101 Uses for the Kitchen Table

[Son]

Sounds off topic, but it isn't. We are all guilty of misusing the kitchen table... here's only one example...

The reloading bench, prepping cases...

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[fergs]

Oh! and you just happen to have your hook quillion bayonet lying on the table with it, tends to destract one from looking at the reloading equipment for a brief second. But nice setup.
Regards
Fergs

[trooper554877]

Son,
mate is your e-mail on?
cheers
Ned

[jmoore]

Which reminds me, the last batch of Winchester .303 British cases that I attempted to reload have such thin walled necks that they have defied all attempts to size them down far enough for the bullets to be restrained. FL or neck size dies, including Redding type "S" bushings. Yoiks!

Sorry to say our kitchen table is just a mail collector right now. No cool stuff upon it at all!

[Bindi2]

Sounds off topic, but it isn't. We are all guilty of misusing the kitchen table... here's only one example...

The reloading bench, prepping cases...

I have not used the kitchen table ever for any firearm prepping but then SHMBO prepping can be done there all the time.
Change SHMBO to SHTSMBO

[Son]

fergs- the hookie belongs to a mate- I've never owned one, but this one is living here for a few months in case the owner needs me to sell it for him.
Ned, checked email, reply sent...
jmoore- it's 7.62 brass (Win) which I am told is pretty good... This is only the second time I've reloaded 7.62.
Maybe try a case neck crimping die on your Win .303 cases. I don't have any experience crimping them, but if you have a lot of cases it might be worth a try.

...and Bindi... I'll have to get a new SWMBO and try it out... maybe do a range report as well...

[Bindi2]

fergs- the hookie belongs to a mate- I've never owned one, but this one is living here for a few months in case the owner needs me to sell it for him.
Ned, checked email, reply sent...
jmoore- it's 7.62 brass (Win) which I am told is pretty good... This is only the second time I've reloaded 7.62.
Maybe try a case neck crimping die on your Win .303 cases. I don't have any experience crimping them, but if you have a lot of cases it might be worth a try.

I use winny brass for commercial shooting 308 is very good. I also use a Lee neck crimp die for my .303 VERY GOOD

[Rumpelhardt]

I assembled a set of cylinder heads off a 400 cu. in. Pontiac engine out of a 70 GTO on my kitchen table once. The now x wife was not impressed.

[Peter Laidler]

My wife came home to find a gleaming set of Norton Commando carburettors ready to be assembled, spread out on her gleaming kitchen table. Mind you, I did spread a thin sheet of greasy old newspaper down first. She went ape-shxx of course. She went even MORE ape when I explained just why they were so clean. I'd just boiled them in chemicals in her big pot, on the cooker and rinsed them off in the kitchen sink.

They're just not as understanding as us blokes.

I tried to explain that these carbs weren't just ANY carbs, but NORTON carbs, but it still fell on deaf ears.....................

[fergs]

I hear that engine parts clean up really well in the dish washer too, i supose that would work for some types of hard to get at rifle parts aswell.
Regards
Fergs