How do you guys store your TS 55 blades?

[MadViking]

Festool seems to make storage devices for pretty much everything except for the TS 55 blades (and the CS 70 blades). Unless I've somehow missed a special systainer or other container specifically for this. There is of course the SGA storage case, which is meant to be attached to either the CS 50 (which I don't have) or TS55 with CMS insert (I have the CMS, but not for TS 55). It's got a carrying handle, so I'm assuming it could be used pretty well as a stand-alone for the blades. Anybody use it?

http://www.festool.co.uk/products/accessories/pages/detail.aspx?pid=492228&name=accessories-sga

Currently I just keep my sparce blades in the cardboard box they came in, but I always seem to forget them since they aren't in a systainer  :

They fit inside the big tray on the Sortainer (SORT 4), but I have a lot of junk in there already. How do you guys store your TS 55 blades?

 

[mastercabman]

I store them at the bottom of the TS 55 systainer(under the saw).I think there's enought room for 3 blades.

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Yes, there is storage under the saw, in the systainer, but I prefer not to use it because your blades will just bounce around contacting each other with the potential of damaging the teeth.  I got a couple of blade storage bags from Sears many years ago and they've done well in protecting my saw blades.  I keep my small circular saw blades in one and table saw blades in the other.

 

[peter halle]

I can fit three blades in their sleeves in that systainer.  Two towards the front and one to the back.

Peter

 

[Tim Morris]

What Peter said.

 

[Jonhilgen]

Like this.  Just don't leave the systainer sitting in the hot summer sun, or the blade protectant will melt.  Not that that's happened to me... [embarassed]

Jon

 

[Alan m]

the systainer will hold a few blades but they knock against each other. you could put a thick plastic sheet between them if you wanted.
festool sells a bag for storing the blades. dont know how many but i would guess 5-7. it has a fabric layer around the blades

 

[AlexThePalex]

festool sells a bag for storing the blades. dont know how many but i would guess 5-7. it has a fabric layer around the blades

http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/details.php?cat=Clearance%20Festool%20Accessories&product=126431

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Nice bag, but I don't think it's ever been in North America.

 

[Julian Tracy]

I keep a sys2 just for rail saw accessories - holds a couple of quick clamps, screw clamps, hose deflector, 3-4 blades and extra anti-splinter inserts.  Nice having ti all in one spot.

I keep one extra 48 tooth blade in the bottom of the TS55 case - no worries of damage with just one.

Julian

 

[speed]

i keep 3 in the bottom of the systainer and keep one in the saw, i have some small clear tube that ive slit to slide over the teeth to stop them toutching does the job perfect.

 

[Alan m]

i keep 3 in the bottom of the systainer and keep one in the saw, i have some small clear tube that ive slit to slide over the teeth to stop them toutching does the job perfect.

iv done this with my multimaster blades. it works well to stop them banging into each other. i have a foldable buldog clip holding it on

 

[Frank-Jan]

Festool seems to make storage devices for pretty much everything except for the TS 55 blades (and the CS 70 blades)....

I keep two blades in the bottom of the systainer, the others in their cardboard sleeve (on a pile "to sharpener" or; when sharpened, on a shelve in my van)

For the CS70 I have a systainer4 with blades in their cardboard sleeve at the bottom,  in which I also transport the hose with the Y-splitter, a bag of splinterguards, the shroud and the push-stick (and also the spare rubberthingies for the systainercarts).

 

[MadViking]

Nice suggestions guys. I've tried storing my blades in the TS 55 systainer (both in the cardboard cases and without them) but it doesn't realy work for me. I have lots of other stuff in there and it gets cluttered, and I don't like having the blades in the bottom where they keep sliding around and banging against each other. Seems like I might just try that hose thingy or just get yet another systainer to store the blades and all the other junk (less clutter as a side effect). I just wish there was some elegant solution to all this, such as having a special insert on the underside of the systainer lid (like an inverted lid compartement), so when you open the systainer the blades are right in front of you.

http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/details.php?cat=Clearance%20Festool%20Accessories&product=126431

I didn't know Festool made women's purses  ;D

First time I ever see that bag. Isn't listed on any official Festool site, so I'm guessing it's not being made anymore. Anybody know if it has seperate sleeves/compartements inside (one for each bag), or is it just one big compartement where the blades bang against each other?

