back.  Router accessories on the left behind the OF1400 and TS accessories on the right.
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Several levels open:  
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Top row open:
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Annnd...my first ghetto Systainer / Systainer cart.  The base is on 1" stainless steel casters.  You can see the low profile was important for that spot. Total lucked out on the width of the space, as I installed those cabinets 3.5 years ago... not knowing Festool was in my future.
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and my homecard cart compared to the Tanos cart I recently purchased:
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and... here's the final members of the family (don't want them to feel leftout!)
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Some keen eyes, or those who read to the end here, may notice I've rearranged some of the Sys sizes and contents. 
My Domino assortment is in a Sys 1, and I made my own divider insert.  The router bits are in a Sys2.  The compact cleaning kit is housed in a Drawer Systainer Size IV, (with two medium drawers).  The PS2E is in a Sys 2, so I can fit accessories.  And my TS55 case has a Tanos handle since I often attach it to the top of my CT stack and move it all as one. 
As soon as the Fogtainers come out some more rearranging will happen... primarily consummable accessories into Fogtainers and they'll move with their associated tool, and the LS130 into a Sys2 (so I can fit accessories).

 

[Wood_Junkie]

Resurrecting an old thread, but this seemed to be “THE” custom sysport thread…
I finally got the majority of my workshop moved and setup, and built two Festool “Condos”, as I jokingly call them to my not-so-amused wife.

Despite having storage for 18 items in this condo duplex, it turns out I need one more…   Oye, serious impulse control issues me thinks…

Couple of asides…
The cabinet has bi-fold, fold back doors.  I don’t like having things “sticking out” in my workshop.  So when these are open for business, the doors will be out of the way.  

The ex-military security-freak in me was affected by GPowers’s thread about his shop being robbed…
And therefore necessitated:
>> a new alarm system on the shop.  (another wife favorite! Ha!)
>> The doors close up, latch together and get padlocked shut with two separate hardened locks.  No exposed hinge screws.   ;-)  Domino’d together, no exposed screws at all.
>> And finally, the wheels are only for show and if we someday move (as in a new home!).  Each cabinet is quadruple bolted to the wall.  ;-)

I figure any lookie-loo scumbags wanting some spendy tools will need about 15 minutes with a crowbar, with the alarm going off… which is plenty of time to get my other ‘special metric’ (hint:  9mm) tools from a more at-hand location.

Anyways, on to the pics!

Here’s a full-frontal shot of the duplex.  Yay.  
3/4" MDO for the tops and bottoms.  Used leftover 20mm ply for the sides and center.  20mm ply on the back (overkill for a back, but needed for bolting to the wall).
1/2" MDO for the shelves.  Full extension 18” slides for everything (CSH hardware for $3.92 each!!!  Thx FOG!).  18” slides were used because the width of the whole thing required the bi-fold doors to be 36” in total width, and therefore 18” cabinet depth.  This leaves a few inches behind each Systainer for miscellaneous things.  Casters are cheapo from HF.  The conduit made for a specific height I had to keep below.  So each cabinet is 40” tall.

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One door shown in the closed/covered position.  The opposite side meets at the middle and they get double latched using gate-hasp hardware.  (pics are a few weeks old).  Only takes a few seconds to open and close.

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Here are the remaining “homeless”… one more condo to build now.

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Here’s an in-progress shot.  I made a series of hardboard spacers to create the proper offset for Sys1, Sys2, Sys3, and Sys4 sizes.  Made it very easy to mix & match where I wanted things.

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Here’s a happy new resident!  Note the dowels for the corner stops.  Totally (and again) borrowed from a brilliant FOG member.  

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And hopefully a new useful idea:  I used 6mm Dominos as ultra-low-profile drawer pulls.  If you space reference marks 12mm apart (6mm each way from centerline), and use the widest Domino setting it’s just the right length for the 38mm (actual) Dominos.  They’re such a snug fit I didn’t even bother using glue.

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