Components storage

[Fifield92]

How do you guys stay organized? Looking to upgrade my organization for powders and primers. Open shelves? Cabinets? Share your set up to help me with ideas

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[BLAHUT]

Open shelves.

[Froogal]

Afraid I'm not much help. When I set up my reloading bench, it was to occupy only a small corner of the basement, but now, after adding bullet casting to the mix, the whole thing occupies nearly a full 1/2 to 3/4 of the basement. Although recently several pounds of seldom used powder got moved to a spare, large sized rural mailbox out in the shop.

[Shawlerbrook]

I have both open shelves and drawers and cabinets. There is no such thing as enough space.

[dverna]

This is not a good question. Are you storing enough to load 10,000 rounds, 100,000 rounds or more?

[megasupermagnum]

Powders and primers I keep in powder crates. I have a steel crate made just for powder, and a plastic footlocker I use. The steel one is kind of small, and the plastic one is kind of inconvenient. I may build a couple wood ones this year. Open shelf is convenient, but does not offer any protection from heat, sun, or fire. I think a big steel cabinet would be great, but I would rather use it for other things.

You can find plans for legal powder crates online. I would put casters on them for convenience.

[Winger Ed.]

I'm big on cabinets and old refrigerators since there is always dust, saw dust, dirt, welding smoke, etc. flying around.
I have open shelves too, but nothing on them that I'd mind if it got dirty/dusty.

[50target]

Primers I keep in the house with just enough in the shop for what I'm doing. Got a cheap Home Depot thick plastic storage cabinet 6' tall and about 2' wide for powder stored in the shop. Has double doors that I keep locked to keep out the curious.

[alfadan]

I have a metal shelf I keep powders on. They are lined up like you would see on a retailer's display, with the newer pounds behind the older. On the 4lb jugs, I keep them turned to take less left-to-right space and mark the type with a silver sharpie to see what they are.

Primers are stored in an old wall-mounted wooden cabinet.

[Harter66]

Having been in a room with 100 million primers, another with 500,000# of smokeless powder , and another with millions of loaded rounds ....... Cans on open shelves will be fine .......but . NFPA recommends 35# of powder in a nominal 1" wood cabinet as a maximum . Another may be placed at a distance of 25' or 10' with an 8' fire wall between . It doesn't say in total how much .
Primers should be stored separately no closer than 5' to a powder cabinet if canned it should be in nonpropagation packing, a fancy term that means 5000 CCI commercial packed in 5 boxes with equal layers of corrugated cardboard between boxes , ends , sides , top and bottom in a 30 cal can .

Except powder I keep all of the components and most of the ammo canned . The powder is mostly in the 12x18x34" locker , its right at the fringe of overstock and a couple on on the top of the cabinet.....I should move some stuff around I emptied that 15# keg of Unique , there's probably room for the rest inside now .

Dies and tools are shelved over the bench .

I need a 12×14' room with 40' of 18" deep bench top and 40'×3' each of 8&12" deep shelves with an island 34" tall and 4×6' with cabinets 3×5 under and shelves at 16"×5' on top . That would get everything in proper order .

[ukrifleman]

I have a steel crate made just for powder,

Keeping powder in a steel case is not a good idea, you have basically constructed a bomb!
ukrifleman

[375supermag]

Components are stored in large wooden cabinets in my reloading room.

[lightman]

A stable temperature and out of the direct sunlight is good. For years I stored my primers and powder on open shelves. The window in that room faced North so direct sunlight wasn't much of a problem and the shelves were turned in such a way to minimize it even more. The primers and powder were on different shelves a few feet apart.

Since we've moved I have a whole bedroom for a loading room and I keep my components in the walk-in closet on shelves. Thats even more protection from the sunlight. Once again, the primers and powder are on different shelves separated be several feet.

[LabGuy]

It depends on how much powder you have. <20 lbs? 20 to 50 Lbs? >50 lbs?

[Rich/WIS]

Primers are in 50 cal cans in the bottom drawers of my metal base reloding benches, powder in two wooden powder magazines. The powder magazines are old ammo boxes, the smaller holds 15 one pound factory plastic bottles, the larger holds 4 or 5 of the factory 4 and8 pound jugs.
Only primers not in the reloading benches are the open cartons in use stored in another 50 cal can on a shelf.

[jetinteriorguy]

Check with your local regulations on approved storage methods. Also check on allowable amounts of powder and primers. Exceeding regulations can lead to nullification of insurance coverage in event of a catastrophe such as a home fire.

[challenger_i]

Obviously, this isn't for everybody...

Primers are sorted by type and stored in individual G.I. ammo cans. Powder is stored in an old refrigerator. Both are kept (well separated!) in a 20ft CONEX out back of my shop. I keep only enough of each at my loading bench to fill the current loading project.

[Shawlerbrook]

Tread lightly when asking the authorities questions like this, especially depending on where you live. Use common sense on safe storage and don’t advertise what you have. Just saying........

[challenger_i]

Good advice, sir!

[alamogunr]

Tread lightly when asking the authorities questions like this, especially depending on where you live. Use common sense on safe storage and don’t advertise what you have. Just saying........

Good advice. The area I live in it would only encourage envy and possibly loose talk, which might encourage illegal curiosity.