Just got my bench set back up in the house we moved into a year ago. Time to get back at it. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7269ca9c25.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f73b63fedd.jpg
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Just got my bench set back up in the house we moved into a year ago. Time to get back at it. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7269ca9c25.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f73b63fedd.jpg
Here are a few shots of my shop. Looks like I need to resize them.
It's starting to look like your new hobby will be building reloading rooms, rather than using them. (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
On a brighter note, all you're really losing is walls and wiring. The furnishings can move with you (as long as you're not moving to an apartment). It stinks to have lost so much time invested, but I've never finished a project that I didn't start wishing I'd done some things better, or just differently. Your new room will benefit from the experience of building this one. And what you leave behind probably increases the sales appeal of your house, so, bonus! :smile:
My last reloading room was about 120 sq ft and was just about perfect for my needs. After retirement we moved from SE New Mexico to the Houston area in 2019 to a house with no place to reload or build my RC airplanes so I designed a shop and had it built. I had to satisfy the city and the HOA architectural committee. One restriction was that it had to be attached to the house or garage and another was an aerial right-of-way for power lines in a neighborhood where all of the cables are buried. The HOA architectural committee wasn't a problem. It's my next door neighbor and we get along well. The city wasn't even very difficult. I only had to make one revision for them to approve my amateur but very complete CAD drawings. I just wish I had tried to get a higher roofline approved so I would have had more headroom for the reloading area. In my drawings the shop is no taller than the ridge of the garage which made walls on the sides of the reloading area nonexistent. In the long run, I think it's going to work out well in spite of the headroom limitation.
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This is the empty room while I was laying the vinyl flooring.
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Casting area. The bathroom fan was purchased for my last reloading room that had a normal 8' ceiling and open space above it. I never got around to installing it so I used it here. It's very quiet. I think the sones rating is 50. I installed an under counter LED light that I had on hand inside the vent hood. It's not nearly bright enough and will be replaced.
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Bullet sizing station and pistol mold storage. I don't cast for rifles much so those molds are a few steps away from the casting area.
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Wide shot of the single stage and progressive benches. I used some old cabinet doors that I found in the attic to cover the window to keep prying eyes from seeing into the room. I like the solution much better than curtains since the doors also serve to hold my cap and safety glasses. The case feeder for the 650 was temporarily removed to feed cases to my Magma Case Master Jr. It really speeds up push-through sizing of .40 S&W range brass. Once brass has been through the Case Master Jr. it is marked before going to the range so I know it's already been full length sized. I shoot it in an STI (avatar photo) so after one push-through sizing it can be full length sized on a press for subsequent reloads.
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Closer views of the progressive and single stage benches. In the previous reloading rooms the progressive bench was 42" tall; about the same as a standard 36" high bench plus a strong mount. In this shop I had to shorten the bench to a height where I can use the Dillon presses while sitting. I've always used the single stage presses from a sitting position so there were no changes to that bench.
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The previous shops had cabinets on the walls. Since I no longer have walls the benches were reinforced to make the legs more stable and lots of storage was built onto the benches.
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Somewhere around 2008 I decided to make the single stage bench more versatile. I set 1/4"x20 threaded inserts into the bench in a pattern that matched the hole pattern in all of my mounting plates. Presses are mounted on 3/8"x6"x12" steel. Light duty tools like powder measures, the Forster case trimmer and RCBS bench priming tool are mounted on 1/2" aircraft plywood. This system makes it easy to put the tools on the bench in whatever order best fits what I'm doing at the moment. The socket head capscrews and some of the inserts in the bench are visible here.
Nice setup, David. Incredibly efficient use of small space. I'm 6'4" so I think I'd be claustrophobic in there!
--Wag--
Thats a nice looking room! I recently moved and went from a 108 sq ft room to a 216 sq ft room. I need to relearn how to post pictures!
That's super!!
Greg
I think you're looking good David.
Huntinherrington, that’s a nice work space.
Thanks for the nice comments about my reloading room, gentlemen.
Yes< i put stuff away for safe keeping, all the time, it's safe, i can't find it again, when i look for it, but when looking for some thing else, i come across it, so i put it away for safe keeping again, repet, repet, repet ??? Some day i may find my reloading bench again ???
I know it is along, in side, my pistol range, some where ??? Oh well<< just like christmas every day, never know what i will find ????
I have to have a small footprint and be portable. ( or I'd be sleeping in my truck) but I am surprised how study it is.Attachment 304147
My tiny humble setup (now has shelves so powder isn't on the bench)
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I also use furniture nuts under my mounting plates that allow me to swap my sg presses. One is set up for 12 and the other for 20 ga.
Nice setup, Mint. Makes me realize that when we use small spaces, we tend to keep them a little better organized.
--Wag--