Mounting a powder measure on a separate stand

[W.R.Buchanan]

Most of my ancillary tooling is mounted to aluminum plates so they are portable and easily removable from the bench so that they can be stored elsewhere. They are held in place with clamps when in use.

Since I have a machine shop with lots of pieces of Aluminum laying around I can mount tools to plates that look nice. However you could do the same thing with pieces of plywood and accomplish the same thing for a fraction of the cost.

Please note; the Plastic Trash Bags covering the tools when not in use.

Randy

[wv109323]

My RCBS powder measure and stand are mounted on plywood. I use C clamps to attach to bench when I need it. With a MTM loading tray you can only throw charges in the center row of brass with the tray oriented one way. It would be nice if you could throw all charges without rotating the loading tray.

[nccaster77]

I had these mounted one behind the other, w/ the one in-back mounted on a block so it was raised. The mounts are Lyman.

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Sorry not hijacking but is that an old Hollywood press on the right.

[ReloaderFred]

Sorry not hijacking but is that an old Hollywood press on the right.

It's the shorter Hollywood Senior, which was the same model press I started loading on in 1963, when I bought mine used from one of my college professors. I also have a tall Hollywood Senior, and Kevin has a whole collection of them. Both of mine are still in use, along with several other presses.

Hope this helps.

Fred

[poppy42]

I’m not sure about the auto drum but the Lee autodisk is definitely case activated. It is designed to mount atop a Lee powder through die. To my knowledge there is no kit or parts available to convert an autodisk to a manualy operated powder dispenser. You would have to make some type of device yourself. To be honest I’m having a hard time understanding why you would want to. If you want a powder measure that’s not case activated you’d be better off getting an RCBS uniflow, a Lyman 55, or one of the other powder measures that are designed to operate independently of a reloading press

[Winger Ed.]

I’ve been thinking about doing the same thing for my Lyman 55. More to get it up closer to eye level.

Ya gotta be comfortable.
Reaching up, down, or out too far makes my arms & shoulders ache after a while.
I sit where I can comfortably charge a 50 round block, and bring it straight back to look down
inside all the cases before I move on to seating.

I have a $5. garage sale office chair that adjusts up & down for charging cases, and seating on a single stage at the right height,
then raise it up to see inside .45 cases as they come around on the progressive from the powder station.

It isn't as good as weighing every charge, but looking down at the powder levels in side by side cases-
its easy to see if one isn't quite right either.