mikld wrote:You mentioned a bench press is not being considered. Is that because of the surgery, or some other reason (available reloading area or available space)?
It's all about having no space in my home for anything - maybe a little more than 750 square feet in our 1-BR WW2-era condo?
My "first life" up until my divorce in 2002 was with an old WW2-era single-family house, about 1/4 acre yard, primitive driveway for my landscape trucks and lawn care equipment in the back, a large self-built storage shed big enough for my tools and a few mowers kept off the landscape trailer, etc. Lots of boy-toys, room to get things dirty and leave them alone if I wanted to. Everything post-2002 has been living like I am Japanese in Tokyo ever since....hard, sure but it can be done!
My second wife and I have a ton of musical instruments here, almost all are hers except a couple guitars and amps are mine, she has 4-5 ukeleles/2 guitars/a full-kit electronic Yamaha drumset/ upright Yamaha piano/ accordion/gongs/other drums/etc. since she is a life-long musician and music teacher. I somehow stash a bunch of guns and ammo and gear in the various nooks and crannies. Then there's the book collection - why do we have so many? I don't know! We manage to also have 2 dogs, lots of dog toys and the list goes on and on.....
>750 sq. ft. - keep this in mind!
so there is absolutely no place for a workbench of the variety which allows fragrant spray lubricants to enter the home, etc. etc. you get the idea.
A Lee Loader and a Hand Loader are all I will ever need, have the room for, literally....and I am fine with that!
Just wanted to give a sense of the space restrictions - without even bringing up the tool noise restrictions....