I’ve been fairly quiet today since I’ve been away from the computer most of the day.
The garage has been bugging me lately. Junk has been piling up, hard to get around, and I can’t do things in there. Biggest thing? All that reloading equipment from exodus still sitting there, unused. It’s been getting to me. I took the Speer Reloading manual into the house a few weeks ago and have been reading it. And I think with hunting season upon me I have lofty dreams of my own hunting load. So… before I went to bed last night I decided I was going to revamp the garage.
Off to Home Depot. Buying wood screws, brackets, wood, sundry other things. I also picked up a new Makita cordless drill and circular saw. Some years ago I had a Porter-Cable cordless drill but when it died a couple years back and I couldn’t get replacement batteries I opted to get a corded drill. I made the wrong decision to save a little money and the drill I got lacked important things like a brake and a clutch. So while I was happy with the corded drill the rest of the drill sucked. So the Makita was a great purchase and is very cool, but the battery didn’t seem to last very long. Supposedly it’s a fast recharge tho, but when I put the battery on the charger it flashed the “bad battery” lights at me. Hrm. Not good. I’ll contact Makita in the morning. Never owned a circular saw, but it’s one of those things that the past some whiles I’ve had enough times when it would have been nice if I had one (always managed to get by), so I figured now was as good a time as any to finally buy one.
My ceilings are high so I put the shelves up high all around the perimeter of the garage interior. Just simple brackets, plywood, and wood screws. I was then able to store all the boxes of holiday decorations, coolers, and various other things up high. Threw away a bunch of crap, rearranged a bunch of stuff, and then I was able to give the reloading table a proper home. Ahhhh… 🙂
The garage looks good. Motorcycle looks happy in there (tho it’d look happier out on the road of course). There’s room to move, better organization, and again… a place to reload. That’s the important thing. 🙂
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I’m not 100% sure, but I’m reasonably sure that I would do just about anything for a garage and a reloading setup…
I miss my garage, because my 1963 Mercury sits back home in my father’s shop, waiting for me to have a place to finish its restoration. Second, I would love to have a place to sit and reload the 2000 pieces of once fired .38 brass I have sitting around.
One of these days…Looks like the next place will at least have a larger storage closet that a bench could be set up in.
So, what’s next handgun loads? .38 is stupid easy to reload and could be really worth your time, since reloading it would turn the cost to around $8/50 instead of $16-20/50.
-Rob
When I bought all the reloading stuff off exodus it came with dies and other materials for .223 Rem, .308 Win, .45 ACP, 9mm Luger. So I need to pick up stuff for .38, but I intend to as yes, ANY reloading will be cheaper than buying factory.
Hm. Perhaps it is better that Better Half and I are without a house at the moment… half of those things are inapplicable to an apartment, and the other half keep me busy enough as it is.
That said, someplace to set up some reloading equipment that I do not have would just be great.
The right home will come eventually. I keep up with your saga via your blog and man… there’s just something better in store for you. 🙂
And then you’ll have all this additional room… so, you’ll need to get stuff to fill all that empty space. Reloading equipment would make a fine addition. 🙂
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