uses for systainers

[ultgar]

 

[Alan m]

just thought id post a pic of an insert i made (fast and with no care put into it) to hold my cartride tubes .
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probably not as efficient as the tannos one buy cost me nothing and save me a lot of hassel looking for the right tube

in hind sight i would have put the holes closer and got a few more in but i thought it would be really weak

 

[semenza]

Looks good. Getting it made  is what counts sometimes. Besides it is a good way to test in case you want to revise it with different features.

Did you leave the one undrilled spot for something specific?

I take it the plastic wrap seals up the open tubes well?

Seth

 

[Alan m]

i took the 2nd pic before i drilled for the nozzles. the pic i took of it finished loaded wouldnt show so i used the older one. the top pic has holes drilled for the nozzles in that space and a few other places.

the plastic wrap works great for sealing them up. use plenty of it and they will last a long time. doesnt work with gripfill as it sets a bit  with time

 

[Frank Pellow]

Storing glass pieces that are too big to throw away

One of my recent hobbies is stained glass.  In the year that I having been making stained glass objects, I have collected a lot of pieces that are too small to store in one of my regular glass storage boxes, but too small to throw away.  

Today, I organized these pieces into three colour groups then stored then in three home-made trays in a systainer 4.

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In the rightmost photo, behind the systainer, you can see one of boxes that I use to store larger pieces of glass.

 

[Jonhilgen]

I just started to keep shims in a sys 2 (shimtainer) for cabinet installs,  and I'm really glad I did.  Whenever I bought a bundle of shims and started to use them on site, they would seem to scatter everywhere.  Now they're neatly stored and easy to move from room to room with my drills.  I can even be really selective and find those few shims with really fine points when I need em. 

Jon

 

[nydesign]

I got inspired by this thread to finally organize a couple of systainer's to hold my abrasives.
I used two sys 2 T-loc's and some 1/4" ply.
To get the funky curve on the systainer back I used a pattern guide I had for tiling.
The project took about an hour, I wish I had done this years ago!
I added some labels since I took the pics.

 

[semenza]

Good idea using the box tops for labels.

Seth

 

[festooldude]

just made this yesterday.. i order some T-locs this week, so they'll be in maybe wednesday.. 
I got a makita lxt 14,4v comboset (drill and impact drill) and they ame in a classic sys.. hate that,
because i got all tlocs..
So, i just ordered a bunch for the makita set, drills and bitset,  an ets125 sys for my bosch orbital sander [embarassed]
and some extra's

i came up with this idea thinkin of buying the centrotec sys, but i dont have a festool cordless, so
no real use for it.. started lookin' for a insert that was usable for my idea, but couldn't find one..
so just made one myself..

costed about 4 hours figurin it out, and making it..

 

[festooldude]

and uh,, i still need to fill the empty space in te middle with my heller wood drill bitset, ( left space is heller Cobalt drill set 25 pcs 0.5-13mm)
also need to fill the bottom one with my speeddrills, but their scatterd all over.. so gotta find them..

also, need to buy new bits.. always seem to lose them little bast****... gheghe.. 

for me its really nice keeping everything together, and having a little stock with me at all times..  also can easily see what i'm missing
when cleaning up at a jobsite, so i never forget anything..

thanks for looking..

Rick

 

[Tom the Remodeler]

I'll take some pics of my T-Locs, for now here are pics of my Maxi Systainers  [smile] I haven't yet got around to making inserts for these tools and accessories yet, it's on my ever-expanding list of Things To Do.  [scared]

 

[nydesign]

Good idea using the box tops for labels.

Seth

The box tops were temporary, I ended up using a label machine to I.D the grits.
I might scan the box tops and make stickers for the outside of the systainers so I know what's in each one.
I'll end up with 3 or 4 sys 2 boxes full of abrasives and sander accessories.

 

[Timtool]

I made my own toolbox insert to have a systainer toolbox ready for the occasional job site work, i could have bought the one from festool, but besides being expensive it won't hold the tools i actually need. I could have also gone the stacked lids route to store much more in the systainer, but i fear it would quickly get filled with stuff i don't need and garbage. This way i have everything at hand and can tell if anything is missing in a glimpse. The top storage lid is nice to store all kinds of small things.
there are also places to store the standard festool boxes from the box systainer, each one can hold either 1 big green box, 3 yellow boxes or 6 red boxes.
Note the syslite storage, and level storage in the lid!

homemade systainer toolbox

 

[Alan m]

great job tim.
hell of a lot cheaper than the festool ones

 

[fritter63]

I made my own toolbox insert to have a systainer toolbox ready for the occasional job site work, i could have bought the one from festool, but

Nice! Can you maybe start another thread with mucho more details pics of the construction techniques? What type of material, how to join it together well, etc?

Thanks.

 

[peter halle]

I made my own toolbox insert to have a systainer toolbox ready for the occasional job site work, i could have bought the one from festool, but

Nice! Can you maybe start another thread with mucho more details pics of the construction techniques? What type of material, how to join it together well, etc?

Thanks.

I'll second that!

Peter

 

[Timtool]

I made my own toolbox insert to have a systainer toolbox ready for the occasional job site work, i could have bought the one from festool, but

Nice! Can you maybe start another thread with mucho more details pics of the construction techniques? What type of material, how to join it together well, etc?

Thanks.

thank you,
there is a link to my website with a full article in the video description on youtube, but here it is again.

 

[nclemmons]

Tim -

Thank you!

Would you be willing to share the sketch up file you put together? 

Thanks for the video walkthrough and the link to your site.

Do you make the workbenches that are mentioned there?

Thanks -

Neil

 

[fritter63]

I made my own toolbox insert to have a systainer toolbox ready for the occasional job site work, i could have bought the one from festool, but

Nice! Can you maybe start another thread with mucho more details pics of the construction techniques? What type of material, how to join it together well, etc?

Thanks.

thank you,
there is a link to my website with a full article in the video description on youtube, but here it is again.

Great, thanks! Like your CAD/Template approach. I've used the same technique to create master templates for my guitar soundboards (locates bracing positions, etc) using MDF with the plans spray glued on.

Maybe some day I can afford a small CNC system for such.

 

[Timtool]

Tim -

Thank you!

Would you be willing to share the sketch up file you put together? 

Thanks for the video walkthrough and the link to your site.

Do you make the workbenches that are mentioned there?

Thanks -

Neil

Yup i make those, i have just cleaned up the sketchup model to the changes i did during the build and shared it. Just look for "systainer toolbox" in the model library. Contains the model and a print ready layout, but i suggest you adapt it to your needs/tools first!