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Hey, that looks like a nice setup for hobby work. I agree that if you're building furniture it might not be entirely sturdy enough. I like the drawers - you can never have enough storage. Back in my early rocket career, I worked on an old wooden desk of my mom's (but knew the boundaries - i.e., no drilling holes into it or mounting a vise on the edge! ). By "reloading" do you mean reloadable rocket motors or firearm ammo? Getting inspired to finally turn that corner of the basement into a workshop! ~Lawrence
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I use the same bench for building rockets, R/C aircraft, AND reloading AMMO.
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As for a workbench, I started out with a solid oak desk I got at a sale my local community college was having.
The thing weighs a freaking ton! The top is 34" by 60". A BIG desk. The bad part was it was painted with a thick coat of battleship gray. I decided to strip it but when I stripped all the gray paint off the top I found out something disturbing about the previous owner. He was a heavy smoker! The edges of the top is covered in cigarette burns. Maybe the guy wasn't a heavy smoker, he just liked to light them and let them burn out on the edge of the desk. Oh, well, it was only $5.00.
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Here's something I've been working on over the past several days as the busy life of a retired person permits.
The adjustable rocket cradle is large enough to support my smallest to largest high power birds. Would easily support mid power and some low power birds as well. The rocket in the second picture is a Polecat Aerospace Goblin 5.5 which puts the capacity into perspective. The nice thing is that this rig is easily disassembled for storage or stashing in the trunk for transport to and from the range. Now if only I can interest Tim Van Milligan in the product
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That's pretty slick, Kit! Send him an email with some pics. You might be pleasantly surprised. |
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After perusing your website, it occurs to me that you could make a supersized version of this to store your cabors.
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Nice work! I use something very similar tho smaller for my LPR builds. It is built from foamboard and a single length of aluminium tube. The foamboard is a sliding friction fit on the tube. Edit: crappy photo attached Last edited by /// : 05-30-2015 at 09:50 AM. |
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See? Great minds think alike! Well done, sir. Well done.
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It's very "ghetto", but I saved the top rack out of our old dishwasher, and use that for a paint/drying rack. It's large enough to be stable while holding a Leviathan, and can hold 13mm rockets securely.
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