Let's see where you do your casting ? ?

Rockydoc

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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.

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Used panoramic phone mode for the old fisheye effect. South and west wall of casting area.

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Continuing left to right, reloading bench, north wall and shelving east wall.

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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.

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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.
Man, you got a lot of STUFF. Well organized too. Good job.
I'll bet you can find where you put whatever it is you are looking for, too. That is a problem for me. My wife will say "Why are you saving THAT?" I say "I may need it some day." The day when I need it comes and I can't find it and have to buy a new one.
 

Rockydoc

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John, don't mind, most of us here have it worse than you do. I was thinking Rocky needs to push that Audi outside and build some more benches and shelves in there. :rofl:
That IS a laugh! :rofl: Those of us who have been married to the same person for a long time know there are certain things we must do (concessions?) in order to keep getting to do the things we do.
That Audi is hers, so it stays right where she wants it to stay. You know what I mean?;)

We have been married for 55 years, so I must have been doing something right.
 

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Man, you got a lot of STUFF. Well organized too. Good job.
I'll bet you can find where you put whatever it is you are looking for, too. That is a problem for me. My wife will say "Why are you saving THAT?" I say "I may need it some day." The day when I need it comes and I can't find it and have to buy a new one.

Yup, and three or four items that I bought when I was more scattered out to replace the one I couldn't find at that time. Now at last count I believe I have 17 caulking guns. Just an example.
If I could have a garage, yard sale without having to have prospective customers bring a sleep bag. Not going to feed them breakfast that's for sure.
 

Rick H

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I'll take a stab at that....bottom pour and elevation gives you a view of what you are doing without standing on your head.
 
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Walks

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Me too, I like to see the flow of Lead going into each cavity.
And it helps to form a good puddle/sprue, to ensure solid uniform bases.
 

hrpenley

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Thank you Cherokee, My wife likes to shoot also, unlike some of my friends I got a chance to put together a pretty good shop over the years without the complaints ;)