New Van

[Tinker]

quote>>>So to me Fiat = crap

 

[jimbouk]

After sorting my workshop out and getting the stuff I needed  this is all I managed to get done to day.

I suppose it's a start lol

I used nut rivets to attach battens to van and then counter battens using pocket hole screws and then CNC'd holes for T-nuts

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Pics finally working! Looking good i like that idea. I was thinking of a similar kind of modular thing using uni strut but i think your idea might work better.

I do the same with the mpg. Average is 35 at the moment and lots of that is in town.

 

[jmbfestool]

Sorry for the delay!! Just been so busy.

Next weekend hopefully get onto creating the modules for the systainers/T-locs

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[jmbfestool]

500 t-nuts..... Yay!
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Kinda wish they made vans straight inside would have made it easier to get it all straight.
Had to come out to 100+mm to get it all straight.

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[MAK]

Very neat job Jmb.
How are you finding the van?  Test drove one this week 125 engine same as yours but want to try the 155.

Can I ask why you kept the floor liner and not put ply on floor? It seemed very slippery to me

 

[Jak147]

Jmb I didn't know you were starting a mobile in-van climbing wall!!
Seriously thou, it looks awesome. I'm looking forward to seeing how you make use of all those t nuts

 

[jmbfestool]

Very neat job Jmb.
How are you finding the van?  Test drove one this week 125 engine same as yours but want to try the 155.

Can I ask why you kept the floor liner and not put ply on floor? It seemed very slippery to me

Although I felt the 125 didn't have much grunt... Acceleration... to be honest even when I had a van full of tools it pretty much drove the same.  So for me the 125 is fine.

I was seeing how well I would go on with the floor liner.  I like it but at the same time dislike it.

Like you say it is a little slippery but all my tools and materials (when I'm finished) will be fixed so it doesn't mater. 
Another thing which annoyed me when I left my side door open the sun was shinning on the liner and it all bubbled up like a bouncy castle.  Obviously the van being totally empty there is nothing to keep it weighted down but it's a poor design.

Saying that it's light and if I do a ply floor I am just adding more weight and cost and time.  I can always do it on a later date.  The panels are all above the liner even where the liner mould goes up the sides so I should be able to remove the liner if I ever needed to or add ply flooring no problem.

 

 

[jmbfestool]

Jmb I didn't know you were starting a mobile in-van climbing wall!!
Seriously thou, it looks awesome. I'm looking forward to seeing how you make use of all those t nuts

I could park the van on a hill to make the climbing more challenging.

I my self don't know what I'm going to do with all the t-nuts yet lol.  I'm just winging it.

 

[woodguy7]

Looks good son far though.  Is the workshop done ?  Any new pics ?

 

[jmbfestool]

My design had to have 3 things.

Easy removal
Adaptable
Compatible with my workshop

I think I have achieved this.

I haven't finished still got some shelves to add and brackets for my festool rails and spirit levels etc.

But at least now it's not doing my head in going to jobs hearing everything sliding about and having it all on top of each other not being able to get at anything easily.

So here are so more pictures.

Instead of making a complete unit for the festool boxes I have made light weight yet sturdy individual boxes for every systainer/T-loc well I say every.... I haven't got round to making one for every box I own yet

This allows me to just add or remove the tools I want for specific jobs.
It allows me access to every box even when they are stacked on top of each other this is either in my van or in my workshop.

So instead of having empty shelves or spaces in my workshop when my van has them stored I'm not wasting space in two places. They either take up space in my van or in my workshop not both. I'm simply going to make trolleys so they can come out off my van and be trolleyed around my workshop. 

I kept thinking I'll make a large racking unit with draws for my T-locks/sustainers but then it's more cost and when the sustainers/T-locs are not in their place it's just dead space for no reason.

Then I do the same in my van and I've  wasted double the amount of space.

Then to add to this if I wanted to remove my racking from my van because I wanted to load a pallet or a large unit into my van then I would have to store my van racking in my workshop. 

So that's when I decided I wanted my van racking to be part of my workshop racking.

Anyway pictures!!

 

[jmbfestool]

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[Nippychippy]

Well done jmb that is looking great it must be the most modular van out there I really like the boxes. It must have been a hell of a lot of work but it will be so worth it in the end

 

[richy3333]

WOW! Thats sooo cool. I love it. Just what I wanted but didn't have the vision. Absolutely lovely mate

 

[Mercury]

Great job. Love the way you have sorted the space wasted in workshop or van by moving the storage. Might have to steal your ideas [big grin]. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Kev]

WOW! Thats sooo cool. I love it. Just what I wanted but didn't have the vision. Absolutely lovely mate

That's nothing, wait till he mounts the CNC on the roof [wink]

 

[jmbfestool]

Well done jmb that is looking great it must be the most modular van out there I really like the boxes. It must have been a heck of a lot of work but it will be so worth it in the end

Yes more work than I had anticipated. Then again I had no idea what I was planning on doing.
I spent some time just stareing into the van lol.

Few things already I would change slightly but nothing to bother me or could alter later if I wanted.  Benefit to modular

 

[joiner1970]

Theres a guy on the Stanley forum doing a VW t5 but he has built a metal frame and its all for dewalt boxes. Same sort of thing hes put a lot of thought into it too

http://www.stanleytools.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6198