Reloading Benches & Work Areas

Nevada Ed · Apr 21, 2013

A table is nice................
but you soon learn that LOTS of shelves and STORAGE SPACE is even better, with most of us.

Good loading.

Rule3 · Apr 21, 2013

I think IKEA should come out with a reloading bench

smokindog · Apr 21, 2013

What part of the rolling drawers, cabinets with shelves, and peg board all around my table did you miss

This is what it looked like about 2 years ago, a few months after we moved in and just after I bought the first batch and got things assembled. Have added and rearranged a few times since. Will be getting anther table and chest, ... to set my reloading are up once I put a wall in to split things off.

Nevada Ed said:
A table is nice................
but you soon learn that LOTS of shelves and STORAGE SPACE is even better, with most of us.

Good loading.

Engineer1911 · Apr 21, 2013

The wall needs paint

!!

smokindog · Apr 21, 2013

Got a boat load of signage (auto, oil, service station, ...) to put up once I come up for air!!!!

Engineer1911 said:
The wall needs paint !!

Rule3 · Apr 21, 2013

smokindog said:
What part of the rolling drawers, cabinets with shelves, and peg board all around my table did you miss

This is what it looked like about 2 years ago, a few months after we moved in and just after I bought the first batch and got things assembled. Have added and rearranged a few times since. Will be getting anther table and chest, ... to set my reloading are up once I put a wall in to split things off.

Dang you can get a vehicle in your garage??

smokindog · Apr 21, 2013

This is the detached workshop/RV garage!!!

Rule3 said:
Dang you can get a vehicle in your garage??

Engineer1911 · Apr 21, 2013

He must have real money. He's got a garage, a play house, and enough room to put a vehicle in the garage. Unbelieveable

, HOW???

Rule3 · Apr 21, 2013

smokindog said:
This is the detached workshop/RV garage!!!

Can we come over a play at your House??

jayman9207 · Apr 24, 2013

I have a freezer next to my reloading bench right now. Will it be a potential issue or will I be OK leaving it next to the workbench?

shield · Apr 24, 2013

jayman9207 said:
I have a freezer next to my reloading bench right now. Will it be a potential issue or will I be OK leaving it next to the workbench?

Why would a freezer be a concern at all? I guess if there's a lot of traffic going to it, then that may be disruptive while reloading.

smokindog · Jun 10, 2013

Good deal on these through Father's day!

Free ship on this
Seville Classics Lighted Hardwood Top Workbench - Sam's Club

AND if you Home Depot still has 'em, $85 for this!
HDX 5-Drawer Tool Chest and Cabinet Combo with Riser-C-295BRD at The Home Depot

AveragEd · Jun 10, 2013

A few photos of my gun room.

As you can see, I load just about everything!

Ed

dickttx · Jun 11, 2013

My reloading/cleaning area as of yesterday.

Just moved from 16 Ac. in the country.
Believe it or not I can still get to my reloading area and work. Did a couple of hundred 38 Supers last week.

damienph · Jun 11, 2013

My bench came from a Vo-Tech school. It was part of a science lab station that they got rid of when they updated curriculum back in the early '90s.

It has eight drawers in the center on heavy duty tracks; the drawers held hundreds of glass slides. At each end is a cabinet. The sides are 3/4" plywood and the top is 1 1/2" laminated (looks to be Ash). It sits on very heavy duty casters. The blue drawers on the left are from an old bolt/screw display from Ace Hardware. The shelves are just made from 1"x6" pine.

I have less than $100 in all of it. I just wish that it was in a separate room instead of in a corner of the garage. At least it has heat and air.

jayman9207 · Jun 25, 2013

I finally got things arranged the way I like and finally took some pictures. I am kind of kicking myself for getting the SQB press now that I own an M&P15 Sport and am in the process of building a second rifle. I am not knocking the SQB in any manner as I love the press but just wish I could also use it to load .223/5.56. Going to save my pennies and put a layaway down payment on a 550 or a 650 (still not sure which one yet) eventually.

My workbench reloading space:

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My storage area for primers (upper), powders (lower), and misc parts & ammo bins (lower drawers):

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Bugkiller99 · Jun 25, 2013

This may be slightly off topic, but it sorta fits here.
I'm about to get started, and have a bench area in my garage. Before I clear out an area for storage, how concerned should I be about FL heat and humidity? I still park my vehicles in the garage And in the afternoons after everyone is home it gets over 100° and very high humidity.
Should I store everything inside? And bring it to the bench to load?
Right now every things in the house still in boxes

Bkreutz · Jun 25, 2013

Bugkiller99 said:
This may be slightly off topic, but it sorta fits here.
I'm about to get started, and have a bench area in my garage. Before I clear out an area for storage, how concerned should I be about FL heat and humidity? I still park my vehicles in the garage And in the afternoons after everyone is home it gets over 100° and very high humidity.
Should I store everything inside? And bring it to the bench to load?
Right now every things in the house still in boxes

I'd probably store the powder in a conditioned space. Temperature changes may cause moisture. I don't have much of a problem in Seattle (people start falling over in the street at 90F), so this is supposition on my part.

Bkreutz · Jul 13, 2013

Here's where I do my reloading. I appropriated a corner of my shop. The workbench I made out of rock maple and is bolted to the floor (it's original purpose was as a woodworking bench but I've made a bigger one so I re purposed it) Instead of bolting directly to the bench top, I made another top out of some 1" plywood I had lying around. I put 3 cleats on it and I can use the 3 vices to clamp it to the top of the bench. My idea was I would still have the use of the bench for other things if I wanted but after using it for a while I can't see that happening.

novalty · Jul 13, 2013

Hoping to get the office cabinet I got from my work mounted above my bench soon. That way I can get my primers and powder stored nicer, plus it has a fluorescent light with on/off switch mounted underneath. After that I'll try to add some shelving for my manuals.

Had to add a second bench for my casting equipment and for cleaning my firearms.

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