So, I finally committed to buyin' my reloading equipment and have a couple hundred bucks of equipment shipping to me. YAY! That being said I didn't want to spend too much on my bench, as I plan on getting out of an apartment, and into my first house house soon. So I built my bench to be cheap, strong, and to not take up too much space in my current place. I borrowed a couple of my dad's tools (I don't do much wood work if you couldn't tell by the crude bench) and come to find out, only 2 of his clamps open wide enough to take a 2x4 and 2 layers of 3/4" MDF. Probably should have checked that first. Oh well, I'll live with the slight gap between the MDF panels. (I only screwed down the bottom MDF panel, the top panel is secured with a liberal amount of liquid nails which is why it's covered with buckets of wheel weights right now)
The bench is 18" deep, 48" wide, by 29.5" tall. The bottom shelf was made tall enough to fit my feet under, but still low enough I could store a 5 gallon bucket of wheelweights. And actually the bottom shelf was not in my original plans, but I had enough scrap wood to almost make a complete shelf. (it was just gonna be horizontal bars to keep the legs from flexing)
My Lee Challenger kit should be here in a few days, and I was wonderin' if anyone had any tips on layout and setup. For mounting the press itself, it seems like lag bolts through the front holes and machine bolts and oversized washers in the rear would be my best option. I'm right handed so I figure put the press on the right, but beyond that I'm at a loss for what setup/layout would work well.