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Like being organized, so everything has a storage place and purpose. Loaders are mounted using a quick attach rail system that is recessed into the bench top. Can swap out loaders in seconds and clear the bench for other purposes if necessary.


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Like being organized, so everything has a storage place and purpose. Loaders are mounted using a quick attach rail system that is recessed into the bench top. Can swap out loaders in seconds and clear the bench for other purposes if necessary.


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Very inspiring I must say. I am currently in the planning stages of building a new bench for my casting activities. I'm thinking of one with an enclosed area with a hood and a power vent that I can insert into a window and cast indoors during the winter.
 
Just make sure your vent top is high enough away from the side of the house or roof or it will stain everything around it. Lead is heavy, even in vapor form and it sticks to everything. I had a fan in my window in the garage where I cast my lead bullets and after three sessions, the siding on my garage was gray about a 3' circle around the window.
I wish I would have taken a picture.
I was using a double motor window fan that fit the window and it worked really well for me, until I looked outside at my siding one day when I was getting ready to move from Pa to North Carolina.
I didn't have time to try to wash it off, I often wish I would have taken the time just to see if it did wash right off.
 
Only been setup in the new house for a Month.. So Far so Good.
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View attachment 857842 View attachment 857843 View attachment 857844 I’m very new to reloading and find this forum extremely valuable. I’m learning on (getting the mistakes out of the way) the Lee single stage and have my sights set on a Dillon 650C by years end. I bought most of my equipment from a guy who never even used it.

You must be a bachelor or have a very understanding wife! It looks like your reloading room is the living room off the front door, nice job mate!
 
Hello everyone. New to the site (well, not really, I signed up ten years ago, but never posted yet), not new to guns or reloading. I was looking something up the other day and stumbled upon the reloading section here and decided to stop by and say hello. Here's my bench:

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I've got a Dillon XL650, a Lyman turret, and the Lee APP press that I just mounted yesterday.
 
That's serious! Nice!

Thank you! It certainly didn't start out that way. Here's the earliest picture I have of my reloading bench progression, and this is a couple upgrades from the my initial setup, which was just a press bolted to a cheap particle board desk.

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Not so much a "bench" but a place to make ammunition, a cabinet made of Black Walnut!
I inherited this after my Dad's passing 27+ years ago.

He acquired it from a widow around 1950 according to my Mom. I am assuming it may have been a mentor of his since he purchased it and its contents.

The story goes that after Dad got it to his humble abode, going through the drawers he found two handguns under other stuff, hidden away.. He rightfully returned them to his friend's grieving (and grateful) wife.


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Here is the working area. An approximately 2 inch thick laminated solid walnut shelf pulls out of the center of the cabinet to mount press and powder measure. Small storage shelves around the inside. Old lamp above work area with a switch above the dummy loads on the lower left. The door even has a glass peep hole in it so if one closes the door, one can see if Tom Bodett left the light on for you.:cool:

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Now, you are probably wondering how this can be sturdy. I'll show you.........
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Plenty of storage for my use. Powder, dies and bullets on the left.
Drawers are full of heavy stuff.........Care to guess?

This is the right side storing primers, loaded ammo and assorted tools.

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All in a spare bedroom, with lots of storage in the built-in drawers in the knee walls.

This "bench" ( with an immeasurable amount of sentimental value ) has worked well for way over seventy years.
Boy ,sometimes I wish it could talk!
SHHHHH.....It has!

God Bless!, use care and wash your hands!

B.L.
 
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