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joiner1970 said:
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
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I like his racking nice.

Works well.  The Dewalt brackets are a good idea.

Just thinking if I could do the same with the T-locks/sustainers.

I would struggle to make them sturdy I think plus il loose the stacking feature in the workshop.

Ummm  might use it for my CT26 VAC. 

I've currently just strapped it but I want to create a proper home for it later on.

 
Good thing with yours Brett is that you could sell the plans just like Ron paulk, etc, as they're CNC.
 
Great ideas, JMB.  How much hastle is it to set each tray when loading/unloading?

Just a thought: Do you use a large flat washer with each bolt?  To use washer headed bolts I don't think would be enough.  Eventually, the heads would start to chew into the wood frames they are holding. 
Tinker
 
Tinker said:
Great ideas, JMB.  How much hastle is it to set each tray when loading/unloading?

Just a thought: Do you use a large flat washer with each bolt?  To use washer headed bolts I don't think would be enough.  Eventually, the heads would start to chew into the wood frames they are holding. 
Tinker
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Yeah I do.  At the time I didn't have any other bolts which fitted the 10mm thread.  So the ones in the picture you can see are just temp. It allowed me to be able to put them in place and get a feel.  I'll get a picture of the bolts I actually used for final fixing.

It's very  easy to set up because the panels and the backs of the units are CNC'd. When you stick four bolts in they automatically straighten up all you have to do is slide them up or down.

Once you have the first row set job done rest just fallow on.

They are strong enough to hold my boxes but I feel with the roads I drive on bouncing about and a lot of corners I have made some module legs and bracket to give extra support to the stacks which are floating.  This also speeds up setting up time because you place them on first and the job done.  I'll take some pictures.
 
joiner1970 said:
Good thing with yours Brett is that you could sell the plans just like Ron paulk, etc, as they're CNC.
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Yeah. Only down side is I only part CNC'd it.  Panels are CNC'd and I just didn't Cnc holes roughly where I was going to cut out for let's say my arches because I thought it would be quicker for me seen as its a one off.

Also the units for the t-locks/Systainers are all made up with off cuts birch ply I have in my work shop I ripped down to 50mm.  I have enough off cuts to rack out 10vans lol.  Only the backs are CNC'd which are made with off cuts also. 

If it wasn't for me wanting to get rid of my of fcuts and make use of them. I think it would have been better of in terms of time to Cnc the lot from a sheet.  I think in terms of cost per sheet and my time I recon just spending money on a sheet would have been more cost affective. 

Although I have built a prototype pocket hole machine and I am in the process of drawing up a final design to Cnc the pocket hole machine. It's still a slower process than a CNC'd version

I'll get some pictures how I would have done the joints instead of pocket holes.  I made these with off cuts and was planning on making  flat pack says-rack out of birch with draws.
 
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This is better than pocket holes.  Much stronger, quicker in terms of labour time for me.  They are solid even dry fitted no glue.  Really hard to get them apart and hold square once they are all tapped in.

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This is my prototype it's had few modifications over its life span.  It was horizontal but my back was hurting after doing 800pocket holes in a row. Also it was foot operated at one point but that hurt over time because it was hard to keep your foot up and down. 

Just did another 800 pocket holes in a row last week having it like it is now much better on my back and I managed to do them all without stopping having some passing and taking the parts from me.  I was litterly like a machine.  My arm felt like Popeye!

 

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Wow that's a great job. I was wondering how you was going to construct the modules.
Fantastic JMB ;D
 
A super, refreshing and modular approach, well done.

Your "sys docks" kind of remind of Bosch 1600A001SC i-BOXX Inactive Racks.  Though in your instance the dock is holding the systainer whereas the Bosch is the outer shell of a Boxx designed to accept a smaller box; if that makes sense.

Good job, more to follow I hope.

Threads like this always prove popular.
 
mac sparrow said:
A super, refreshing and modular approach, well done.

Your "sys docks" kind of remind of Bosch 1600A001SC i-BOXX Inactive Racks.  Though in your instance the dock is holding the systainer whereas the Bosch is the outer shell of a Boxx designed to accept a smaller box; if that makes sense.

Good job, more to follow I hope.

Threads like this always prove popular.
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Yeah makes sense just googled them. Never knew Bosch made them.

What I would like festool to do is copy my design but add a few design features which for me to do would be to difficult.

I would like to see festool do a similar design but instead off making all different sizes to fit each box size they can make just two size which are adjustable.
So have a small and large. The small will take the small boxes to medium size T-loca/systainers and the large will do medium to large T-loc/Sys.

The adjustment can be like two metal rods with a plastic horizontal which was independent which slides up or down with indentations for location to support the unit above.

Another feature they could do to replace my million holes I cnced they could sell rods/bars which you fix to your van and their units clip onto them and just unclip no screwing/unscrewing

i would buy them. If I knew what I was doing I would get them manufactured as after market accessories but I don't  [sad]

 
Quote >>> If I knew what I was doing I would get them manufactured as after market accessories but I don't  [sad]
 
Well being able to remove the module boxes came in handy yesterday getting all the sheets in.

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Oh and the bright light isn't the Sun but my vans super bright LED lights  [tongue]
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JMB quote>>> If it wasn't for me wanting to get rid of my of fcuts and make use of them. I think it would have been better of in terms of time to Cnc the lot from a sheet.  I think in terms of cost per sheet and my time I recon just spending money on a sheet would have been more cost affective. 
 
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