For Those into CAS...Here's my finished Gun Cart

[rbertalotto]

I wrote a bit of an article on my web site:

http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/cowboy-action-shooting-gun-cart.html

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Lots more pictures in the article.

Let me know what you think..........Thanks

[Reload3006]

Very nice!! I have worked with metal all my adult life and can probably make anything you can imagine out of metal. But give me a piece of wood and I can show you an abortion really fast ... GREAT JOB!!!!

[rbertalotto]

THANKS!

I started out with wood at 11 years old. My father bought me a small table saw, an electric drill and a saber saw. I proceeded to cut the tip of my finger off with the table saw!

I owned a cabinet shop and built wooden sailboats and cedar strip canoes for many years. About 20 years ago I got sick of the sawdust and sold everything and bought a metal lathe and a milling machine and thousands of dollars worth of tooling along with an OA welding setup and a Mig and a TIG machine.

I like working metal far better than wood.

This whole gun cart was built with an $88 Home Depot table saw that when turned on sounds like the dogs of hell crying! I also had a belt sander and my milling machine that I forced into a bit of woodworking. (I'm not sure it will ever speak to me again......Oh the shame!) Most everything else was fabricated by hand with a Japanese back saw and a small wooden block plane ( a few thing salvaged from my time with wood)

I still hate the sawdust!

[geargnasher]

Pretty neat little cart. I've seen all sorts of carts, ranging from pine coffins to scale models of covered wagons, some of the SASS folks really get into their gear.

Sawdust not so bad to me, but I draw the line at MDF. Nowdays even consumer-grade woodworking power tools have dust collection ports and a good Shop-Vac tames most of it.

I've been cleaning out my metal working shop and moving everything over to the new shop so I can convert the old one to a reloading/casting/gun room, ten years of chop saw and plasma torch dust has piled behind the workbenches and found its way into all sorts of nooks, crannies, and equipment, in a word it's an unbelievable MESS. You hate sawdust, I hate metal dust, and aside from a good plasma pit under a cutting grate I haven't figgered a way to contain the metal/abrasive dust except dedicate a fairly tight room to it and wear a premium particle mask.

Gear

[Reload3006]

grinding and sanding any material makes one hell of a mess. Milling and turning not so bad but you would still be amazed at all the places those chips can find to hide.

[geargnasher]

When I was studying engineering in college one of our classes took a plant tour of a gear and sprocket factory in Arlington, TX. Other than the mesmerizing action of the gear hobs and witnessing induction hardening in person the thing that left a real impression on me was the $2 million machine that mashed all the debitage into neat little pucks for recycling. The chips and shavings burn up rather than melt in a blast furnace, but the pucks melt down nicely, plus the residual cutting fluids are drained, cleaned, and recycled.

Gear

[rbertalotto]

Seems I didn't read the CAS rules completely. Firearms need to be stored and transported with actions open. Can't do that with the covers closed. So I modified the hinges to make the covers removable.

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Solved that problem!

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[dragonrider]

Very nice work Roy.