Aieeee!!! This is progress?

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The reloading table as it sits today. Just damn. Still trying to bring order to the chaos but I am still shuffling stuff between locations in three counties. So if y'all wonder why some projects have been left hanging, this is why. Madness!

At least some of the storage is beginning to come together.:

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Maybe after hunting season is over, the reloading can commence again. It's looking like we have a new property on which to hunt, but it's rather farther away.

Simply inspirational. I am in the same water craft looking for a place to start without fear of being inendated by falling debris. Looking Good!

The worst part is sorting through the paper. Lots of important drawings and notes scribbled on the back of guff. But I do utilize the recyclining bins quite a bit. Time, space and shelving. Need more of each.

But there's a monster computer project I've been both avoiding and dumping lots of time into as well lately. Was doing it in small chunks, but it needs a lots of big time blocks now...

I thought my bench was bad. Feel much better now.

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Originally Posted by Gun Surfer

I thought my bench was bad. Feel much better now.

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Typical event. It's not being used for it's intended purpose, so it becomes a "catch all". The presses haven't yet been bolted down (They're mounted on a separate plank and were recently moved from another table. The inspection light actually is keeping the works from falling off the new table.) The stupid thing is that this table was cleared off not three weeks ago! Most of the junk on top is just there on it's way to other locations.

The ammo can method is quite ingeious. Please keep us posted I need motivation.

My opinion is that it resembles a form of high art. T´would be sacrilege to disturb even the minutest detail. Some years ago a cleaner in an art gallery over here removed a mound of rancid butter from the floor .... and many thousands of Euros (it had been one of the exhibits).

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Originally Posted by HOOKED ON HISTORY

The ammo can method is quite ingeious. Please keep us posted I need motivation.

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I like ammo cans for many different storage uses. Providing that I actually label them as to the contents! They stack well, won't burst open when dropped, have easily removable lids (so don't label them on top!), are easy to carry, and have the little bail on the front for pulling of the shelf. Not so cheap anymore, but they will last a lifetime +! (I have a couple dating from WWII that were tool boxes that my father and uncle used. They still work fine, but the hinge is different on the old cans and don't stay closed as well, unless you use a grenade pin, cotter pin or old nail throught the "lock".)

In actual fact, shelving is my biggest constraint right now. Those shelving units seen above were retired from our machine shop when the fixturing that was stored on them went away. Very stout units! Far better than what's commonly available in retail stores. Considering that some of those ammo cans are essentially lead bricks, weight adds up quickly! Whatever you do, don't get particle board shelves! They may not fail immediately, but they creep and sag over time. Eventually they're useless. Concrete block and planks can work well but they aren't pretty, space efficient, nor idiot proof.

On another front, we did get the lathe and drill press operational.

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And the "#2" BT pallet jack. #1 Pallet jack still works even if it is a little leaky.

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New guts (and fresh paint just for funsies)!


So, probably late October or so the next phase of heavy equipment moving will begin. Would do it sooner, but there's some major expenditures coming up, and cash will be needed elsewhere. Dadgummed property tax is over $4500...but that's just another minor delay.

Aaaaand, I'm derusting, painting and getting new gaskets for the old deep freeze. It's older than I am. Somehow it got unplugged, so it seemed like a good time to freshen it up. Took three + days after emptying it for it to warm up altogether! Amazing. I don't know how long it was unplugged before I noticed, but there weren't huge losses.

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You reckon this gasket has served long enough?

So, the reloading room project just has just taken a back seat to some other, more pressing, projects. Just think, it's getting on toward hunting season. Something else to devour time. Yeehaw!

:madsmile:After sorting out my fathers garage after he passed I eventually found a couple of work benches out there. I just moved a couple hundred of his projects and there they were. The worst were drill bits. I don't beelive the man ever saw a drill bit he didn't adopt I gave them away by the coffee can full and that was after i put togeather full sets for my brother and nephew a few friends and myself. Anyway I thank you as I feel much better about my own benches.:madsmile:

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Originally Posted by villiers

My opinion is that it resembles a form of high art. T´would be sacrilege to disturb even the minutest detail.

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Too late! About a third of the table's been cleared off as of this morning. And the freezer has has another phosphoric acid treatment on the lid. But "many thousands of Euros" have been run through those presses, and they need to do more.

Also moved a bunch of those evil particle board shelving units from my sister's garage yesterday and have them in pieces at the shop now- Just in time, too, as the rain has started!. May utilize them for light duty, or replace the shelves with plywood. The supports are steel at any rate. That's how it happens that I'm online now. Still no computer at the house.