rfwobbly
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Thanks guys ! This thread is giving me some ideas. I have a 3-tier tool box that's standing empty in the garage right now.
Reorganizing the gun/reloading room and adding a rolling work bench.
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The craziness continues! I wandered down to my steel scrap pile this morning and pulled this beauty out. Many years ago I was given a bumper/winch mount from a Toyota pick up and I modified it to fit my Jeep TJ and it got well used on the trails in Hawaii. Various pieces have been hacked off the bumper over the years but I'm seeing sides for a riser for the L-N-L. 
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The craziness continues! I wandered down to my steel scrap pile this morning and pulled this beauty out. Many years ago I was given a bumper/winch mount from a Toyota pick up and I modified it to fit my Jeep TJ and it got well used on the trails in Hawaii. Various pieces have been hacked off the bumper over the years but I'm seeing sides for a riser for the L-N-L.
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OP, looks like a good plan! After several years of adding to my bench clutter with more presses and other equipment, I finally decided to take jmorris's advice to get a 3D printer and make more collators. More Clutter, but more versatile.
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@GW Staar, that's awesome. Are you copying a design for the collators or are they your designs? Either way it's great to see your setup and what you're doing. I wish I had a 3D printer. I had a good one at work for 5+ years that I used for personal projects all the time but now I'd need to buy one. If I leave my current job and go to full-time consulting I'll probably do that.
Just to throw a curve here.
You would need to buy casters for this anyway, so buy some lower/shorter casters, put them on the tool box, and put the taller casters from the tool box onto the 8x2
Doing that will allow the nesting @jmorris mentioned.
just sayin'
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I had a choice......I could buy a Dillon case feeder and the Mr. Bullet feeder....or just spend one $500 for a big bed 3D printer and print as many as I want for about $40 a piece.....wasn't a hard choice once friends convinced me that even this old man could learn to print on such a printer. The learning curve is no worse than that of learning a new progressive press. And it's just as fun. Spools of plastic media are cheap and it's amazing what and how much you can print on on $15 to $20 spool.
Look in "Special Projects" "Making that bullet feeder" thread in Castboolits....I started somewhere about ....http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?354324-Making-that-Bullet-Collator/page35
I decided to make a rail system so I could slide the collators for use with more than one press..... I called in a favor to my now favorite nephew (an underwater welder in early retirement).
Pictures show one sliding support unused, but it's now got a printed case collator mounted (last picture).....very pleased with how it's turning out. One plus is that it's mounted to my bench in only one place and that mount does double duty with a Video Powder Cop.
My first picture is before the printer and before the sliding rail system:
Added the Rail then the first bullet collator, designed by Ammo Mike, customized by me.
Next picture shows it connected to the Pro Chucker Seven doing .223 caliber
Then sliding it down the rail, I connected to the APP.
This week I'm in process, having printed a bigger collator designed by TylerR to connect a case collator along with the smaller bullet collator again tor .223.
Last picture in my first post shows the big collator for cases during printing...
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@GW Staar, I'll check it out ... thanks.
I didn't make as much progress this weekend as I would have liked but I have the L-N-L clamped to the basic riser for a test fit and will finish it tomorrow. I need to add two flanges to the sides for bolting to the table as well as a support for two bins for bullets and loaded rounds. Also, a couple of pieces of steel to brace the whole thing but I like where it's heading and it's always a good feeling to make something useful out of scrap.
I didn't make as much progress this weekend as I would have liked but I have the L-N-L clamped to the basic riser for a test fit and will finish it tomorrow. I need to add two flanges to the sides for bolting to the table as well as a support for two bins for bullets and loaded rounds. Also, a couple of pieces of steel to brace the whole thing but I like where it's heading and it's always a good feeling to make something useful out of scrap.
I finished the L-N-L riser today and I'm very pleased with how it turned out. It took longer than I expected to figure out a bolt on bracket to hold the two red bins for bullets and loaded rounds but I got it done and the final product is shown below. I think it's better than anything I could buy (definitely a lot stronger) and a lot cheaper since I made it all from scrap metal. The only problem is that it kind of makes the Jeep tire carrier riser look like a turd! Oh well, function over form I suppose. With the three progressive presses where they are I have plenty of room to work with each of them, and managed to free up a 32"x24" section of the bench to the left of the presses. This is perfect as a staging area for totes that I pull off the rack rather than putting them on the floor.
Now onto finishing up organizing everything. I might even have an excess of storage capacity which would be a first for me. I should be able to post some photos of the finished room in a few days. Thanks for following along.
Now onto finishing up organizing everything. I might even have an excess of storage capacity which would be a first for me. I should be able to post some photos of the finished room in a few days. Thanks for following along.
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Nicely done. Well built. I Like recycling stuff. There is a reason we don't throw things away.
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Awesome! Looks like it was made for it.
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Sharing firearms related projects on this forum is definitely a motivating factor when it's 20F in the garage and my hands are numb from holding an angle grinder for a few hours.
It was made for it
... but I know what you mean, and thanks!
Nature Boy said:
It was made for it
... but I know what you mean, and thanks!
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jmorris said:
With 3/16" plate for the sides and gussets and a 1/2" plate for the top there's zero wobble.
Admittedly it's way overbuilt for what it is but I tend to subscribe to the Isambard Kingdom Brunel approach to engineering, particularly when it comes to things that don't have to move.Blue68f100 said:
Thanks ... and I still have a bunch of material left over from that bumper for other projects. Thank goodness I have a plasma cutter.
I know I'm going to modify the RCBS riser since I simply don't like the look of it anymore. In terms of function it's as solid as a rock and works well, but if I can make it more aesthetically appealing then I should ... and I will.
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That is what I strted with still have it ... Works great
This should be it for a while for this thread since I've got most things where I want them. There are still a few things to figure out such as what to do with all of the drawers in the Husky workbench, bring in numerous heavy ammo cans full of bullets that have been sitting in the garage for a few years, and more. I got lucky (or perhaps it was intentional) six years ago when I made the lower shelf for the bench that has the Redding single stage press on it. The height is perfect for ammo cans to slide underneath so I'll be putting a whole bunch under there this weekend. I need to move the security camera too but that's a 2 minute job.
Starting on the right and going around the room anticlockwise this is where I'm at. I built that steel-framed computer desk.
Starting on the right and going around the room anticlockwise this is where I'm at. I built that steel-framed computer desk.
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All good things come to an end . One of my friends that helped me move the 200lb Husky toolbox into the house a few weeks back came over to shoot today and he just about fell over when he saw the gunroom. It was in a state of semi-chaos the last time he saw it and he was impressed to put it mildly. I think I'll design a "gunroom" sign to hang over the door and cut it out of 1/4" steel plate or similar.
. One of my friends that helped me move the 200lb Husky toolbox into the house a few weeks back came over to shoot today and he just about fell over when he saw the gunroom. It was in a state of semi-chaos the last time he saw it and he was impressed to put it mildly. I think I'll design a "gunroom" sign to hang over the door and cut it out of 1/4" steel plate or similar.- Status
