Show us your reloading setup!
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DRAINSMITH
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Love the bench.
I bought the same one from Harbour Freight last summer on sale IIRC for around $130. Couldn't be happier with it! I was working off an old workmate fold up bench before that. Like night and day.
Love the bench.
I bought the same one from Harbour Freight last summer on sale IIRC for around $130. Couldn't be happier with it! I was working off an old workmate fold up bench before that. Like night and day.
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I'm just getting started in reloading pistol and rifle rounds. I really appreciate this thread that you started. It has given me some good ideas.
ajgunner
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The old room.
The new room.
The new room.
I mostly use my portable reloading table (the legs can be unscrewed) a friend & I made over 35yrs ago. I had my RCBS JR3 on it for a long time but moved it to a ridged mount on the garage work bench. When I put the Lyman T-Mag II on the portable I had to add the 2x4 to space it more towards the center of the table because of it's angled handle. When it's too hot/cold in the garage I use the portable inside, along side a desk/table, to do my reloading. It's real convenient.
Recently upgraded it's color from primer black to prime gray.
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Portable Reloading Table
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Recently upgraded it's color from primer black to prime gray.
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Portable Reloading Table
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My DIY Wet Tumbler
It's not pretty, but it's so much better when you do it yourself.
After a lot of research into what others have done, I decided to make a wet tumbler from a 4" PVC pipe, aproximately 3' long.
I used 3 pieces of 3/4" aluminum angle inside spaced evenly as agitators, secured with standard hardware and sealed with silicone.
One end is capped with a standard PVC end plug, the other is a rubber boot, with a hose clamp. Have to get into the sucker right?
I used an old Ryobi 18v cordless drill motor powered by an old 18v PC power supply. I chucked the drill with the small sprocket from a kids bike and attached the large sprocket on the tumbler canister. The chain was adjusted to fit. Currently using the trigger for speed control but, purchased a electric motor controller with a switch and speed dial for final wiring. It moves around 45-50 RPM.
The base is just 1x4 with 2" castors, 4 tumbler rollers and 1 to hold the end by the rubber boot. It has about a 3/4cant to it towards the back end where the boot is.
Pictures are of my first run, using 5 lbs of stainless pins as media, aproximately 1 gallon of water (about half full) and some Lemi-Shine dishwasher water softener. Results were amazing.
Not counting the media, I have about $30 in this, the stainless pins cost about $40 for 5 lbs.
(Note: I have a tumbler, been accumulating brass, building bullet and brass feeders, and plan to buy a Hornady LnL Progressive in the spring of 2016.)
It's not pretty, but it's so much better when you do it yourself.
After a lot of research into what others have done, I decided to make a wet tumbler from a 4" PVC pipe, aproximately 3' long.
I used 3 pieces of 3/4" aluminum angle inside spaced evenly as agitators, secured with standard hardware and sealed with silicone.
One end is capped with a standard PVC end plug, the other is a rubber boot, with a hose clamp. Have to get into the sucker right?
I used an old Ryobi 18v cordless drill motor powered by an old 18v PC power supply. I chucked the drill with the small sprocket from a kids bike and attached the large sprocket on the tumbler canister. The chain was adjusted to fit. Currently using the trigger for speed control but, purchased a electric motor controller with a switch and speed dial for final wiring. It moves around 45-50 RPM.
The base is just 1x4 with 2" castors, 4 tumbler rollers and 1 to hold the end by the rubber boot. It has about a 3/4cant to it towards the back end where the boot is.
Pictures are of my first run, using 5 lbs of stainless pins as media, aproximately 1 gallon of water (about half full) and some Lemi-Shine dishwasher water softener. Results were amazing.
Not counting the media, I have about $30 in this, the stainless pins cost about $40 for 5 lbs.
(Note: I have a tumbler, been accumulating brass, building bullet and brass feeders, and plan to buy a Hornady LnL Progressive in the spring of 2016.)
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gunfighter48
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I'm just getting back into reloading after a 15 year break. I just got my Hornady Ammo Plant setup last week. I got everything dialed in to start loading 45ACP and have been sick for the last week with an infection. So I have just played with it a few times and I'm loving it already. I bought 2 semi-auto Tommy guns in the last 6 months and they go thru 45ACP very quickly!! I'll also be loading 45 Colt and eventually some 308 and maybe some 5.56/223 down the road.
Here's a picture of it on my bench.
Here's a picture of it on my bench.
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Rogeronimo
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AveragEd
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We downsized to a two-bedroom condo five years ago so the space we have has to do double-duty. This second bedroom has become my office/gun room.
Thousands of rounds of handgun and rimfire ammo along with many thousand handgun bullets, extra brass and 27 cases of shotshells are on super heavy-duty shelving or on the floor in the double closet across from the bench. Between the closets is where my small desk with my desktop PC resides and my 50 cubic-foot safe is to the near side of the loading bench.
It's surprising what you can make fit into a small space when you have to!
Ed
Thousands of rounds of handgun and rimfire ammo along with many thousand handgun bullets, extra brass and 27 cases of shotshells are on super heavy-duty shelving or on the floor in the double closet across from the bench. Between the closets is where my small desk with my desktop PC resides and my 50 cubic-foot safe is to the near side of the loading bench.
It's surprising what you can make fit into a small space when you have to!
Ed
DRAINSMITH
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O.K. time for an update I have added a few things. And my grand daughter taught me how to post photos.
DRAINSMITH
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Sad thing is I have an other Ammo-plant sitting on top of a 55 gal barrel that I use for scrap metal. I am building a reloading room off of my shop that I am going to have 4 harbor freight benches end to end.
Twoboxer
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So much red . . . looks like hel . . . er, HORNADY 
Love it!
Love it!
My reloading stuff was starting to take over my bench so I set up a new area where the press is mounted on shelves.... keeps it very neat as there isn't enough room to store stuff.
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novalty
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My bench is almost back together after a recent change in my single stage setup.
