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    NavCol, Have you seen this thread?

    https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...light=holumber

    Quote Originally Posted by Navigating Collapse View Post
    In my quest to get organised for 2010, my primary objective is to remove all the items that have been residing in my floor, or stuffed into a closet, and put together some semblance of structure.

    I'm also trying to get some ideas for how a proper maintenance station is organised. Something for working on, building, and maintaining your weapons.

    Anyone have a dedicated setup in their man cave for this sort of thing?

    Break out some pics!

    Right now, I've got the base of my bench, but I am wanting to put together a top. Most likely I'll be doing a plywood base for the tabletop. I'd like to put something over the plywood. If I could find diamond-plate plastic sheeting, I'd be in business. I'm open to suggestions on a decent tabletop material that isn't wood.

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    I have; however, I started this one since I'm not a reloader yet.

    Since I've been an apartment-dweller for my entire adult life, my firearm cleaning/maintenance experiences have taken place upon kitchen countertops, kitchen tables, and on the floor. It's sucked.

    Now that the Mrs. and I finally have a house with a garage, I'm attempting to move out of the "pile o' shit"/in-the-floor storage-style, and trying to not be forced to perform all my work on the floor.

    Since I'm eventually going to have a separate workbench for general stuff, my initial bout of curiosity was if anyone had a dedicated workbench for gun-related chores.

    Basically, I'm trying to set up this particular area for strictly cleaning/maintaining and possibly building in the future.

    On another note, I managed to find some adequate lighting for my arrangement at Wal*Mart for $14.00. I'll bust out a pic in a little while.

    ETA: Quickie Camera-Phone Pics:





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    Thumbs up

    Massive, massive thanks to my buddy Fire_Medic for hooking a brother up with, what was for me, an extremely hard-to-find item.

    I feel a bit like I'm putting the star on the tree, before I've even put up the tree, but, hell.

    The crown jewel:

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    Wow, you don't **** around. Nicely done. I just had a T8 ballast go down last week

    My workshop looks like a disaster area after this winter. I had converted it to a ski/snowboard waxing station and it never recovered.

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    Wow. I have that same EXACT vice!! It was my uncle's and he left it behind when he moved to Vegas. My dad let me have it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Navigating Collapse View Post
    Today was wicked productive. Did an MDF tabletop, since all the plywood I saw was bowed, warped, and just fugly/nasty. Painted the tabletop. Mounted the tabletop. Found some sort of "oops" piece of rubberised matting at Lowe's in the flooring section when I went to pick up the screws for the mounting. The mat is similiar to an Army sleeping pad, but more rubbery. In short, perfect as a base for working on long guns. It's textured, as well, so no rolling parts/pins/etc.

    Best of all my dad hooked me up with an old Craftsman vice, randomly at about 10 o'clock this evening. I was smoking a cigarette in his garage, and..."WTF is this in the corner, in a box of scrap wood"?



    Tomorrow's project is refinishing it. Tonight I wire brushed it and prepped it for painting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spamsammich View Post
    Wow, you don't **** around. Nicely done. I just had a T8 ballast go down last week

    My workshop looks like a disaster area after this winter. I had converted it to a ski/snowboard waxing station and it never recovered.
    Thanks amigo. I have a bad tendency to sometimes overdo stuff. G-g-get yo' ass over to Wal*Mart. The 'Depot and Lowes didn't have anything as nice, with a pull-chain for the price.

    Since I'm starting out from scratch, I figured I'd dedicate a bench to firearm maintenance, and do a separate area for typical workshop chores. Otherwise I'll descend down the slippery slope of expletive shouting, where the ______ is my screwdriver, sort of chicanery.

    For example, I once had many hex keys. Now I have about two.

    Quote Originally Posted by SuicideHz View Post
    Wow. I have that same EXACT vice!! It was my uncle's and he left it behind when he moved to Vegas. My dad let me have it.
    I've been seeing it more and more in a couple of threads around here. Considering it had a heavy coating of rust, and looked very unloved, it's surprisingly pretty damned nice.
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    I'd post a picture of my workbench at work but it pretty much looks like a tornado it most of the time.
    Controlled chaos I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gotm4 View Post
    I'd post a picture of my workbench at work but it pretty much looks like a tornado it most of the time.
    Controlled chaos I guess.
    That's because you actually use it. Kinda like a well-worn/loved firearm. The ugly ones are always the ones that mean business.

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    You got a thing for yellow or somethin'?


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    Wink

    Quote Originally Posted by rob_s View Post
    You got a thing for yellow or somethin'?

    My favourite colours are OD and Yellow.

    [threadjack]

    Imagine my shock when the TYV shirt was...white...



    Imagine my delight when I saw this: http://nametapes.com/blackonyellow-customnametapes.aspx
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