Reloading benches

Stephen Duden

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Hey everyone. It’s time to build a new reloading bench to accommodate some new equipment. Anyone willing to share pics or plans on benches they’ve built and liked?
 
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I have built a couple of these benches, 48"x24". I used 3/4" plywood for the top and shelf and trimmed the edge with a piece if 3/4 x 1 1/2 pine. The one I built for my wife to do scrap booking and crafts on, I painted gloss white, mounted a piece of peg board up the back and then put a single 48" florescent fixture at the top. Mine for reloading is not painted. I have a Dillon 450 mounted on the right front corner and a single stage Lee press on the right side for depriming. The shelf underneath contains bins of brass and several full 50 cal ammo cans to weigh it down. On this one instead of peg board, it is 1/4" plywood with some simple shelves made of 1x6's that hold all my dies, change over kits for the Dillon, reloading manuals and various other tools. It also has a single 48" florescent fixture that is wired to an outlet box with switch on the back board so I can easily turn it on. If it were cleaned up, I would take a couple of pictures.

http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/workshop/bench/below20xl.html
 
I’ve assembled two of these. You will have around $70 in it total and you can do it by yourself in 2-3 hours. Half that time if you have a helper.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Simpson-Strong-Tie-Workbench-or-Shelving-Hardware-Kit-WBSK/205177374




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Double like. Very easy to put together and exceptionally strong.

I used these kits to build an L-shaped bench in my man cave. I climb on the lower shelf to get stuff off of cabinets, the bench is not bolted to the wall and is unfazed by my 275# climbing all over it.

I built another without the back splash part and put it on coasters. It rolls around my garaged as a 2-sided cleaning and reloading bench.
 
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I went the easy route when I got started, I bought the Harbor Freight wood working bench. Always thought I would get around to building something better (and still may) but it has worked so well that I don't have any immediate plans to change. I mount my presses to plywood plates, and use carriage bolts through the bench-dog holes with wingnuts underneath, so I can take the presses off or move them around. With the bench pushed firmly up against the wall, it does not move.

This is a photo of it shortly after I moved it out of my spare bedroom and into my new (at the time) reloading shack.
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I just use a 6' folding table. I mount my presses/tools to a board and C-clamp whatever I'm using to the table. That was supposed to be a temporary setup 8 years ago...
 
This is the one I built.

https://sites.google.com/site/grassrocketranch/the-nrma-reloading-bench

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