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Rustic Dining Room Table, Version 1

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A friend texted one night if I had a saw that could cut 45 angles and if I could help him make a new table for his wife in their new home.  I offered to help and we went to the…

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Making a Reloading Bench for a Hornady Lock-n-Load Press

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I first started reloading using an old, rickety workbench.  Although it worked, to keep the press from bouncing around and spilling powder, I had to keep a firm grip on the front of it.  The best solution was to build…

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5 Gallon Bucket Thien Baffle Dust Collector

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My original dust collector was just an old shop vacuum.  The filter clogged regularly so I made a cyclone separator out of sheet metal and some old buckets.  This worked well enough except I didn’t engineer the lid for the…

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Hornady Lock n Load AP Primer Out Alarm

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After a reloading session and running out of primers several times, I decided to build an alarm for when the primer tube runs out.  Each time it happened, I missed the fact it was empty for a case or two and…

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