My take on home made SysPorts....

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fritter63

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Continuing my quest of "die kaos theorie" in my shop.... here are my newly completed home made SysPorts.

Construction: light grey melamine, birch ply, black walnut scraps, wheels from Rockler, slides from Custom Service Hardware (14" full extension),  

Paint: Benjamin Moore "sweat pea" 2031-30

Tooling used: TS55, Domino, MFK 700, CXS, OF 1400, LR 32, installers kit

Cost: ~$100 each

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oops. Adding pictures of the "pulls", cut with a european "finger pull" router bit:

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Sparktrician said:
EEEEWWWWW!!!!  You said the "M"-word!!!   [poke]   [poke] 
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Yeah, debated that for a month, but it was 50% less than ply...  [cool]

But you'll appreciate this. I took my wife out to show her after the carcases were together and she said "All that work IKEA?".... [doh]
 
fritter63 said:
But you'll appreciate this. I took my wife out to show her after the carcases were together and she said "All that work IKEA?".... [doh]
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Buy that gal a beer, Fritter!!  She's right on target!!! 

[thumbs up]

 
Guilliaume woodworks said:
Nice job ..like the colored casters...btw my wife threatened to hire ikea to do our kitchen if I don't start on it soon.
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It's such a PITA to have to get a new wife.  They do it to themselves it seems. [big grin]
 
By the way, this reference is in the long sysports thread from back in 2011.

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I went in to my Ben Moore dealer one time about 4 years ago with the clasp from my systainer to colour match the Festool Green.  By eye, the girl matched it to Sweet Pea.  The machine reader could not even do it.  I was real impressed with her abilities on that and other occasions to do such when coming up with correct colours and is why I go there versus the BB stores.  Since that time, I have read many times on this forum that Sweet Pea is just about the most bang on match out there.
 
Fritter, nice job,  and for $100 bucks each, however how much is your time worth to plan, get materials, cut materials, paint, go get paint, put together etc....
that is something we seem to forget when we make stuff is our time, even though it is not money out of our pockets we could be working and making money at the same time..

but it is rewarding to make it ourselves !!

thanks for sharing
 
honeydokreg said:
Fritter, nice job,  and for $100 bucks each, however how much is your time worth to plan, get materials, cut materials, paint, go get paint, put together etc....
that is something we seem to forget when we make stuff is our time, even though it is not money out of our pockets we could be working and making money at the same time..

but it is rewarding to make it ourselves !!

thanks for sharing
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Well, good point kreg, but you have to remember I'm a hobbyist. I do this for fun! If I applied that criteria I'd have no shop and would buy all my furniture!

Of course, I've built most of the stuff we need, so now I have time for infrastructure...
 
Dang, I wish I could see the original pics! Is that common after a few years? I've noticed the majority of pics from 2008-2010 show as "broken" or not available

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TheMarvelousOne said:
Dang, I wish I could see the original pics! Is that common after a few years? I've noticed the majority of pics from 2008-2010 show as "broken" or not available
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Unfortunately there was a catastrophic failure and a lot of photos from those times were lost forever. Some people have updated posts or re-posted new photos, but there are still thousands missing.

It was a very sad day...  [crying]
 
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