Overview of the reloading area from my casting table
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Some storage shelves and area where I keep some lubemaking supplies, the hotplates, lubestick molds, my Lee molds, ingot molds, etc etc
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My beloved Lyman 45s, with the "custom" heater I learned how to make here at Cast Boolits. :)
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My gun cleaning and minor pistol smithing area. All my supplies are in the cabinets up above. Primers, powder, loaded ammo are in the (locked) cabinets below.
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My wife bought me a Craftsman workbench to do my reloading on for my birthday a couple months after we got married. We were poor, poor and poor, but she saved up and surprised me with it. When we met, I was reloading on an old discarded coffee table. I've kept that Craftsman bench for over twenty years, and it will always be my number one loading bench.
The inside cabinet is where I store my clean "from big ingots to lead-pot size ingots" as well as my different alloyed ingots. Lyman #2 is in the Lyman ingots; pure lead is in the Lee ingots, alloy with extra tin and linotype is in the RCBS ingots, and linotype is poured in the Lee 1/2 pound ingots. Up above, I still have various boxes full of commercial cast bullets I've bought or traded for in the past thirty-plus years.
I also have a decent amount of jacketed bullets for .30 caliber and smaller.
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I've modified and added onto this Craftsman bench several times over the years. The last add-on was 1 1/2" of birch sitting on some cut 2/4s to elevate the benchtop to the same height as my workbench that runs 12' wide on the east end of the shop where all the cabinets and drawers are.
I sanded and polyurethaned the wood, then sanded and waxed it and now have a very nice, smooth, hard surface that's fairly durable.
This is the "red" side of the shop, with my MEC 650, Lee Classic Turret, Lee Challenger and Pro1000 presses--the latter two of which I've had since the mid-80's and which have loaded tens of thousands of rounds on.
I'm getting ready to semi-retire the little Challenger to sizing and depriming duties. I'm down to between a Lee Classic Cast single stage or the Hornady Lock N Load single stage press, and am truly flipping a coin as to which one to buy.
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This workbench was my (late) grandfather's and I'm making it my "progressive" bench. I'll move the Pro1000 over to it, and on the right side will go a Dillon Square Deal B set up for .45ACP, and on the left side of the bench (closest to the air compressor) will go a Dillon 550B. The Pro1000 will be set up for basically .380ACP and that's it. I don't shoot a lot of .380, but have several guns, two molds and lots and lots of brass. I also keep a Star .380 (mini 1911) and spare magazine in my flight bag, so I like to stay proficient with it.
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And that's pretty much it for my home reloading set up. I've got some more stuff, but it's still in boxes and I have no idea when I'll unpack it and set it up.
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