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Old March 30, 2008, 06:17 PM   #1
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Setting up my table

ok so I am gona start to mount the heavy pieces of equipment to a table, and I wanted to ask if it was unadvisable to be using a metal surfaced table. Everything I have seen in pictures seems to be wood and I figure its just to prevent hard impacts from falling parts (because I dont think its very likely metal to metal will spark at dropped height of 2 feet or less).

Anyway if it makes a difference this table I am using is actually a wooden table with a very thin layer of sheet metal on top of it (like 1/32 inch). It would sure make it alot easier to clean from time to time if I could keep it this way. I want to say it feels like aluminum but there are a few tiny pitted areas that look a bit rusted so it must be steel.
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Old March 30, 2008, 07:40 PM   #2
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Reloading table...

Forty-Five--I don't forsee any problems with a metal-surfaced table per se. And certainly it would be easy to keep clean.

A bud of mine has a length of Formica countertop for his reloading table--One of the advangages of THAT is that there are no nooks & crannies in which junk can hide.

I DO forsee a problem with drilling bolt holes in yr metal table-top for mounting yr reloading press(es). You'll need some sort of heavy-duty hole-making apparatus. And if you decide to move a press, or buy a new one that has a different bolt hole pattern, there will be leftover bolt holes, but that is more aesthetic than an actual problem.

OK, I just thought of a "problem." If you spill metallic components, or a toolbox, onto the metal tabletop, it'd make quite a racket. Other than that, though, GO for it!!
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Old March 30, 2008, 07:45 PM   #3
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cool, thanks. Turns out it was 1/16 in. thick, but no match for a new drill bit and plenty o' dubya d-40.
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Old March 30, 2008, 07:56 PM   #4
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4orty, I have a 1/16th steel table top and have had no problems with it.It sure does make cleanup alot easier...one sweep with a towel and your done! Better the getting brass shavings stuck in in wooden grooves!
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