What did you do in the reloading room today?

[DougGuy]

I am mounting all my presses and my lube-a-matic on pieces of oak or other solid wood, so they can be clamped onto the workbench and moved around as needed, this allows the loading bench to serve multiple purposes when not reloading. I can clamp the lube a matic and lube boolits, then set it off to the side, clamp the progressive press down and load ammo, or clamp the single stage press down to crimp, trim cases, etc, all with no ugly holes drilled all over the place..

[Jal5]

I am mounting all my presses and my lube-a-matic on pieces of oak or other solid wood, so they can be clamped onto the workbench and moved around as needed, this allows the loading bench to serve multiple purposes when not reloading. I can clamp the lube a matic and lube boolits, then set it off to the side, clamp the progressive press down and load ammo, or clamp the single stage press down to crimp, trim cases, etc, all with no ugly holes drilled all over the place..

I don't know why I didn't do that years ago. But only one set of holes in the bench for the single stage everything else gets its own board clamped down.

[62chevy]

I am mounting all my presses and my lube-a-matic on pieces of oak or other solid wood, so they can be clamped onto the workbench and moved around as needed, this allows the loading bench to serve multiple purposes when not reloading. I can clamp the lube a matic and lube boolits, then set it off to the side, clamp the progressive press down and load ammo, or clamp the single stage press down to crimp, trim cases, etc, all with no ugly holes drilled all over the place..

I did that for a while but those clamps were a real pain to work around. bought the Lee Bench Plate and that was the best 25 bucks I ever spent. http://www.titanreloading.com/press-...ee-bench-plate

[trixter]

After a club session, I did 3 loads of 9mm brass in the tumbler, then loaded up 100 rounds for the club next Saturday. This morning I will straighten up and organize the reloading table. You have to stay on top of it or it will turn into a total disaster zone.

[taco650]

Sized some 45ACP boolits in the Lyman 450

[Lee S. Forsberg]

Cast, powder coated, lubed, sized, and loaded about 1200 45 ACP last week.

[Bob in St. Louis]

Cast about 100 Lee one ounce slugs.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Loaded up a dummy round for my next batch of 44



Lyman 429303
Pretty cool bullet.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/atta...3&d=1423320617


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[dragon813gt]

Cast ingots from the last of my foundry lead. Apparently "the" family member relived me of most of this as well. This was after catching them previous to buying this lead. And locks were changed. So it appears someone stole my keys at some point. There is no way I cast 1,000 pounds of bullets in around eighteen months. I haven't been shooting that much.

[RogerDat]

I am mounting all my presses and my lube-a-matic on pieces of oak or other solid wood, so they can be clamped onto the workbench and moved around as needed, this allows the loading bench to serve multiple purposes when not reloading. I can clamp the lube a matic and lube boolits, then set it off to the side, clamp the progressive press down and load ammo, or clamp the single stage press down to crimp, trim cases, etc, all with no ugly holes drilled all over the place..

I found only plywood worked well as base, wood with a grain seemed to want to split where a mounting screw went through. I avoided clamps by running counter sunk machine screws down through bench and using wing nuts and washer under bench to swap out bases with press mounted on them.

Have considered the Lee base bracket and plate but also the Pat Marlin Rock Dock and Shelf Dock system. But those solutions are on a someday list of money to spend, piece of 5/8 plywood I had already available when pine board snapped. Oak flooring was the other material attempted, too much seam.

http://www.patmarlins.com/product/ro...docking-mount/

[NavyVet1959]

If I was designing a removable press system, I would mount them on an 18"x18" piece of 1/2" steel plate and have that another plate that was the same size mounted underneath my table. Instead of using nuts, I would thread the holes in the piece mounted underneath the table. That way, it would just be 4 bolts that needed to be screwed in from the top to secure everything.

[Lee S. Forsberg]

Loaded up a dummy round for my next batch of 44



Lyman 429303
Pretty cool bullet.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/atta...3&d=1423320617


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Lyman 429303 is a very cool bullet!! Powder coating makes them even cooler. What load are you using?

[Texas by God]

Trying to set up a used Hornady Lock N Load for .223. Finding out what parts are missing. Hornady has sent me some free parts and a DVD. Bless them!

[Michael J. Spangler]

Lyman 429303 is a very cool bullet!! Powder coating makes them even cooler. What load are you using?

Not sure what load I'm going to go with yet.
Definitely not the 26.5 grains of 2400 that Carl Hudson used with it in 1967. That's a little hot.
Probably a reasonable charge of 2400 though.
I have some with one coat of Hi-Tek on them. Once I re-coat them I'll start loading the batch.

[Bookworm]

If I was designing a removable press system, I would mount them on an 18"x18" piece of 1/2" steel plate and have that another plate that was the same size mounted underneath my table. Instead of using nuts, I would thread the holes in the piece mounted underneath the table. That way, it would just be 4 bolts that needed to be screwed in from the top to secure everything.

An 18" x 18" piece of 1/2 steel weighs about 45 pounds. One above and one below the bench is 90 pounds of steel.

Perhaps 1/4" plate sandwiched on the bench-top would suffice ?

[RogerDat]

An 18" x 18" piece of 1/2 steel weighs about 45 pounds. One above and one below the bench is 90 pounds of steel.

Perhaps 1/4" plate sandwiched on the bench-top would suffice ?

The Rock Dock and Shelf Dock are aluminum and form a track along side and across back to in which to slide aluminum base plate with press mounted. Shelf Dock is just small version suitable for holding base plate on shelf. I'm not sure I can see the advantage of steel when 1/2 to 5/8 inch plywood works just fine. Have full length sized 303 and 8 mm Mauser without issue. Only when press is mounted to 3/4 wood board has it cracked.

[dragon813gt]

Inline Fabrication's bench plate is another option. I like it the best since it's completely flush w/ the top. I may put it on my bench in the garage.

[skeettx]

AFTER shooting my Lyman/Ruger 45-70, P-14 in 45-70 and Remington 722 in 22-250.
And S&W 66 with 38 Special ammo
I came home and loaded a bunch of 11 MM Mauser ammo.
Then loaded the Montero Sport with shotguns and ammo for tomorrow's shooting adventure
Mike

[NavyVet1959]

An 18" x 18" piece of 1/2 steel weighs about 45 pounds. One above and one below the bench is 90 pounds of steel.

Perhaps 1/4" plate sandwiched on the bench-top would suffice ?

Perhaps, but as we used to say, anything worth engineering is worth OVER-engineering...

Besides, I would like have enough thickness to thread the top piece where the bolts that went through it could stay within it and not protrude to the table top.

[3jimbo3]

Well, today I completely dismantled my bench adding about 3 feet for a total length of 22 feet. I shortened the height by 5 inches so it matches up to my casting bench, so it is L shaped now. I made the top a lot stronger, and bolted it to the wall. It is very sturdy and clean for now. Tomorrow's plan is to get started on some .223's and 22-250's and probably admire the new bench and do some trim work on it,