Posting an updated picture of my bench.
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Posting an updated picture of my bench.
Last edited by novalty; 10-11-2012 at 09:53 AM.
Nice clean organized bench there novalty. I can't stand when mine gets all cluttered up.
Thanks! I had to add another bench in my basement to unclutter mine. Now I have a separate one for my casting & tumbling equipment, plus a spot to clean my guns.Originally Posted by mxjunky78
My little "man cave" located in the back yard.
Dont ask how I got these round burn mark on it.............
Z....do you have heat in your mancave during the winter months? What about those round burn marks?
lol I can help on the Burn Marks dauntlessdave. That is from Lead Ingots that were too hot when set on the bench.
If one sits in thundering quiet the soul dies slow instead of yell to the heavens for all to hear and behold the righteous and upstanding and ones of which should be held with tales of woe. By C.A.S. <--- Thats Me lol.
Lol! No, no heat for me. I got a stash ready for the winter and got a lee hand press so I can do my thing inside the house.
Round marks are from my muffin tin that I set on the bench during my 1st smelt. Never crossed my mind that this hot lead would be more like hawt, dang hawt. 1st indication of the mistake was a mighty cloud of smoke........ LFMF.
A scrap of sheet rock (gypsum board, drywall, whatever you call it) makes an excellent heat sink for cooling ingot moulds.
Gear
Actually, gypsum is more of an insulator than a conductor of heat. That is why it is used in the fireproofing of safes. A heat sink should be a conductor of heat.
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Gee Doc you may have more tools than I do.
I added 3 sets of dies and another mold today too.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
My bench when just built in 2007
My bench in Oct, 2012
Load or park a car
My wife breaks out in hives everytime she goes in the gargage. I didn't know it would be that easy to keep her out of my hair!
Also why it was developed for interior walls in houses. If you have a wooden bench top, a piece of sheetrock will keep your ingot moulds from scorching it, which was my point to the poster with scorched circles on his bench. Yes, it is an insulator and not a sink, I used the wrong term. One would not want a sink under their ingot moulds unless they had a way to dissipate the heat safely that was being absorbed by the sink. A thick copper plate almost submerged in a flowing cold water bath would do it.
Gear
Geez Doc Stihl........you got more stuff than most shops in this area.
Jaysouth.........doesn't take long for the clutter to appear does it? Same happens to my benches unless I'm going to take a picture and then it mysteriously disappears until after the picture is taken. Kind of like the way my wife cleans our house now and again!
Well done, sir, very well done. Amazing to see what can be done with that amount of cubic footage.Well today the final pieces arrived, case feeder and plastic roller handle. It required some rebuilding of the shelves but I think this will work out.
Update since the move, smaller place but it is working out a O.K with most of the children on there own now It was time to downsize a little.
As I was told when I was a child; your elders will make you smarter if you listen. Then when you are older your elders will teach you WISDOM.
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Nice setup there 300WM. Once you've established your equipment and habits and put it all together a few times it's pretty easy to get things set up and organized the way you want.
Gear
I am humbled. I have a metal sawhorse with a 2x4 top and a lee breech lock challenger bolted to one end with my Lee loadmaster bolted to the other end. My range box and a sandbag across the middle of the legs makes it rock solid and I just sit on whichever end of it or rotate it to my reloading "desk" if I am loading rifle. Right now the pistol end is by the desk...the loadmaster end. The whole thing is in my music studio...lol. I'm such a hack.
God Bless!
Ron
Last edited by ronbo40s&w; 11-03-2012 at 02:21 PM.
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