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Awesome! I just got my first 45. Love it so far!
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[QUOTE=Mark Daiute;3204573]Attachment 135896
Awesome! I just got my first 45. Love it so far!
I would take a picture of my bench, but my camera is lost on it someplace.....
If I ever see the top of my bench again maybe ill get a picture of it.
some pics of my hangout:
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I actually have a bench that has, in 39" width, both a progressive and a single-stage--and it's enough to work at easily. Here's the one side of my shop, showing the short bench:
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Now, in fairness, I also have shelving to the right, but there's JUST enough room on the right of the single-stage for me to put a small container, plastic lid, whatever, to hold bullets while I reload at that press. It isn't that this is the idea reloading setup, just that you can do an awful lot in the small space of 39 inches. It just happens to fit the space I have.
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You can see the shelving to the right of the single-stage press, and the shotshell reloader.
Here's the other side of the room, and let me note the bench is NOWHERE as clean today as it is in this pic:
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Finally, here's a setup I use for my powder drop; I took a piece of stair tread, bolted my LnL powder measure stand to it, and voila! Stable platform from which to work, but I also have some screw eyes on the back side of the tread, and I hang that tread from the joists above to get it out of the way when I'm not using it. I have two different powder measures so the LnL system allows me to quickly change from one to the other, and to remove either before I hang up the unit from the joists:
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The little funnel screwed to the front allows me to easily return a weighed powder drop to the casing into which I dropped it.
Here is my setup. Just got done putting a cubby shelf up in place of the akrobins. Haven't taken a picture yet.
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Then bench was made entirely of leftover scrap from other projects. The top is 3/4" MDF and does have some flex. With the Pro1000s they seem to run better with a little bouncing around so it works. After using it a few months I want to extend it about 6-10" deeper, I find myself running out of depth for scales, throwers, bullet boxes, etc.
This is ammo and brass storage, but I think I need to add another. Run out of bins and almost need one for ammo and one for reloading supplies.
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Made it, through all 90 pages! Great ideas here, some of which I will use on my table. I have just finished gluing laminate flooring on the top, which is a solid core door. In a couple of days I will see if my buddies will carry it outside and use a corner rounding bit and router on the top edges. I can't lift anything since prostate surgery about 10 days ago. Anyone rounded the edges of laminate flooring? I wonder if it chips?
Joe
It might--if I were you and I had any extra scrap I'd glue some to a piece of wood and find out.
If it does, you can finish the edge with a piece of molding instead of a round-off bit in a router and if you still want the rounded edge, finish that with the router.
Got the table edges routed this morning. Worked great, no chipping nice and smooth, looks good also.
I've been known to use that phrase before. :-)
Here ye are.
Joe
http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/a...psvd0cchjw.jpg
Man. I will trade you some magic beans for that toolbox.
Joe, looks like an honest to goodness Gerstner. The American made Gerstners are a joy to own. I got lucky about 8 years ago and scored a like new XL92 in cherry off one of the auction sites for $400.00. Now I just have to find the matching base for a price that doesn't make my stomach churn.
Gerstner! that was it. How can anyone who knows what a screwdriver is forget the name Gerstner. Beautiful box.
Smokey, if you want a Gerstner box at the price of a Kennedy, they will sell it to you flatpacked like an ikea bookcase. Some assembly required :)
I already have 4 Kennedy boxes, 2 chinese knock-offs of the Gerstner and my genuine cherry Gerstner. No more room for more machinist chests. It's not that I have too much stuff, it's that I have too little shop.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, it is a Gerstner, I bought it in the spring of 1965, when I first started in the machine shop. It's either cherry or mahogany. It was the display model and the only one in stock at the dealer way back when. I haven't seen the need to pay Gerstner to research it and send me a letter.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/b...-whisky-making
Quote:
Once the whisky is blended it is usually diluted to the final bottle concentration. The source of the water used at this point is considered of great importance and whisky distilleries will guard their water source carefully. Caramel is sometimes added at this point to adjust the colour of the whisky.
The whisky is generally diluted to a bottling strength of between 40% and 46%. Occasionally distillers will release a "cask strength" edition, which is either undiluted or diluted only a little and will usually have an alcohol content of around 60%.