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David Johnson
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Here's a couple views of my bench. About a year or so ago. The piles tend to move about depending on what I'm working on. I may not be "organized" but I know where everything is! LOL.
Reloader762
Active Member
I'm currently using the outbuilding where I live. At my old house I had a nice long workbench in the garage that was heated and cooled. Since I have no extra space in the house I'm in I plan to get me a nice outbuilding next year that I can turn into a true man cave.
The current building didn't have a workbench so I bough an old office desk at the local Restore for 15 bucks,the entertainment center with the pullout shelf was a freebie setting beside the road for trash pickup and I got the office chair at a local college one day while I was making a delivery. It was going in the trash with only a broken caster holder which I easily fixed with a $5 tube of JB Weld. The rack cost more than all the rest combine.
My casting setup is over at my buddies house just down the road as he has more space,we usually get together over there several times a month to cast some bullet and talk shop or have a shooting day with some friends and family and cook some stuff on the grill.
The current building didn't have a workbench so I bough an old office desk at the local Restore for 15 bucks,the entertainment center with the pullout shelf was a freebie setting beside the road for trash pickup and I got the office chair at a local college one day while I was making a delivery. It was going in the trash with only a broken caster holder which I easily fixed with a $5 tube of JB Weld. The rack cost more than all the rest combine.
My casting setup is over at my buddies house just down the road as he has more space,we usually get together over there several times a month to cast some bullet and talk shop or have a shooting day with some friends and family and cook some stuff on the grill.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
Very nice Reloader, but way too neat. Seriously, I always admire resourcefulness and a willingness and ability to re-purpose that which others see as no longer useful.
Reloader762
Active Member
Back when I hit the big 50 life was great but then I got laid off from a job I though I would retire from,things went down hill from there and it was almost two years before I was employed again making half what I did then. I re-purposed lots of things back then but it's a way of life nowadays. Life is Good.
Reloader762
Active Member
I use it all the time,things get pulled out and used but I always straighten up when I'm done. My job requires me to keep things in order and work in a clean environment so it naturally bleeds over into my hobby. Here is my old Lyman Orange Crusher press,it's the first press I bought when I was around 16 years old and the only one I have ever owned. I have no idea how many rds. of pistol and rifle ammo I've loaded on it over 40 years.Dude, do you actually ever use that bench?
At least make it look broken in.
I still have the first press I owner, a Lee, but it doesn't get used any more. I upgraded to a Redding T7. I only have room for that one press on the bench, other than the Dillon which has its own place.
I wish I was a more organized person. I try but it never lasts for long.
I wish I was a more organized person. I try but it never lasts for long.
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358156hp
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You need to spill some lead on the desktop or something to make it look lived-in.
smokeywolf
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I have only one press; the Hollywood single stage in the pic in post number 12. My problem with organizing is, my reloading area has to share space with my machine shop. The machine shop includes a Bridgeport mill, a fairly large engine lathe, 4 shelf units full of tooling, a full size 2 door flammables cabinet, 3 roll-aways and 7 machinist chests. Then there's the 5 RC model boats ranging from 3 to 5 feet long and 4 RC model planes with 5 to 9 foot wingspans. Plus, I have model engines that have yet to be used in a plane or boat.
Almost forgot, need another bench to do leather work.
I'm desperate to move and separate my reloading area from my machine shop. Need room to add more Hollywood presses and measures, another casting pot and maybe a Star sizer/luber. Also want a separate bench for gunsmithing.
Mrs. smokeywolf asked the other day about my desire to add duplicates to the reloading tooling and to my meager little assortment of guns. I responded, "We have more than one son". She said, "Oh, you're right".
Most logical female I've ever known.
Almost forgot, need another bench to do leather work.
I'm desperate to move and separate my reloading area from my machine shop. Need room to add more Hollywood presses and measures, another casting pot and maybe a Star sizer/luber. Also want a separate bench for gunsmithing.
Mrs. smokeywolf asked the other day about my desire to add duplicates to the reloading tooling and to my meager little assortment of guns. I responded, "We have more than one son". She said, "Oh, you're right".
Most logical female I've ever known.
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358156hp
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Ah yes, America. The old country. I miss it so....
You think you miss it? Your in Nebraska, he is still stuck in Komifornia but is planning his escape as we speak.
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358156hp
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The narrow band of sanity.
You coasties just keep flying over. We'll wave as you go by.
You coasties just keep flying over. We'll wave as you go by.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
For all of you folks that live in the middle, the "fruits, nuts and flakes" only live one day of bicycling east of salt water. There are lots of nice folks that live between the coastal mountains and west of the Rockies; WA, OR, ID, MT, UT, NV,AZ, etc.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
From our perspective, the Rocky Mountains are in the liberal East, like Boulder and Denver.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
I've seen some beautiful shops in our search for property and whether the property comes with a shop or I build a shop, I'm going to end up with at least 600 sq ft for the machine shop and at least 200 for the reloading/gunsmithing and leather shop. Time to get a real estate agent looking around Rick and John's area for us. We've looked at just about everything that comes close to our needs within a 30 minute drive of the County seat.