« Reply #29 on: February 02, 2019, 09:59 AM »
To store the hard copies of my Festool manuals, I use Staples Better Mini Binders with 1” D rings. Each binder holds a maximum of 6 or 7 manuals. The binders have clear plastic pockets on the spine and front cover, and fit the manuals very well.
To “punch” the ring holes in the manuals, make a template and a backer board. Clamp the manual(s) between the template and backer. Use a sharp brad point bit to drill the holes. The binders were appx $7 each.
Those are the mini binders I've been using. One of my issues with them is that my Brother Labels don't like to stick to the edges without having some Scotch tape holding them on, but I'm gonna try to see if some Elmers glue stick might resolve that although I doubt that will work.
In regards to punching the holes. I had looked previously for a hole punching machine that didn't cost $300 that could handle what are some pretty thick half sheet sized owners manuals, but I couldn't find anything til now. Just yesterday I was in my local Staples and lo and behold, there it was for $50 bucks. I know they didn't have this last fall when I was looking into this.
I relocated the center punch so that it could align properly to execute the punching of the first two holes, and placed a piece of painters tape to align the edge to punch the third hole. Handles a 60 page (30 sheets) manual for my Bosch 18V OMT no problem. It's rated for 45 pages, but I haven't found one of my manuals I haven't done already that is that thick.
I did punch thru the holes of one of my 60 page Festool manuals which has a cardstock cover. It went thru that no prob also. Thing is, for some reason I don't mind my Festool manuals stored the way are right now in plastic sleeves in a full sized binder, it's all the other brands I want to have in half sized binders. Go figure!
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