Easy Reloading Bench
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ajellydonut
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LOWES sells a work bench frame and you just add a 4X8 sheets of plywood. Mine worked out GREAT!
Need cheap and you're beginning? Get a microwave cart at a local thrift. Clamp your press on and reload you heart out. As you gain experience or need more space, look at getting a bigger/heavier bench. Mine is an 18x30 butcher block cutting board. Works fine.
Twoboxer
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Reminded me that my first "bench" was a rolling cabinet like this one except with lockable wheels. Screwed a piece of plywood to the top to create a flat surface, then screwed two 4' pieces of plywood to that to get a 1.5" thick benchtop.
Mounted a SS press on one end, and a progressive on the other. Lockable storage was a plus.
Lots of things can work, or be made to work just fine.
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Majer
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Go to a thrift store or look in the paper for yard sales that have to older wooden desks for sale. They are usually very cheap to buy or free and if you use a mount to raise the press up you can still use the drawers for storage. You want to look for something like this that uses solid wood top and sides.
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Well, if you can wait almost a year, on Black Friday, those Woodworkers Benches are about $110 in store.
They have multiple suppliers, which is why they have multiple stock numbers. I don't recall which are the good ones. I'm sure that changes as their suppliers come and go.
Anyway, I second the idea of also using woodworkers glue, and maybe buying a better set of fasteners. You might want a sheet of plywood for a top, as it has cutouts for doglegs to hold projects in place as you work on them. Anyway, a good starting point.
They have multiple suppliers, which is why they have multiple stock numbers. I don't recall which are the good ones. I'm sure that changes as their suppliers come and go.
Anyway, I second the idea of also using woodworkers glue, and maybe buying a better set of fasteners. You might want a sheet of plywood for a top, as it has cutouts for doglegs to hold projects in place as you work on them. Anyway, a good starting point.
Well done and great price! Thanks
Good advice. Thanks
Oh, Damn the draws work!
And I have more than a single stage mounted!!
I also have mine mounted to the wall 8" L brackets.
You have an impressive set up going there! You also proved you don't need to lose the drawers, without a doubt! I'm not sure if I understand how you mounted the presses on the top only, but I certainly like what you did. Can you mount the Rock Chucker the same way? (I couldn't zoom in well enough to see for sure how you did it) Any chance you have a close-up pic of that?
Thanks
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Thank you for the heads up but I don't have enough patience to wait that long!
daniel lawecki
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The wood vise on the Harbor freight work bench put the plywood. A good grade of wood then drill holes on top use wood dolls that came with bench. The extra wood I made vice jaws and padded vice jaws with the rest of the good plywood. That comes in handy for gun work. On the back put and electrical plug strip where you don't see it. You can add a back to your bench with shelves. Get on line google reloading benches and go from there. And mine isn't bolted to the wall it's free standing. Sorry for the long post but your bench will be awesome. Good Luck
DRAINSMITH
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EMOP doing anything mechanical is my thing but when it comes to computer cr@p I have to get help from one of my granddaughters. Hell, they even laugh at me because I can't take a clear photo. So this is the best that I have of the bracket. I hope this helps.
Now I have one at each end of the bench.
Now I have one at each end of the bench.
I did this and put an old sink cut out on top with lag screws in 1988. It still works fine. I pulled the center drawer as my presses went there.
Current addition to that is an 8' x 2' piece of 1" exterior laminate. sanded and painted the top. Then screwed in a 2x4x8' against the studs where I wanted it to go. Legs on the front are 2 2x4's bolted together and cut to length. It handles bullet sizing duties with out any movement.
I have a Costco storage rack I keep dies, powder, bullets and stuff on. I only keep priming tools, measurement instruments and very small supplies in drawers.
Baltimoreed11754
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First thing is to decide if you're going to stand or sit when you do your reloading. I've always sat when I reloaded. I'm on my third bench build. This one takes up the entire wall of a 12x12 kitchen addition. The bench material is from the habitat store, cubical office desk tops, 1.25 inch thick, very heavy. Exterior deck screws and 2x4s, lag screws into the studs. Go on line and see what other guys did. The thing about making your own is that you make it fit the space to get the most bang for your buck. Good luck, be safe, have fun.
I built my first bench with the intentions of reloading while seated. I shoot wcc 9mm brass and lake city long range 308 brass. Both of these are very thick, while full length resizing I found real quick sitting was not going to work. I also resize in lots say 500- 1000 at a time. Maybe this is why but for leverage standing is the way to go. At least for me
