Using IKEA cabinets with rails to make Systainer 3 storage?
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jon003 said:
Thank you, although I have seen those quite a bit — I was actually looking for the indexing feet that you used to hold a Systainer in place on a drawer, so kind of the opposite of what you linked me:
jon003 said:
If you can't find them, no worries, I just thought it was a neat option instead of cutting holes for the feet in the drawer.
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I realise this is an old thread, but for anyone stumbling across it while searching for systainer storage ideas using IKEA cabinets, here’s the approach I used.
I was fed up of my garden office and workshop having messy, open shelves as the backdrop to my desk and workstation, so I wanted an efficient solution to store both my Festool boxes and Tanos Systainers that I bought to standardise my storage for everything else. This was partly prompted by the UK government auctioning off tens of thousands of Tanos Systainer TLoc V boxes which had been used for transporting PCR test kits during the Covid pandemic. eBay was awash with sellers offering TLoc Vs at a great price. I ended up buying 32 of them at around GBP £12.50 each (I saw the website of the company that sold them to the gov had them listed for £200-400 each …).
My solution was to use IKEA Metod kitchen cabinets (600mm wide x 600mm deep, and 600mm wide x 370mm deep) to create systainer storage with full extension sliding shelves, 3D printed systainer cleats and/or recesses routed in the shelves, to hold 2 systainers per shelf on the 600mm deep cabinets and 1 systainer per shelf on the 370mm deep cabinets. By using 2000mm high cabinets, I could accommodate 4 levels of shelves for Sys V TLoc boxes.
I modified the width of the cabinets to 470mm wide which fits the Systainer width, 2 x 12.7mm drawer slides and a bit of space on the shelf for the systainers. I left off the hardboard backs of the Metod cabinets to increase their depth, using a 50mm standoff from the wall to secure the cabinets to the wall. This allowed enough depth for a deeper shelf (~630mm) to be able to open both boxes while on the shelf in the fully extended position.
I’m really pleased with the IKEA hack and my workshop easily doubles as the backdrop to my garden office now without looking like I’m sitting in the garage while on video conference calls for work!
I was fed up of my garden office and workshop having messy, open shelves as the backdrop to my desk and workstation, so I wanted an efficient solution to store both my Festool boxes and Tanos Systainers that I bought to standardise my storage for everything else. This was partly prompted by the UK government auctioning off tens of thousands of Tanos Systainer TLoc V boxes which had been used for transporting PCR test kits during the Covid pandemic. eBay was awash with sellers offering TLoc Vs at a great price. I ended up buying 32 of them at around GBP £12.50 each (I saw the website of the company that sold them to the gov had them listed for £200-400 each …).
My solution was to use IKEA Metod kitchen cabinets (600mm wide x 600mm deep, and 600mm wide x 370mm deep) to create systainer storage with full extension sliding shelves, 3D printed systainer cleats and/or recesses routed in the shelves, to hold 2 systainers per shelf on the 600mm deep cabinets and 1 systainer per shelf on the 370mm deep cabinets. By using 2000mm high cabinets, I could accommodate 4 levels of shelves for Sys V TLoc boxes.
I modified the width of the cabinets to 470mm wide which fits the Systainer width, 2 x 12.7mm drawer slides and a bit of space on the shelf for the systainers. I left off the hardboard backs of the Metod cabinets to increase their depth, using a 50mm standoff from the wall to secure the cabinets to the wall. This allowed enough depth for a deeper shelf (~630mm) to be able to open both boxes while on the shelf in the fully extended position.
I’m really pleased with the IKEA hack and my workshop easily doubles as the backdrop to my garden office now without looking like I’m sitting in the garage while on video conference calls for work!
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