Too good looking to use. Shows lot's of forethought and planning.
Too good looking to use. Shows lot's of forethought and planning.
Information not shared. is wasted.
Thank you guys! I didn't expect it to look this good when I started! LOL!
Looks great. You ran into the same problem I did w/ the perimeter trim. I left it off the second bench I built. It doesn't look as pretty but it's more functional. Of course it's all a moot point now because I switched to using Inline Fabrication mounts.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms *shall not be infringed*.
"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson
"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny."
- Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789
Last edited by 3jimbo3; 11-15-2016 at 08:49 PM.
What if..... you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?
Attachment 180792
THAT SHOWS TALENT... I would hate to drill and Mount a press on something that pretty...
............(Lông Trắng)............
(si vis pacem, para bellum)
Thank you so much for the compliments guys! It means allot!
They sure are, I picked those up at a junk yard. They were going to crush them, I think I have $20 in all three of those.
Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
What if..... you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?
Dthunter I like the way you inset the sizer and press into your table. I did the same thing but further into the table so the front edge of the sizer body is behind the plane of the front edge of the table. I did that in hopes of loosing less componants onto the floor.
3jimbo3...I noticed your Pb stacked along the backside of the casting area...do you have cripples under the ledger in the rear of the bench that distribute that weight to the floor below?
Our Pb stashes tend to get larger and heavier with collection and time and I'd expect to see that Pb pile widening and gaining height...along with weight...I'd hate to see a thread you start about it letting go right in the middle of a casting session with a pot-O-Pb going everywhere!
Nice shop though...
a m e r i c a n p r a v d a
Be a Patriot . . . expose their lies!
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” G. Orwell
Yes I braced it with with 2 x 4's and the ledger is lag bolted to the wall. I am working on a metal rack for the heavy stuff, but unfortunately I'm not a lottery winner so I have to keep coming to work and that takes away from play time. When it's all said and done, there will be a wall running at the end of the casting bench with the metal rack bolted to that wall and the floor. Everything will be insulated very well and climate controlled. Total size will be 10' x 24' with a total square footage of 240'. I know the rule is when you think it's big enough....double it! I have more room to expand in the future if I need to.
I will update the progress as it comes along...
What if..... you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?
Though not a great as the recent submissions here is my modest in process loading bench project. Having been lambasted on my construction methods I completed the light duty side of the hobby room work as described in my previous post. More or less the final version is on page 3 of this string. The cabinet on the floor was mounted to the wall centered on the workbench and a shelf added to the left side for books, Mama couldn’t be any happier.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...ness-for-press
Once done there I was able to turn my attention to “my” side of the room. Although I had a series of starts and stops, things have been progressing nicely over the last few weeks, the overall construction method remains the same previously described in depth in my other post. Clearly visible are the rooms heating source, my major constraint, the baseboard registers that cannot be blocked. The glued and screwed triangle braces and wall cleats are still the prime method for securing the work surface to the wall into the studs behind the latt and plaster walls. The two far end braces were modified, the left shortened in height to clear the outlet and on the right a steel plate countersunk into the back from the top screw in the brace to add a 4th screw for reinforcement since I didn’t know where the press would end up at that point. After cutting out the pieces the first layer was temporarily screwed down to determine the best location for the press along the right side. The work surface is 5 ½ ft long 2 ft wide and the short L is 23 in long and 18 in deep to be the same depth as the wife’s bench. The short leg front and corner locations turned out to be unusable to get a good handle swing for my reloading process flow (I’m definitely low volume) and the side location was selected to maintain maximum work space for the remainder of the bench. Once the press location was selected a piece of the steel plate was sunk into the first layer for reinforcement to eliminate any flex. I also added a pair of L brackets to the press side brace to further strengthen this area. The first layer of ¾ plywood and reinforcing plate was glued and screwed to the braces and cleats, then the top layer was glued and screwed from underneath to give me a 1 ½ total benchtop thickness. After adding the cap to hide the end grain of the plywood, and several coats of varnish the last action from the weekend was to add the dedicated shelf for the scale and trickler to get them up off the bench and to eye level when seated.
Love, love , love the radiused corners. Beautiful work.
Bob
metric, very nice work and looks to fit the space well. Mine also is not as defined as some here though I'll take function over form for a workspace.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |