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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: alfsauve on February 17, 2018, 11:16:30 AM
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So I managed, just under 40 hours this week. Even with supporting an FCA fundraiser banquet featuring UGA Kirby Smart last night.
Pretty much have finished my new work bench.
Was able to get rid of 2 6' tables, one 36"w x 6' shelf unit and a 6' wide vanity cabinet. My work room is looking nice.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Gun-General/i-RLWnq9v/0/cb4ae034/XL/20180217_112922-XL.jpg)
I've always had my reloader at table height, ~27", and reloaded using a chair height stool. This is much higher and of course I'm using a higher stool. I know a lot of people reload standing up, but I've always done it seated. Will have to get a more appropriate stool, especially if Miss Kitty finds me using her good one. All but 2 of the drawers are full and labeled. I'm really liking this.
There will always be little things to improve. Threw away my reloading counter and am working on a simpler version. The Hornday counter was too expensive for what it gave me. Right now I've got a $12 Chinese counter with "pause" and "reset" switches built in and am experimenting with magnetic switches as opposed to mechanical micro-switches.
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I have a similar cabinet. Did you drill thru the maple top and the cabinet sheet metal to mount your vice?
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I did drill through them both for the viSe and the press. The powder measures are 1" lag screws.
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Thanks.
I’m going to laser cut an oversized plate to spread the load across a greater area under the cabinet sheet metal and do the same. My top drawer is much shallower but it’ll work ok.
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I opted for this model, 66" wide, because of the large amount of storage. The next size up actually has less storage.
I did have to mount the ram of the press an inch away from the edge because there's no overhang. I've run 600 rounds of 9mm through the resized die already and it feels real solid.
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I did drill through them both for the viSe and the press. The powder measures are 1" lag screws.
You tell him ALF. :) I don't have any reloading gear but I have a decent size vise on one corner of my bench. I made my workbench from a door out of a mobile home I lived in a long time ago. It's a hollow core door that I somehow put a hole through with a hammer. That's a convenient spot for knocking out pins and doing other work that involves something sticking out the back of an object. I used to have things hanging over the edge half unsupported to do those jobs. It's held up well for 27 years and I haven't needed the blueprints I have for a better bench. I have some old wood trim nailed to the back edge of the bench so nothing can roll off the back. I made a shelf front to back and side to side halfway up out of particle board. I didn't buy much else to make the bench. If I need more space I can use the tables I picked up from other peoples trash.
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Reinforcing my bench is for more than just the vise.
I’m probably the only guy on the forum with access to a 4kW, CO2 laser and the knowhow to use it!
Might as well... [emoji4]
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Yes, vise...
My vices are all worn out!
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I enjoy my vices much more than my vises.
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Reinforcing my bench is for more than just the vise.
I’m probably the only guy on the forum with access to a 4kW, CO2 laser and the knowhow to use it!
Might as well... [emoji4]
4kW? You're talking input supply? I worked with a 100W output CO2 and I can't imagine what a 4kW would be like. A 100 Watter was 12' long 3' high and wide. Required water cooling. It would bore through solid concrete and steel. I think it drew about 3kW 3phase. It was in the shop for a tune up from NASA. They used it to remotely ignite fires in atmospheric test chambers to study their effect without having an igniter contaminate the chamber.
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4000 watt output!
Cuts 3/4 Steel plate within .010” tolerance. Cuts thin sheet at lightning speed within .002” accuracy.
Bed is about 78 x 158.
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Forget about lasers. I want something I can carry, like a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. 8)
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Forget about lasers. I want something I can carry, like a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. 8)
Yea, that machine is about 20’ x 50’ with both beds, the laser cabinet, beam axis gantry and ventilation system! A bit hard to conceal!
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Yea, that machine is about 20’ x 50’ with both beds, the laser cabinet, beam axis gantry and ventilation system! A bit hard to conceal!
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That would be way too big for me to handle. But this . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWil6inlPIE
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Yea, that machine is about 20’ x 50’ with both beds, the laser cabinet, beam axis gantry and ventilation system! A bit hard to conceal!
That's what I would expect for that level of power. Wow.
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Changed the Subject.
About finished with the gun room. Got the right size tubing from a beer making supply place. 5/16"id isn't at the local big box stores. Of course, got some beer while I was there.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Gun-General/i-x247zCn/0/2211014c/L/20180309_152146-L.jpg)
Got a new chair in. Really like this. Bought one, table height, for my lighting director at work because he busted the old one. It's called a medical stool. I got it from Global Industries for $78. It doesn't have any arms but a nice back support. The one at work is for table height and mine is counter height. Actually they're the same, except the counter height comes with the foot ring. Also I found you can replace the castors with "feet". They're call Chair Glides. But its is a misnomer, they're meant to keep a chair in place not move it around. A place called the Supplies Guys has them.
https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/office/stools/vinyl/caressoft-medical-drafting-stool-with-back-cushion-black (https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/office/stools/vinyl/caressoft-medical-drafting-stool-with-back-cushion-black)
Now to tackle the garage.
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Looks good Alf. I'm rounding up ideas, because in a couple months I'll be putting together a new set up. Took long enough to set this one up, and I quickly knew a few things I want changed. I'm sure the new one will be the same :-\
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Alf... a little warning about sitting down... I got a case of tendonitis so bad from sitting while reloading, I almost had to quit shooting... get a roller handle at least
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The press handle looks like it's too far down from the seat of the chair. I'm guessing the position is good for the first half of the stroke and will give you more power there.
Furniture glides make it much easy to move furniture around. If you don't have casters or glides on your chair you'll feel the difference as soon as you try to drag it across the room. It sucks trying to move a bed by yourself without glides on it. One of mine came off.
On the subject of lasers, the army has a 60-kilowatt laser weapon mounted on an armored truck. That's the most powerful laser I know of that can easily be moved from place to place.
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Loading bench, vise, laser, chair, tubing, chair, tendonitis, furniture glides, ...
DAMN!!! You guys have ADD bad!
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What do you mean, AD... Oh look a new gun.
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Sometimes I feel like Winnie the Poo, a bear of slow wit.
One thing bugging me has been where to put my cleaning cloths(rags) when I'm not using them. So far they've just been draped over the big handle at the right end of the bench. But they fall off eaisly. I went to HD last night for something else, but while there thought, "Oh, I'll put grommets in one corner of each rag and use hooks to hang them on the bar." All of which I have at home anyway.
BUT THEN the light bulb off. BOOM. FIREWORKS.
Why not sew a magnet in one corner of each rag? DUH. No grommet or hook to catch on things or scratch things. I can literally throw them anywhere around the work cabinet. Two minutes at the sewing machine and voila.
OKAY. OKAY. So the rest of the world knew this was a great idea several decades ago. As I said, a bear of slow wit.
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Wait, you have clean rags? You must not be working in your shop much.
I go the thru about 300# a month ( no joke, employees use them them up, but when it was just me 10 pounds would last for months) funny how that works, when it's your dime....