Sustainer Plans

[Birdhunter]

My "collection" of Sustainers has gotten a little out of hand and I want to build a couple of racks with pull out drawers. Each drawer has to pull out enough for the Sustainer lid to open fully.

I was hoping someone had built such a rack and would share the plans.

I'd buy the Festool rack except it is too heavy for me to wrestle it into my shop.

 

[wow]

This has been discussed many times, but you may not find the info you are looking for unless you do the 'magic' search. Try "Homemade Sysport'.

[big grin]

I believe it is generally accepted that a 16" full-travel drawer slide will get you the clearance that you want. Some people have used 14" slides ad are happy, but I think it's just a LITTLE too close...

I am in the planning stages for one for myself, and had the same questions - and more. Hope this info helps?!

 

[Birdhunter]

Thanks. I had been using the wrong search terms.

 

[Carl Prentiss]

Also try "diy" in place of "homemade". (I don't think Boolean searches are supported here)

 

[dltflt]

[attachimg=2]This is what I am drawing up right now.  I am pretty much complete.  The cubbies behind each row of Systainers is for short pieces of scraps.  I figured I would fill the void and get rid of my mobile wood cart.  The Kapex is going in the center and the UG's will be mounted on either side.

 

[Carl Prentiss]

Just a random factoid and potential gotcha if you're building to close heights. Systainers have feet that disappear when stacked but add about 7mm to the height when sitting alone.

 

[rst]

I definitely understand the out of hand reference. I just did an inventory and discovered to my financial horror that I own 64 systainer and sortainers.  These are a rag tag combo of old style, new style. midis and sortainers.  I made my own mobile bases and have made one rack using 8020 Ht series 9706 tubing  although this rack is for my 10 Stack-On DCOG-10 bins.  This size as serendipity would have it fits my systainers width wise.

 

[adugas]

Timothy Wilmonts has some workbench ideas you might want to incorporate, check it out. He has some other festool idea under woodshop tips and tricks on his site. Its worth a look as i think its what your looking for.

http://www.benchworks.be/sysport.html

cheers

 

[Offshoreman69]

Hey Birdhunter

One suggestion I can offer if you are going to build your own custom Sysport is the slides themselves. There are several hardware suppliers that make slides that lock in the open and closed position. Very very handy if you are rolling around the Sysport and don't want all the slides falling open on their own. I found these from a salvage company that pulled them from IT  component racks and they worked really well.

http://www.accuride.com/Industrial/Product/Details.asp?ProductID=140&CatID=&ProductName=Industrial-3357

Good luck

 

[Birdhunter]

I bought over travel drawer slides from Rockler. They open 16" plus a little over travel. I think I'll buy an MFT top and trim it to fit the size I need. I have gotten some great ideas from all the above inputs.