Maker space for reloaders

[juststarting]

So another brain fart. I am not sure if you guys are familiar with a concept of maker space...

Maker spaces, sometimes also referred to as hackerspaces, hackspaces, and fablabs are creative, DIY spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries they often have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and tools, and more.

Big in IT, where everyone brings something, tools, old hardware and just come and hack on hardware, software, socialise with likeminded people or get some help on whatever they are working on. Recently it gained popularity as 'community space' for woodwork, not sure about any other places.

Would be awesome to have something like that for reloading! Just a thought. Don't think it would work in the bush, where distances are huge, but in Melbourne metro area - could work well, chip in for small factory space. Have some workshops, tools for free use, or just rent a space for some reloading if you just come in off the street. Anyway, just a random thought.

[on_one_wheel]

Iv'e often thought how crazy it is that everyone who's into reloading buys all the tools.
If we had some kind of group thing going like the Mens Sheds community.

Perhaps it would work within a gun club, if you made a date for a group reload session and told people to bring in equipment to share for a few hours. I'd bet after a few years you could build up a full kit of reloading equipment to share made up from surplus equipment donated by reloaders. For example I've got a spare beam scale that's not likely to be used and a neck reamer that I don't like ... I'd donate that sort of stuff to a reloading club of sorts.


Great idea JS

[juststarting]

...some kind of group thing going like the Mens Sheds community.

that's exactly what I meant! I just couldn't remember the name.

Great idea JS

Yeah, I am pretty awesome.

[Tonit]

Anyone got a big shed that will fit all of us?

[happyhunter]

Sounds like a good idea between a few mates, but if the group grew to become public expect the unfriendlies to invent a law to take the fun out of it.

[bladeracer]

My local dealer told me a while back that he does a reloading night at the shop every month and that I was welcome to come along.
I think it was more of a teaching exercise than simply churning out ammo though.

[juststarting]

bladeracer, which shop?

[sandgroperbill]

This is where turret presses would shine. Simply screw in your own turret, shellholder and away you go. A few presses and scales in a shed, add a bbq and it would make a great night.

[Gwion]

Great in theory but a recipe for disaster, I think. Mix ups with powders, bullets, dies..... All easy enough to do on your own without 8 other blokes telling you how you should be doing it!

[Gwion]

Mind you: a collective to buy Dillon gear and a bunch of the expensive case prep gear where everyone just has their own turret head for each cartridge to load in bulk...... Now that could work.

[bladeracer]

Great in theory but a recipe for disaster, I think. Mix ups with powders, bullets, dies..... All easy enough to do on your own without 8 other blokes telling you how you should be doing it!

Concentration counts.
My girlfriend was talking to me while I was loading some 6.5x55mm the other day.
I managed to seat a bullet without charging the case.
I spotted it straight away as the tray was still full of powder when I went to dump the next load into it.
I always shake each round by my ear after a session to make sure they're charged so I would've spotted it regardless, but mistakes are easily made.

[juststarting]

ROFL. So basically, because Gwion has ADD it's a bad idea. I think it would be awesome in practice.

[Gwion]

Just wait 'til some one like Genisis is standing over your shoulder lecturing you on your reloading technique!!!

And it's less ADD and more OCD..... I'd hate to have to set up after someone else all the time!

[juststarting]

You're missing the point here. OCD bit I completely understand. But the broader objective here is to have a community space and heat for people to use who wouldn't otherwise. It's less about reloading batches for the range and more about learning and tinkering.

[juststarting]

OCD, ADHD and tourette syndr... Oh look, a bird! Mother f#@ing c#@*t, where was I? Oh look, a bird!

I live with this, the struggle is real.

[Gwion]

I know what your point is but you are missing mine:

- potential for dangerous screw ups

This leads to very real considerations, like:
- liability
- insurance
- personal responsibility

[juststarting]

Also, crossing the road is really really dangerous. I see your point, I just think your point is a product of a nanny state, if that's what comes to your mind first. Rather then, damn, I'd love to hangout with other gun nutters

[Gwion]

Not the product of a nanny state; the product of having been involved in business and the running of a few public incorporated NFP organisations.

If you don't consider these things you're walking into a world of pain. People are always, 'she'll be right, we're all good' until they f*** up and are looking for someone to blame.

There's also the issue of shared property. Don't want to end up like a local gun club here where it was 'all good' until the president absconded with the takings for a 'holiday to Tahiti' and left the public officer holding the liability and the members out of pocket and the club defunct.

Just a reality check.

[juststarting]

Liability is covered by insurance or body corporate, depending on the details. Everything is the same as any other club or organisation. You have a constitution, asset register, etc. Everything that you have called out is trivial to mitigate. Trivial. Hence, I said this is nanny state in you talking.

I recon equipment is either owned by the club or brought for use by an individual and taken home when that person goes home.

Finding a usable location in Melbourne, a small factory for rent or something and figuring out how to finance it is a challenge. Especially the financing part. Equipment can be a acquired through sponsorships and whatever, like this is not even a blimp on a challenge radar.

Not my first time building something like this from nothing. Reality checked

Anyway, just a brain fart at this stage.

[Gwion]

It's all trivial, as I say, until someone f***s up and comes looking at you for someone to blame. It's not about a nanny state, it's about people's inherent unwillingness to take responsibility for their own screw ups.

It's a very real risk and going into something like this with out considering it is foolish. Accusing me of being part of a nanny state because I am the first to point it out is really kind'a childish.

[juststarting]

I didn't say it's something that should be ignored. Think we got off the track here. It's a risk like any other risk and can be mitigated like any other risk. Like I already said. The end. I am not sure why you are still going on about it.

[p3seven]

Could not this be part of the Mens Shed concept. But they are usually open week days. Negiotation could see night use of the facilities. And also include women.

[juststarting]

Could not this be part of the Mens Shed concept. But they are usually open week days. Negiotation could see night use of the facilities. And also include women.

Definitely. However, you really want to have everyone on premises fully licensed, so sharing the facility would be an issue I suspect. Also, why wouldn't women be not allowed?

[on_one_wheel]

. Also, why wouldn't women be not allowed?

Was that a deliberate double negative?
I hope you don't not know what I mean ? .... anyhow,
Because "Men's shed" ... secret men's business n stuff, you know just like a bloke wouldn't just rock up to a CWA cake cooking workshop without first asking permission (what sort of pansy whould do that anyhow )

[juststarting]

A hipster would. But not a lumbersexual. See!

[on_one_wheel]

A hipster would. But not a lumbersexual. See!

ToMato / TomAto

I just Googled "hipster chick" IT'S A REAL THING

I'm all for hipster chicks if this is how they roll

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[juststarting]

You know nothing!

[on_one_wheel]

You know nothing!

Hipsters are the biggest pretend men going. They grow beards to try to make up for their lack of REAL manliness.

[juststarting]

That would lumbersexuals, hipsters grow mustaches to curl.

[on_one_wheel]

Here's a few things you're likely to tell a hipster.

" not that way mate, hold the screwdriver from the other end"

" yes you need to undo the wheel nuts before you can remove the wheel"

"Don't go in there, that's the female toilets, blokes use the one marked MEN"