What do you store in your Systainer 1?

[Cannuck]

After having recently purchased a few of the Festool tools, I decided that I would buy a few Systainers and Sortainers to organize my non-Festool tools and tool accessories.  I really like the idea of keeping the accessories and parts in a stacking set that you can easily carry to a jobsite, with the tool - like the Domino and Domino systainer combo.

Anyway, I've found the Systainers 2 + 3 to be very useful, and the 4-drawer Sortainer is really useful. I had initially thought it would be the ideal "companion" size to my tools.  After some thought, I haven't been able to find very many uses for the Systainer 1 though - it is a tad smallish.  I didn't manage to fit my Bosch Flush-cut saw and accessories in the Sys 1, but that seems to be all that I've found a good use for it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Rob,
(Canadian Fes-junkie)

 

[nickao]

After having recently purchased a few of the Festool tools, I decided that I would buy a few Systainers and Sortainers to organize my non-Festool tools and tool accessories.  I really like the idea of keeping the accessories and parts in a stacking set that you can easily carry to a jobsite, with the tool - like the Domino and Domino systainer combo.

Anyway, I've found the Systainers 2 + 3 to be very useful, and the 4-drawer Sortainer is really useful. I had initially thought it would be the ideal "companion" size to my tools.  After some thought, I haven't been able to find very many uses for the Systainer 1 though - it is a tad smallish.  I didn't manage to fit my Bosch Flush-cut saw and accessories in the Sys 1, but that seems to be all that I've found a good use for it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Rob,
(Canadian Fes-junkie)

I have the systainer one that holds the router bits. I like it.

Nickao

 

[Frank Pellow]

I have three of them filled with (organized) scews, bolts, nails and othjer small hardware and parts.

 

[Ned]

Any suggestions?

Yes.  Never buy empty SYS 1s on spec!  As you've discovered, they're the least useful size.

I have the SYS 1 BOX, the one with all the little bright-colored boxes inside, and it's useful.  I know you can get the interior boxes separately.

You also need an insert for the base of the SYS 1, and a plate for under the lid.  Without the plate, the contents of the interior boxes can get mixed up.  You might be able to get these parts as spares from Festool service.  That might be Hafele in Canada, I don't know.

Ned

 

[jonny round boy]

I have 3 of the ones with the coloured boxes in - 1 for standard screws, one for 'Screw-Tite' (similar to Spax) screws, and one for kitchen-fitting related stuff (spare KD fittings, shelf studs, choc blocks, worktop bolts, etc).

I have another for my 2kg SDS drill, and one that is the small plastic vac tool set.

I also have a spare one with the diced foam inserts, which I bought on impulse thinking it'd come in useful. That was over 6 months ago...

Other than those, everthing else is in sys2's or larger.

 

[mastercabman]

jonny,you mention that you use screw-tite witch is similar to spax.i have seen the spax before but have not use it yet.i do cabinets installation and what i use now is square drive screws.
what can you tell me about those screws?what are the benefits?do they come in square drive?
i didn't mean to change the post,but i try to find a email address for you and i can't seem to find it.

 

[Peterm]

Had my combi drill and impact driver shoehorned into a Sys 1 but have just moved them to a Sys 2 which is much easier. I have one of the coloured-box Sys 1s for screws, and the spare Sys 1 will have more, and assorted fixings; couldn't find the black plastic insert anywhere, so made one out of thin MDF - works pretty well, actually...

Other than that, I have my CDD12, my Trion jiggy, and my Multimaster all in Sys 1s, no problem. Snug, for sure, but no problem.

@mastercabman - I know you didn't ask me, but Screw-Tite are a brand of screws, like Spax - available here. Never seen any square-drive, though some sizes are available as t-star. Spax are great, haven't used many screw-tite but haven't had any problems with them either.

Cheers, Pete.

 

[semenza]

Hi,

    I have an extra Sys - I from the old guide rail acc. kit.  I ended up using it for Trion accessories.  You could certainly use then for  no-Festool tools , such as drills , impact drivers and the like.