 

[AlexThePalex]

For the CS70 I have a systainer4 with blades in their cardboard sleeve at the bottom,  in which I also transport the hose with the Y-splitter, a bag of splinterguards, the shroud and the push-stick (and also the spare rubberthingies for the systainercarts).

I use a sys 5 for that, I can put all accessories in it, including the hose, all saw blades, push stick, blade guard and even the miter fence. Everything in one kit (except the table extensions of course). I hate the push stick though, do you like to use it Frank-Jan? The plastic is so damn slippery and thin, I'm not trusting my precious fingers to that thing.

 

[ccarrolladams]

With apologies to long-time FOGgers, back in January 2006 when I purchased my first TS55, I also bought the accessory kit and several extra blades. I did not have a shop, just a spare room in my condo. I selected Festools because I could carry a top-quality shop with me.

Years of experience had taught me that I needed 3 of the blade I used most, so that even when one was waiting to be sharpened, I had one for the saw and still a spare. Since I bought the TS55 to cut cabinet-grade plywood I bought 2 extra 48Th Fine Tooth saw blades, now cat 495 377. In their factory packages they did not fit well in the "blade well" of the Systainer.

I also bought a rip blade, a universal blade, a solid surface/laminate blade and an aluminum/plastic blade. Immediately I knew I would need to move all those blades from place to place without damaging any of them. Although empty Systainers are hardly free, compared to the cost of all those blades, one dedicated to blades seemed like a wise investment. At first what I did was use the same stiff foam I have used for theatrical ATA shipping cases, shaped with a hot-wire cutter. I just left a square hole an easy fit for the blades in packages.

While still without a shop eventually I bought a second TS55 and a TS75. At that point I bought another empty Systainer 4. In that I built an insert with vertical compartments to hold packaged blades of both sizes. Although I now have a shop and seldom take a TS to sites, I keep the blade Systainer ready to go. All of us in the shop know we can find at least one sharp blade of every style within that Systainer.

Of course in the tool crib of my shop I keep a more extensive inventory of saw blades. There we have the shelves for blades needing sharpening. With so many saws I own a whole lot of blades. At the time every blade is purchased it is engraved with my company name and a serial number. All details about every blade is tracked by its serial number. With a few clicks on the computer I know when it was bought, when it was most recently sharpened and when it was returned to use and on which saw. When any of us finish using a particular saw blade, we judge the sharpness. That opinion is written on a Post-It. Any of us feeling a blade needs to be sharpened is authorized to put it on the To Be Sharpened shelf.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Bottom of the systainer.  Put a chunk of cardboard between them.

 

[Frank-Jan]

@ MadViking: I got one of those "purses" for my kapex blades, it has several compartments, a bit like those folding cd/dvd wallets.

@Alex: I must try putting the c70 stuff in a sys5 (I don`t have one yet but I have a sys4 with extension to try it out).
I use the pushstick regularly, but mostly on short pieces, for longer filler-strips etc I often stop the saw about halfway, and start again from the other side. Before I got a cs70 I had an elektra beckum kgt500 which had the same model pushstick (but made out of wood)

 

[Electric Trim]

I store them at the bottom of the TS 55 systainer(under the saw).I think there's enought room for 3 blades.

That's what I do

 

[MadViking]

At that point I bought another empty Systainer. In that I built an insert with vertical compartments to hold packaged blades of both sizes.

Seems like a very good idea. I've been thinking about making my own insert for storing the 150 papers in an empty systainer, think it was Brice Burrell that did this first. I don't think I would fill a whole systainer with TS 55 blades, but could have compartments for other stuff like clamps or maybe could fit a Gecko in there.