Let's see those reloading rooms!!!
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Nothing, like keeping all your Easter eggs in one basket...
Myself, I was taught not to keep/store the blasting caps with the powder charges in avalanche control school.. and that stuck in my components storage. Yet, too each his own....
Yes, I know they do ship them together, but.... Better safe than (boom) sorry, though.
That's correct, I practice social "components distancing" for the hell of it....and a peace of mind.
Nothing, like keeping all your Easter eggs in one basket...
Myself, I was taught not to keep/store the blasting caps with the powder charges in avalanche control school.. and that stuck in my components storage. Yet, too each his own....
Yes, I know they do ship them together, but.... Better safe than (boom) sorry, though.
That's correct, I practice social "components distancing" for the hell of it....and a peace of mind.
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Nothing fancy here . . . finally got to where I could get back in it after the winter and all the stuff that happens when the snow flies.
Couple of single stage lymans, . . . and a turret as well, . . . do .45ACP mostly, . . . been known to mess with 5.56 and 7.62 x 51.
May God bless,
Dwight
Couple of single stage lymans, . . . and a turret as well, . . . do .45ACP mostly, . . . been known to mess with 5.56 and 7.62 x 51.
May God bless,
Dwight
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Nice setup! I started reloading on a Lyman press just like that that my dad bought brand new in 1968. GI1
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All three of those are in that age range, . . .
I got out of reloading for about 10 years, . . . when I got back in, . . . got those off Ebay, . . .
My first one was a single stage in about 1971.
May God bless,
Dwight
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I prefer the keeping my supplies in the open so it's easy for me to keep account of what I have. Now I just got to get all my brass and projectiles in a order...My friend and I were talking about reloading for the 1K range this Summer.
Hopefully, we can keep the presses fed for the foreseeable future. If not, we'll be busy with other problems.
Looks like you've got that plastic shelving unit operating right near it's MAX...![]()
I like to use 2nd hand, 4 drawer files for stuff like that.
Tough as nails and cheap too.
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Lol yeah almost, but it'll last forever and I'll never be unhappy with it. Thanks!!
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You say nothing fancy here but it sure makes one feel at home.
Stay safe, and god bless.
Ren
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My little piece of heaven.....
My wife says "NOT ONE SQUARE FOOT MORE, MISTER
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.......I MEAN IT"
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My wife says "NOT ONE SQUARE FOOT MORE, MISTER
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" But Honey, I don't need more Square Footage .... it's more Cubic Feet I'm looking for ! "
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Ok, no laughing..........
I aspire to have a bench (and the sqft) to build a 'reloading zone' like 1000yards. That is so awesome. Please forgive me if I keep that picture so I can emulate it some day. Some day, when I have the room (wife permitting) I will. I am even saving a 4'x3' piece of 1-1/4" silestone to make my dream bench. I have a place to store my stuff - as the last pic shows - but I am bench challenged..... T7, rock chucker and all the accoutrements are set up in the basement - on a wicked heavy coffee table - in front of the baseball/football game. My Sinclair BR rig (in a pelican case) is the counterweight. I call this improvising........for almost 20 years now. The Dillon SDB has to be setup on my garage workbench - because it just has to be due to the way it works and how much leverage it takes.
It has worked for me for a long time. I have loaded allot of competition ammo in the basement. On that coffee table (I hear the giggling now....)
Perhaps this inspires some of you to not bag reloading because you don't have the room.
I tried the kitchen table.... That lasted a sum total of 3 hours and my hobby was banished to the man cave.... which worked out fine for me. The garage is my domain - pretty much, but my SDB cranks out 300-400 rds an hour so it goes pretty fast and doesn't get my bride spun up.
New reloaders - do it! It's very satisfying to punch little holes in paper (or game) with ammo that you had a hand in making yourself. It can be done! No hillbilly jokes please.....
Best, S-
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I aspire to have a bench (and the sqft) to build a 'reloading zone' like 1000yards. That is so awesome. Please forgive me if I keep that picture so I can emulate it some day. Some day, when I have the room (wife permitting) I will. I am even saving a 4'x3' piece of 1-1/4" silestone to make my dream bench. I have a place to store my stuff - as the last pic shows - but I am bench challenged..... T7, rock chucker and all the accoutrements are set up in the basement - on a wicked heavy coffee table - in front of the baseball/football game. My Sinclair BR rig (in a pelican case) is the counterweight. I call this improvising........for almost 20 years now. The Dillon SDB has to be setup on my garage workbench - because it just has to be due to the way it works and how much leverage it takes.
It has worked for me for a long time. I have loaded allot of competition ammo in the basement. On that coffee table (I hear the giggling now....)
