Repurposing -- everything old is new again

If Irving and Baily Guns got together.


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Originally Posted by encorehunter

Old jeans I cut up and have made sand bags for shooting from a bench or prone. Also, for exterior of home made animal beds, then stuff them with other old clothes for padding. The dogs love the beds. I have used wooden battery shipping boxes for cabinets and outside toy boxes. I cut one up and made a goat hay and grain feeder.

For a large capacity SS brass tumbler, I screwed some 2x4s pieces into my concrete mixer, then screwed a 5 gallon bucket inside the mixer to the 2x4s. Now I use a second 5 gallon bucket with a gamma screw lid. I glued and screwed some 1x2s in side with gasketed sheet metal screws for paddles. I can clean about 500-800 rounds of .308 with 5 pounds of media. The paddle bucket just slides into the bucket that is screwed into mixer. Simple and easy.

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Been drinking PBR for 20+ years, before the craft brew $10 a six pack craze. I guess I'm a redneck hipster.

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Originally Posted by fly boy

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Yeah, I want to see that too, please.

I dont get off work until tomorrow, so Ill try and post pics then. It was pretty simple to build. The wood paddles on the inner bucket have held up quite well, even after tens of thousands of brass.

Man, I use all kindsa shit for all kindsa shit. If I'm nothing else, I'm resourceful about repurposing stuff. My Depression-era parents infused me with packrat genetics and tendencies. It's all good until ya find me nose down over the edge of a dumpster with my ass in the air.

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Thank you. My phone hates posting pics. Thw paddles work great this way. We had a minor breeze that blew the mixer over last night. Normally the bucket inside is round.