George P
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Exactly what I was wondering about; why worry about a stain when you'll be coating it later on? Be worried about any staining THEN.
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bullseye308
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Lowes or Home Depot for linoleum remnant.
Harbor freight for canvas drop cloth, tarp, or roll of plastic sheeting.
Office store for a ~4x4 plastic office chair underlay.
Many places for foam interlocking squares.
Old sheet or blanket.
Lowes or Home Depot for builders paper rolls.
Prime the area and seal the concrete for easy cleanup.
Harbor freight for canvas drop cloth, tarp, or roll of plastic sheeting.
Office store for a ~4x4 plastic office chair underlay.
Many places for foam interlocking squares.
Old sheet or blanket.
Lowes or Home Depot for builders paper rolls.
Prime the area and seal the concrete for easy cleanup.
Mine is on concrete basement floor & I vacuum it all the time using a dust buster type vacuum, never had a problem.
This dust buster picks up primers without a chance of setting them off.
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Based on my 4 year record of saying I am gonna do it, then not wanting to move everything, this is a workaround.
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Twas a quiet night in the house for several days.....I imagine.
....only a matter of time. As others have stated........
One item not mentioned, that, I have enjoyed (read that did not BREAK the item).........a little shag carpet at the workbench will prevent items from breakage if they hit the floor.
Some shag will prevent the spring or screw that you just dropped, from ending up.....well, who knows where. BUT, you will have to find the item in the shag.
Some shag will prevent the spring or screw that you just dropped, from ending up.....well, who knows where. BUT, you will have to find the item in the shag.
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I use a strip of left over carpet so my feet aren't so cold on the basement floor. Barefoot is the order of the day most days. I vacuum up spilled powder with my shop vac. Well, I would, but its easier to lift up the carpet and haul it outside to shake off. I don't spill too often.
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Maybe the "others" need to be more careful with their powders & primers.
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My reloading/gun/office room is a spare bedroom. It was carpet, recently redid the floor with LVP. Oh my gosh how nice it is. Cheap, super easy to lay, and super easy to clean. A couple boxes of that would make a nice easy to clean area, inexpensive, and not a permanent mod. Otherwise, the Rustoleum epoxy garage floor stuff you paint on. That's pretty low maintenance but some solvents (acetone for example) it doesn't tolerate.
I know of a few commercial loaders, chemical supplies companies, and wood working companies who are no more due to a fire caused by the result of combustible material accumulating and igniting on the floor due to coverings.
Do not use carpet, rugs, anything
Slick stripped floors which are frequently swept are what a reloader needs.
Do not use carpet, rugs, anything
Slick stripped floors which are frequently swept are what a reloader needs.
SWEPT is the key operating word.
People have offered their opinions. Two have provided examples of what happens when certain items are picked up by a vacuum cleaner (anything the moves air thru a confined space IS a vacuum cleaner).
Just because you don't agree that this cannot happen or has not occurred to you, does not mean you are correct.....means you have been lucky.
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I’ve popped a few that way myself.
If you really want to see guys hop, on the outdoor range at our sheriffs office every other lane is grass. The inmate trustees get a surprise when hitting a live round with the mower every once in a while
. Stay safe.
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Cheap gallon of paint and remove it when you are ready to coat with something nicer???
Lots of time you can get mismixed (wrong custom color) paint at Lowes/Home Depot cheap. ~$10
Lots of time you can get mismixed (wrong custom color) paint at Lowes/Home Depot cheap. ~$10
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peeplwtchr
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Thanks everyone. I got a 6x8 linoleum scrap from Home Depot for around $20. It even matches the concrete.
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Is it time to take down the Xmas tree yet ?
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That's the storage garage. Funny you should say that though, the kids and I thought it'd be funny to leave it up in the living room for 8 mos. last year, because the cat likes to climb it. Wife, not so much. But we had no visitors the whole time (Covid).
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Wives can be uncooperative spoil-sports at times.
oley55
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OP has already got his solution, but this is what I use: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Apache-Mil...Cast-Vinyl-Utility-Runner-By-the-Foot/3612682 The foam anti-fatigue runners are perfect for me. I do most all of my reloading activities while standing and as I age I seem to have developed the dropsies. I went with the foam right after I dropped my calipers and rendered them trash. I also find my coal remains constant even after a round is dropped.
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I have tried low pile carpet, a rubber mat and a soft mat with grid openings used at business counters and where clerks spend a lot of time.
Now I use nothing. Just the concrete floor of my garage. Everything I tried had drawbacks from hard to clean to tripping hazards. No more.
Now I use nothing. Just the concrete floor of my garage. Everything I tried had drawbacks from hard to clean to tripping hazards. No more.
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peeplwtchr
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Yeah I kicked the edge of it this morning. I used wide painters tape to stick the edges to the floor.
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