I tipped over my 55” Festool track saw rail and bent it along the spine. There was no fixing it and I said DIRTY words! It has almost happened 20 times and I kept “meaning to do something about it…” That painful monetary loss was the final push I needed to get the track off the floor and out from leaning on the walls of my shop. My wife left me unsupervised for the weekend and I spent like 22 hours in the shop over a two-day period designing, prototyping, making, and installing a track saw rail organization system. That amount of solid non-wife time would have been bad juju if she were at home.
I do not have any easily accessed extra wall space, so I looked around, saw that both of my garage doors were empty and said, “Hmmm…” I decided to build a rack that would mount on the door, allow it to move without any removal of the rails, and keep the rails secure during the entire transit up and down. I ended up with a tiered slot design and because I have 5 different sized tracks, I made two sets of holders.
It took some figuring and I tacked together 2 mock-ups, before I got it right. Each hanger (8 total) is made from 3 sections of ¾” ply and 6 sections 3/16” ply, all laminated together with Titebond II glue and the layers are secured together with two secondary opposing wood screws. Each bracket is fastened to the door with three #10-1” Sheet Metal screws and are all within 1/32” level across the entire 9’ door. The door moves up and down freely and the track rails don’t budge during the entire transit.
Really proud of how these worked out and believed I was the smartest wood-necromancer that hath ever cast a man-glitter incantation – right up until I went on the Festool Forum to post/brag about my giant bucket of smarts and saw four VERY similar designs that were years old… I did a really quick drawing of my version of these and you can find it here:
http://mattofmanytrades.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Track-Saw-Bracket_Matt-Talley_2019.pdf