boatswainsmate
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Thanks
Let's see where you do your casting ? ?
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Rockydoc
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You've got to be kidding! I need shin guards just to wade around in there.
Someday his kids will cuss him. Or use a match and some gasoline....John G:
Your garage is full of crap, but at least it is well organized crap.
Joshua
Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
“Someday his kids will cuss him. Or use a match and some gasoline....“
Yes, his heirs will grumble.
But, the young tradesmen who walk away from the estate sale, with buckets of tools, will think of that “old dead guy” fondly for the rest of their careers.
Josh
Yes, his heirs will grumble.
But, the young tradesmen who walk away from the estate sale, with buckets of tools, will think of that “old dead guy” fondly for the rest of their careers.
Josh
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Herb in pa
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I do mine in my detached garage using a range hood vented outside and usually 
have both overhead doors open.
have both overhead doors open.
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
I really have sold off and tossed out many pickup truck and trailer loads. The other side not in the pictures posted in #144 above is nice and open. The master plan was, first, finish turning the old generator room into a nice reloading/casting room. Done. Next clean and organize the next space which is 24 x 24 and a single garage door and a man door. That's about done. The pictures are of the big side which will not be heated in the winter. So the pictures of the "organized mess" contains stuff to be tossed, given away, or sold. Trying to avoid leaving to much unorganized stuff for the kids. Plus I was tired of my reloading room sharing space with "stuff".
I used to have a automotive business, then a fishing charter business with 5 off shore vessels, and had rentals the whole time. When I sold everything to avoid bankruptcy I ended up with lots of support stuff from each kind a filled every nook and cranny.
Used panoramic phone mode for the old fisheye effect. South and west wall of casting area.
Continuing left to right, reloading bench, north wall and shelving east wall.
This is the reloading corner just outside the entrance to the reloading room. Shelves on the left primarily hold brass. Bench is for cleaning guns and smelting lead into ingots, the shelf to the right holds stuff for casting lubes, BR, BLL, and there's couple of quarts of Ed's Red along with the raw materials to make more.
This is a panoramic of the rest of the 24 x 24. Foamboard insulation and 2 x 2 nailers to finish the ceiling. It's only been 40 years, but why hurry. The stuff to the right of the materials is many boxes of teaching supplies from when Karyn was working. She's going through that and making it disappear.
The opening in the right wall has a sliding door to close off in winter to save heating fuel. Gone are the days of 60 cents a gallon heating oil and 8 cents a Kilowatt electricity. LED lights and more insulation.
Well that's my story to this point. Lots of projects but finally getting- making more time for casting, reloading and shooting.
I used to have a automotive business, then a fishing charter business with 5 off shore vessels, and had rentals the whole time. When I sold everything to avoid bankruptcy I ended up with lots of support stuff from each kind a filled every nook and cranny.
Used panoramic phone mode for the old fisheye effect. South and west wall of casting area.
Continuing left to right, reloading bench, north wall and shelving east wall.
This is the reloading corner just outside the entrance to the reloading room. Shelves on the left primarily hold brass. Bench is for cleaning guns and smelting lead into ingots, the shelf to the right holds stuff for casting lubes, BR, BLL, and there's couple of quarts of Ed's Red along with the raw materials to make more.
This is a panoramic of the rest of the 24 x 24. Foamboard insulation and 2 x 2 nailers to finish the ceiling. It's only been 40 years, but why hurry. The stuff to the right of the materials is many boxes of teaching supplies from when Karyn was working. She's going through that and making it disappear.
The opening in the right wall has a sliding door to close off in winter to save heating fuel. Gone are the days of 60 cents a gallon heating oil and 8 cents a Kilowatt electricity. LED lights and more insulation.
Well that's my story to this point. Lots of projects but finally getting- making more time for casting, reloading and shooting.
Hawk
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My wife chides me everytime we pass a pile of trash on the curb to be picked up by the City.
I have to slow down and oggle it.
Sometimes I have to stop and look at the stuff. Drives her crazy, but I've gotten a lot of good stuff that way.
Gave my mom a 3500 watt gas powered generator that I found set out to be picked up. It just needed the carberator flushed and fresh gas!
I have to slow down and oggle it.
Sometimes I have to stop and look at the stuff. Drives her crazy, but I've gotten a lot of good stuff that way.
Gave my mom a 3500 watt gas powered generator that I found set out to be picked up. It just needed the carberator flushed and fresh gas!
Hawk
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Yep, guilty on all counts. The only up side to curbside diving is, you can see it before u stop.
You'd be surprised at what people throw away, just because they have no mechanical abitlties or have more money than sense.
Also, I've built many deer stands and every piece of furniture (picnic tables, chairs, benches)at the deer lease have been free, thanks to fencing and weather treated decking that people have thrown away
Besides, it gives me something to tinker with and keeps me out of my wife's hair.
Read that as keeps me out of trouble!
You'd be surprised at what people throw away, just because they have no mechanical abitlties or have more money than sense.
Also, I've built many deer stands and every piece of furniture (picnic tables, chairs, benches)at the deer lease have been free, thanks to fencing and weather treated decking that people have thrown away
Besides, it gives me something to tinker with and keeps me out of my wife's hair.
Read that as keeps me out of trouble!