Let's see where you do your casting ? ?

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Either you took a panorama or your walls are way outta square.

Welcome to the site.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Howdy.

I like the way the front of the table and the safe kind of matches the flooring's curvature. Also, must have been quite tricky laying that flooring.

He's deceased, but my best friend, reloading mentor, and gun buying enabler lived down in Roswell.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
piece of cake down there.
just throw the strips in a tub of water and wait for july, you can bend them around like a wagon wheel without any tools at that point.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Yeah. I was thinking if I had neighbors like that I'd run an extension cord and set up a casting table by their side fence.
 

burbank.jung

Active Member
Yeah. I was thinking if I had neighbors like that I'd run an extension cord and set up a casting table by their side fence.
I live in the SF Bay Area. They'd report me for lead fume exposure if they found out, even though I'm melting ingots only on a windy day. Besides, almost everyone is wearing masks!
 

L Ross

Well-Known Member
All right dang it, since you asked nice, here are three shots, (insert pun), of the casting shack here at the Thorn Hollow Ballistic Research Facility. One shows the casting bench, one shows a window I can shoot out of to 210 yards whilst waiting for the lead to reach liquilibrium, and a rifle rack next to said window with my B-14 Bergara in it. Just got my first Covid shot this morning and with the barrel extension and scope on it the Bergara weighs 11 3/4 lbs. Arm hurts to get into a hip rest position, but once there I was comfortable. While waiting for the refill to remelt I shot at the 80 IMG_3784.jpgIMG_3785.jpgIMG_3786.jpgyard prairie dogs and went 9 for 10 after a run of 8 in a row. Used an 11th round to clean up that last target. Boy does that mess ever look better in a photo than it does in real life.
 

popper

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Next reloading room (shelf under the garage work bench) cleanup chore. Decided to store bullets in ice cream jugs by gun. Due to limited powder and primers, not much more experimentation. Alloy coded by PC color, when loading, pick the color - they are sized per gun. Smaller containers now have loaded ammo, with notated piece of tape for the load. Left-overs go into the empty pile. Recycle the oddball stuff in the pot.
 
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BudHyett

Active Member
I'll start things off.................

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The casting table is on four casters.
It rolls outside and is plugged in.
When finished casting and the pot is cool, the
table is rolled back in my basement.

Ben
I've build a separate shop for reloading and casting. This was to isolate and insulate my work from phone calls and other intrusions. I had a shop, but too narrow for two people to work in. The shop is 10 feet X 14 feet, with benches on all sides. The next shop will be 8 feet X 16 feet with benches on one side and across the back with storage on the other side.
 
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Rockydoc

Well-Known Member
I'll start things off.................

bl6ngbf.jpg


The casting table is on four casters.
It rolls outside and is plugged in.
When finished casting and the pot is cool, the
table is rolled back in my basement.

Ben
Ben, I notice you always present your cast bullets in those neat wooden boxes like the one in the picture above. Do you make those yourself?

What is the little post on the back left corner of your table with what looks like wire spiraled around it?

Rocky