Perhaps this inspires some of you to not bag reloading because you don't have the room.
I tried the kitchen table.... That lasted a sum total of 3 hours and my hobby was banished to the man cave.... which worked out fine for me. The garage is my domain - pretty much, but my SDB cranks out 300-400 rds an hour so it goes pretty fast and doesn't get my bride spun up.
New reloaders - do it! It's very satisfying to punch little holes in paper (or game) with ammo that you had a hand in making yourself. It can be done! No hillbilly jokes please.....
Best, S-
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I have not yet finished building some shelves for the area above the corner desk, but this is the room.
I built the reloading cabinet about 18 months ago, a little after moving to this house. I brought a 4’x2’x 39” tall bench from my last place that was a rental, but now I get to drill holes in my own walls. The old bench was used for about 4 months till I got a spare week to build the cabinet and mount all my presses with 5/16” bolts into a repeating 4”x4” pattern of inserts on the worksurface. All of the brass is in bins stored in the footwell, with powder on a hidden shelf above, primers and bullets in one cabinet, and press parts in the other. Just enough room for a couple seasons of 308 and 223 components!
A year and a half later, I got the inspiration to build somewhat matching wall-mount worksurfaces for my other projects and engineering work. It has also been a bit of a hands-on diversion in the free time forced on us by my wife recovering from a car vs cyclist - which she is about 90% healed from, thank the Lord! I have been thinking about private consulting and starting a new design/prototype gig from home, so it is a multi-purpose space. Alas, my beautiful bride still wants room for a second or third kid’s full-size bed later on down the line, so I could only get crazy on the one corner of the room (babe, think of the great study and tinkering space he or she will have!). Since she may need some of her own workspace around the time we decide to have the first one I was able to sell her on having some reserved desk space for herself too.
Now to figure out if I can sneak in a new Bridgeport or if she’ll trust her mechanical engineer husband to wire up and convert some 220…
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I built the reloading cabinet about 18 months ago, a little after moving to this house. I brought a 4’x2’x 39” tall bench from my last place that was a rental, but now I get to drill holes in my own walls
. The old bench was used for about 4 months till I got a spare week to build the cabinet and mount all my presses with 5/16” bolts into a repeating 4”x4” pattern of inserts on the worksurface. All of the brass is in bins stored in the footwell, with powder on a hidden shelf above, primers and bullets in one cabinet, and press parts in the other. Just enough room for a couple seasons of 308 and 223 components!A year and a half later, I got the inspiration to build somewhat matching wall-mount worksurfaces for my other projects and engineering work. It has also been a bit of a hands-on diversion in the free time forced on us by my wife recovering from a car vs cyclist - which she is about 90% healed from, thank the Lord! I have been thinking about private consulting and starting a new design/prototype gig from home, so it is a multi-purpose space. Alas, my beautiful bride still wants room for a second or third kid’s full-size bed later on down the line, so I could only get crazy on the one corner of the room (babe, think of the great study and tinkering space he or she will have!). Since she may need some of her own workspace around the time we decide to have the first one I was able to sell her on having some reserved desk space for herself too.
Now to figure out if I can sneak in a new Bridgeport or if she’ll trust her mechanical engineer husband to wire up and convert some 220…
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That looks great.
I have not yet finished building some shelves for the area above the corner desk, but this is the room.
I built the reloading cabinet about 18 months ago, a little after moving to this house. I brought a 4’x2’x 39” tall bench from my last place that was a rental, but now I get to drill holes in my own walls
A year and a half later, I got the inspiration to build somewhat matching wall-mount worksurfaces for my other projects and engineering work. It has also been a bit of a hands-on diversion in the free time forced on us by my wife recovering from a car vs cyclist - which she is about 90% healed from, thank the Lord! I have been thinking about private consulting and starting a new design/prototype gig from home, so it is a multi-purpose space. Alas, my beautiful bride still wants room for a second or third kid’s full-size bed later on down the line, so I could only get crazy on the one corner of the room (babe, think of the great study and tinkering space he or she will have!). Since she may need some of her own workspace around the time we decide to have the first one I was able to sell her on having some reserved desk space for herself too.
Now to figure out if I can sneak in a new Bridgeport or if she’ll trust her mechanical engineer husband to wire up and convert some 220…
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Thanks! Came together a little more in the last month. Filling in the space, but still trying to keep it open (while dreading a mountain of once fired, crimped-primer brass that piled up this year)
The final “after” photo
And since I spent a while sketching and searching for ideas before jumping into the project, I figure I’ll give some of the “before” photos to get the juices flowing for others.
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