How Do You Store Your Festool Manuals?

Droc7683

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Doing a little shop cleaning this past weekend and cleaning out some Systainers. I currently have all my manuals tossed into a old Sys-4.

Any better suggestions?

Should I continue to keep them or just recycle them seeing all the manuals are online.
 
I'd go for keeping them with a view that if you sell the tool down the line, you can state manuals included  [thumbs up]
 
i'm an information junkie so I have a whole slew of 3 ring binders, which i usually get on closeout at the office supply stores.  not only festool, but i keep all my manuals in there along with printed supplemental manuals and any articles pertaining to that tool that i find useful.  i usually underline and highlight parts or write notes and ideas in the margins because i like that old-school pen and paper thing.  if the binder gets too full, i'll usually cull some things out and toss. 

the problem i found with the online access is that often i can't quite find what i found before especially when i need it most--even bookmarking stuff is hard to go through if it gets too much.  take the talkfestool discussion recently--troves of useful info can be gone from online for whatever reason.  i kept a high capacity laser printer from my old business and if it's something i know for sure i'll be using, i print it out when i first run across it.  the rest of the interesting stuff i bookmark and hope for the best.
 
It ain't pretty...

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They just sit there. I have an iPad that I keep on my shop that has quick access to them all on PDF... Plus The supplemental manuals written by Rick.
 
I lift up the systainer insert and throw it in the bottom of the sys...that way if I'm on site and have to consult the manual for some reason I have it.  If it and the tool stay in the box I'll always have the manual with the tool.
 
The manuals are on my iPad and Mac.  The supplemental manuals are printed in color, two sided, laminated and bound using Circa disks which allow me to remove a pertinent page and then easily reinsert.  I had tried comb binding but liked the idea of removing a page and being able to easily put it back.

peter
 
roblg3 said:
I lift up the systainer insert and throw it in the bottom of the sys...that way if I'm on site and have to consult the manual for some reason I have it.  If it and the tool stay in the box I'll always have the manual with the tool.

Ditto that.
I also throw the receipt under the insert so I don't have to go looking for it if I have a problem.
 
I found a green looseleaf binder which matched the Festool green well and I keep them all in there for now. However, I've dropped it once and a bunch of pages just ripped off the binder rings, so I think I'll find a better way. Keeping them on the computer is probably the best although, for me, it's not convenient since I don't have a computer in my workshop.
 
It's one of the few good uses I've found for the Mini-Sys.

Well, other than as a Mini-First Aid Systainer, of course!

[big grin]
 
Mine are rather unceremoniously stacked in a box in the corner of the workshop. Can't recall the last time I had to refer back to one (that wasn't an online supplemental manual anyway). I really should just throw them out actually...
 
Cheese said:
roblg3 said:
I lift up the systainer insert and throw it in the bottom of the sys...that way if I'm on site and have to consult the manual for some reason I have it.  If it and the tool stay in the box I'll always have the manual with the tool.

Ditto that.
I also throw the receipt under the insert so I don't have to go looking for it if I have a problem.

Yes, another who slides them under the insert. Always with the tool! They don't add a lot of weight and you can always find them, and never have to sort through a growing stack of festool manuals to find the one you are looking for.
 
I have mine in a binder...though my new Domino 700 has a nice spot for the manual.

One thing I do is that the moment I get a new tool out of the box, I take out my iPhone and snap a picture of the tool and the systainer...then a pic of the serial number...otherwise I forget to do it.
 
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