[Project 7] 7-drawer Sys-port

[mattbyington]

Bob ( [member=9993]marino[/member] or [member=49863]Marino83[/member] not sure which handle is his ) Marino delivered another Christmas present to me Saturday morning.

75" guide rail and 7 Sys A-z Drawers.

A couple weeks ago I had picked up some gorgeous 3/4" baltic birch plywood, 2 sheets of 5' x 5', in preparation for making a Sys port.

I am getting tired of stacking and unstacking all my systainers when I need them. It's a small thing but it does get old.

Here's the plan:
Sys 1
Sys 1
Sys 2
Sys 2
Sys 2
Sys 4
(extra Sys 2 space)

Going to paint the inside white and outside grey to match my garage walls.

Butt joints with dominos for joinery.

I got some nice 5" casters from Amazon should work well.

Yesterday I got the sides, bottom and top cut out.

This morning I got up and drilled all the holes - I don't have an LR32 system so I just measured carefully. Hopefully it works out.

I made the cabinet 18.25" deep when the Systainers only need 14-15" I think.

I'm going to see if I can do some low profile clamp storage on the back, inset, since I have about 60" height. We will see!!

Matt

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[mattbyington]

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[nclemmons]

7 projects in 65 posts!  Matt, you are making the rest of us look bad!

 

[Cheese]

Hey Matt, things are looking good, I need to make a couple of those myself.

FWIW...rather than spending $535 for a LR 32 Set, I purchased the Woodpeckers Shelf Pin Template for $69. It's a great alternative if you don't make a bunch of cabinets everyday. 
https://www.woodpeck.com/shelfpintemplate.html

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[mattbyington]

Thank you [member=167]neilc[/member] !!

[member=44099]Cheese[/member] nice that thing would have come in handy!!

Matt

 

[jrb9]

I have the Rockler jig and it works pretty well
http://www.rockler.com/pro-shelf-drilling-jig

The Woodpecker jig looks cool for shelves but I'm not sure how you would drill the holes for the back of a slide, if the depth of your case isn't 37mm from the appropriate hole. Maybe I'm missing something?

 

[RKA]

I’m wondering the same myself.  It seems like they could have offered 1-2 more setbacks like the did for the 1/4” holes.  Strange that they didn’t.

 

[mattbyington]

OK team big glue up tonight ! Bessey clamps arrived so tonight was the night.

Hoping everything is square.

You can start to make out the 3-4 inch space in the back where I plan on storing the clamps vertically.

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[sancho57]

Man my Brutha you drank the Green Kool ade and now on the slippery slope from which there is no return  [jawdrop]

 

[mattbyington]

[member=10147]jobsworth[/member] yes sir I did haha. Not even ashamed. It's nice to have a hobby that you enjoy and can just spend an hour or two here and there and come back to it every few days when you have time.

In total this cabinet will probably take me 3-4 weeks to make but I enjoy the process. I'm still learning a lot.

Got up early this morning and removed the clamps. The drawers fit!

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[rst]

Jobsworth, he's still young...he'll have plenty of time for his kids college fund later.  [wink]

 

[mattbyington]

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[sancho57]

Jobsworth, he's still young...he'll have plenty of time for his kids college fund later.  [wink]

Thats what I thought, now my kids have to get jobs and pay for their own college. Especially since I started coming here and learning about all te various jigs and things...

 

[mattbyington]

Painted the back (where the clamps will mount) white last night.

Next steps:
1) Put the casters on
2) Paint the outside 2 sides and top grey (same color as the front lip)
3) Design and add cleats for the Bessey clamps to mount on the back.

Then she's done!!

Will send pictures this weekend after the above!

Matt

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[macrutt]

Matt,

Great taste , and the sysport is very well done too !

Take care George

 

[dltflt]

Look great!  Now you need to buy more tools so you can make another one b

 

[nclemmons]

Matt - the color combination looks great.

I think this is the first Sysport I've seen with handles on the side.  That's a great idea!