lets design the rest of the systainer system

[semenza]

I'm not sure how else to describe it.  If you look at the stack in the picture........ if the bottom sortainer  in that stack was not a pure sortainer, but instead a single unit with drawers in the lower protion and a built in systainer in the upper portion. How would you open the built in Systainer portion of that bottom unit without unstacking?

A Sys - III, IV, V integrated units would be  good additions to the system, I would certainly use some. But not having  pure Sortainers also would reduce the flexibility of the system.  Think about all the size combinations that Tanos would need to produce to make the most of integrated units if pure sortainers were not available.  

A lot of this  depends on how an individual uses the Tanos system.  The fact that it is modular is one of the best parts. Users can make whatever size and drawer  size combos they want to meet their needs.

Though integrated units may indeed show up, I'd bet Tanos is working on a sortainer that will mate mor easily with T-Locs.

Gets we have to wait and see what  comes next  [smile]

Seth

 

[Alan m]

i think there is a place for both types.

 

[RC]

Oh, and of course in the name of keeping up a system here I would like to see that the integrated sys+attic+sort drawer package would come in standard SYS1 multiples in height but in such a way that the tool compartment would actually have identical volume to a non-attic systainer of it's size i.e. if a tool comes normally in a sys1 then the attic lid version would now be a sys2 size with slightly more space in the tool area height wise to cover for the space the attic lid eats away from the tool compartment. This would translate to a minimum size of an integrated sys+attic+sort would probably fall in the sys3 sizeish I guess to have any space for the drawers heigh-wise...

Don't have a sortainer so can't take a tape measure and figure would a sortainer drawer with in a sys2-size box with a sys1 tool compartment and an attic lid or would the drawer's height just wither to nothing in that form factor.

 

[mastercabman]

I would like for them to be lighter

 

[semenza]

Oh, and of course in the name of keeping up a system here I would like to see that the integrated sys+attic+sort drawer package would come in standard SYS1 multiples in height but in such a way that the tool compartment would actually have identical volume to a non-attic systainer of it's size i.e. if a tool comes normally in a sys1 then the attic lid version would now be a sys2 size with slightly more space in the tool area height wise to cover for the space the attic lid eats away from the tool compartment. This would translate to a minimum size of an integrated sys+attic+sort would probably fall in the sys3 sizeish I guess to have any space for the drawers heigh-wise...

Don't have a sortainer so can't take a tape measure and figure would a sortainer drawer with in a sys2-size box with a sys1 tool compartment and an attic lid or would the drawer's height just wither to nothing in that form factor.

Yeah, a one piece unit such as you describe would be excellent for power tools.

Seth

 

[semenza]

Actually  a 'Loc' version  of a pure Sortainer could just have a straight swing arm to connect to the  unit above it. About an inch wide and two inches long. That would fit in the frame space and not interfere  with drawers.

Seth

 

[semenza]

In addition to the shallow full width drawer, I could even go for a shallow drawer the width of three small drawers.

And a taller  large drawer (extra large?)

Seth

 

[Alan m]

i would like to be able to buy the sort/sys combo to with no drawers just a hole  and buy which ever drawers i wanted.
maybe a 1 large one, 2 shallow ones (full width ) , 2 half with but full height, 3 shallow ones, 3 narrow ones, 6 small ones, etc etc.

maybe even accesory specific ones like  a centrotec, jigsaw bases and blades(carvex bases) , router bit drawers with foam,

 

[Eli]

If they were going to put sort drawers at the bottom of a T-loc, they'd have to change the drawer housing. Whenever my sortainer goes over on its back or side, something inside jams up the drawer and you have to unstick it with a ruler or something. Imagine a whole stack of drawers constantly getting tipped back and forth? It would be a whole stack of stucks. A Stucktainer.

 

[bwiele]

A Stucktainer.

I just spit out some coffee on my keyboard laughing at this!

 

[panelchat]

drawers on the T loc!

certification to a decent dynamic load of 250 lbs or so, so you can stand on them instead of a small ladder while installing!
(im in nyc, can't fit a ladder in a taxi, but a sys 5 usually does the trick instead. but i'm only 150lbs and i'm pushing it...)

removable rubberized top option to help when you are using multiple common height stacks as saw horses. press fit nubbins or something. now i use sanding mat...

other top features to expand on the use of stacks as sawhorses.

these boxes are great, i've done small installs then gone to the beach right after, tools packed on one side of the systainer, swimsuit, towel, pie and beer on the other..

if they got their cost down to 30-45 bucks for a sys 4, they could take over the garages of north america for household storage. my friend's son wants them for his legos, tool-doubting spouses love them...