Seth

 

[Warrior]

In Sys 1:

Fein Multimaster saw and blades

Kreg jig and clamps

also have the sys 1 box for screws

 

[Frans]

I quite like the Sys1's:
- one with the Trion jigsaw
- three Sys1 Box filled with all kinds of screws, bolts, rings etcetera
- one filled with sandpaper (for sanding by hand, not with a machine)
- one holds my screwdrivers, torx drivers and allen keys
- one is filled with all kinds of copper or brass parts for plumbing

 

[Corwin]

Thanks to Ned, I now use an empty Systainer 1 on the top of a stack as a place to set down the current tool in use.  I've placed a pad on the bottom, and hope to locate those tool organizers that attach to the underside of the lid.  This has worked out great -- unlike placing your tool down on a flat surface where it could be pulled off by the cord and/or hose, using a Systainer 1 For this purpose I can now rest assured that the tool will not have that mishap.

 

[ScooterX]

I own a sign company. I use three Systainer 1's in the field for installations:

1. with foam top and bottom: small hand tools (socket set, catclaw prybar, screwdrivers, knife, vise grips, tape, glue,)
  (i tried a sortainer for this, but all the sizes were wrong, it cost a lot, and the only adantage was side-opening)
2. with foam on bottom only: specialized hardware (sign standoffs, or job-specific things)
3. the Vari, with an assortment of fasteners (screws, expansion bolts, mollybolts, washers, etc)

plus one in the shop:
4. for my MFT accessories (clamps, end stops. multitool and rail connectors)

5. i _may_ get a sys2 for my Dewalt hammer drill, just so i can stack it. its the only thing in the truck that slides around now, because it doesn't lock to the others.

if i sell my MacTools rolling tool cabinet, then I'll get two systainer ports to replace it, and then i'll need a couple of more systainers for the rest of the hand tools in the tool cabinet.

i can't decide if i want to put my Japanese chisels and the sharpening stones into a systainer or not. part of me wants to, and part of me wants to build a wooden box. maybe i'll make a wooden "systainer".

 

[honeydoman]

I use mine as a lunch box every day and the # 5 systainer for a seat to sit on and the #3 as the table for my #1 ;D

lol

just kidding.

#1 I use for the screws with the little boxes, another one with clamps,  another one with jig saw, another one for small hand tools.  probabaly going to buy 2 more of the little boxes one today for more screws etc.

 

[Frank-Jan]

One of my heaviest systainers is a n?1 (I think actually it is THE heaviest), it's filled to the brim with all sorts of pliers, clamps and snips for soldering work.
I also have one which stores my bostitch 18Gauge minibradnailer. The plastic latches for the bostich case had worn trough, and the hinge part was broken too, so I tore off the lid and cut the bottom part with my fein supercut till it fit the systainer snugly. The bottom of the bostich case is now the inlay for the systainer, I lined the top of the systainer with egshell foam I had left over from a small sound-isolation project. I was going to make compartments for small nails in the room that was left next to the "inlay", but the nailgun died on me before I got to do it. (I still have an old senco sls20, which still lives in it's own case)

 

[Warrior]

My RS 400 just moved in with my RO150, and aren't they just a cute couple. Left vacant was the Sys-1 bdrm apt. the new tenant is 12 sheets of each grit paper for the couple.

Eiji

 

[Steveo48]

I have three of them filled with (organized) scews, bolts, nails and othjer small hardware and parts.

I finally broke down and ordered the McFeeley's screw assortment with the systainer 1.  I'm soooo tired of running down stairs to get screws for my projects through out the house.

I could probably sell the systainer 1 and come out ahead. 

 

[turbogeezer]

MultiMaster with accessories.

The MM fits well, even without adding dividers or foam:

The film boxes have all the blades & stuff:

When I set myself up with Kreg pocket-hole stuff, probably another SYS-1.

 

[Frank Pellow]

I have three of them filled with (organized) scews, bolts, nails and othjer small hardware and parts.

Here is a picture of 2 of those 3 systainers:
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[Frank Pellow]

MultiMaster with accessories.

The MM fits well, even without adding dividers or foam:

The film boxes have all the blades & stuff:

When I set myself up with Kreg pocket-hole stuff, probably another SYS-1.

A Fein Multimaster is on my wish list and, if I get one, it will certainly be kept in a systainer 1.

 

[nclemmons]

I have two of them for tools -  a Fein Multimaster in one with the foam insert cut to fit it.  And a Foredom tool in a Systainer 1 with the pedal and bit sets.

neil