What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Rifletom]

Cheers RT, I hope to bust some clays next week. Just picked up three cases of white flyers from Walmart for eight bucks each.

White Flyers; A desert delight!Fling 'em for shotguns, pick off the bits with a .22lr or one of the Henry's! I'm tellin' you, Desert Delight!

[Hatchdog]

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Yeah, I like to set some clays out at 100 or so and shoot them with an AR. Shoot the clays and then shoot the pieces until they are too small to see.

Oldbrass, that’s a very clever dryer box. Might have to steal that idea.

[Oldbrass]

Found primers and bullets arrived from Everglades ammo . Starting a marathon of a thousand 9mm. Have a box of range brass I've already processed . Plated 124 RN/4.8 gr unique. I was going to do 223 first but my case length trimmer took a dump, new one arrives next week

[Oldbrass]

Starting a 500 round batch of 45acp Berry's plated 230 RN 6.1gr unique..the 9mm is all done. Still waiting on 223 case length trimmer... It's amazing how much brass you accumulate when nobody has primers

[Oldbrass]

The 223 case length trimmer arrived, Rolling Rolling Rolling

[runnin n gunnin]

Which case trimmer did you buy OB?

[Oldbrass]

LEE

[Oldbrass]

The LEE trimmer.. cheap and works great. I put the cutter and length gage in the drill and secure the shell holder in my cheap harbor freight vice, this is actually quite a fast method. I've never seen or heard of one of these trimmers failing but this one the threads stripped so the gauge became lose. It did however trim at least 10,000 cases.

[runnin n gunnin]

Good to go !

[DsGrouse]

I am building a new one. The one I mentioned a few pages back kept getting the delivery date pushed back. So I have cobbled together a few things to make one.

Inch and half butcher block top from home depot, two 23/32's sheets of plywood. That will give me a top of 3" or thereabouts The legs are from amazon, and I think I will put a double layer shelf underneath.

The top will be 72x39 inches long.


I start work on it this afternoon, I am tied up in the mornings writing.

[Hatchdog]

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That’s going to look great.

Didn’t load anything but I did receive from Grafs and Sons two boxes of Hornady .312 85 gr XTP. Been looking for some all over and a few months ago put a notify me on Grafs and well, they did! Going to use these for 32 H&R mag and save my 100 gr for .327 Fed Mag. Shoot some…

[DsGrouse]

I've read a few posts in the past, and I have a workbench for my guns. So I put together a list of wants for my reloading bench.

72x36 was my size limit. I had ordered one online, but the benchtop and the legs were never delivered and the company kicked its delivery date out to march 30th. I revised my plan.

I picked up some workbench legs off amazon, some adjustable feet (due here the 12th), and bought some wood from home depot. I ordered some hardware from grainger to mount the benchtop to the legs. What I will end up with is 72 long by 39 wide, by 3 inches thick top. With a metal surround, a shelf with power strips, and a light.

Some photos of what I picked up and the progress made.
Two 23/32 pieces of plywood to be cut down to 72x39, and one 1.5" thick 72x39 birch butcher block.




Testing to see how I want the amazon leg placement to go. Don't mind the paint colors, we are about to repaint the downstairs.



Squaring up the legs with a brace and a piece of steel to mount on the first piece of sized plywood. My Springer is at the door hoping I will go out and toss her frisbee.
So the legs will be attached to that piece of 3/4 by 1/2 by 13 flat head bolts.






Not shown here as my phone died. Is the top butcher block attached to the first piece of 3/4 ply. I squared it up, and clamped it down. I pre-drilled and countersunk my holes in the ply to attach the two together.
This is the bottom of the butcher block.


I removed the butcher block and its mated 3/4 and predrilled the bottom 3/4 to line up with the second sheet.



The plan for today is to take the sheets back apart. Mount the middle section of 3/4 ply to the top, and then mount it to the leg section. From there I can mock up the installation of the side rails, shelf, power rail, and light. Once that is done, I have to clean my office to get the dam thing to fit in here. Once the office is clean, I will disassemble it all, bring it in and reassemble it. There is no way it will make it through the door, so it has to come into the room in parts.

During reassembly, the bottom of the butcher block will be glued to its mated section of plywood. The screws in the ply will hold it together tightly. when it is dry, the leg section of ply, and bottom of the butcher will be glued together using their screws to pull everything tight.

When all the parts are dry, I can mount the sides, shelf, and light. From there it is a matter of figuring out how I want to design the lower shelf system.

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I mocked up the upper portion of the bench today. I have a lot of finish work to do, but it is ready for me to clean my office tomorrow and move in here Saturday or Sunday.

How the legs are mounted. The 2/3 inch bolts hold the bottom 3/4 ply to the legs. the torx screws hold the middle ply to the bottom. (mostly there to keep things as square as possible while I get everything screwed together.


Here it is with the tops on and a couple of screws holding it in place.



I was able to mount the shelf and the light along with the side fairings. They are held in place. I don't want to drill the final holes until I have the whole thing glued together.

With the light on



And finally, the test fit with all the xxxx off of it for now.

[Oldbrass]

I like the overhead light and outlets it's very well thought out..nicely done

[Hatchdog]

Looking good DsGrouse.

[DsGrouse]

Test fitting of the bottom shelves.





So now it is time to take it all apart, clean my office. I am going to reassemble the bench in my office, gluing the three pieces of top wood together and holding it together while the glue dries.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

Loaded 3 boxes of 410's.

[DsGrouse]

Time to put it into my office. I had to move my other workbench around, but the space is ready. The butcher block and its piece of 23/32nd sheet of plywood. Because of a possible home renovation, I opted not to glue it right now. Figuring that the xxxx ton of screws will be enough to screw it together.



Screwing the bottom sheet of 23/32nd to the middle sheet with a sheet ton of screws.




The sides back and shelf with power and light put on.



Lower shelf put in place along with the rear stop for the upper shelf. Oh and fed ex is now 3 days late with my MF'n feet, hence the sliders under them.



The bench is in place with the lower shelf in.



My messy office, tomorrow will be a long day of clean up and sorting.


First coats of mineral oil on the workbench, I have about half a bottle left. Once this soaks in, I will put some paste wax over it.

[DsGrouse]

The shelf, the light and the side skirts are all GI.

I'll Link you to the sizes I bought, but they come in almost every size GI makes workbenches in.

The powered riser/shelf
https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/72-w ... ser?ref=10

The side skirts, and if you have a big shelf like mine, they are well worth the money. You can hang the little blue trays you see in the photos on the lip
https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/back ... -36?ref=10

The light is also from them and it is meant to be hung from bars that go over the workbench. I mounted it to the shelf with a couple of bolts and two L brackets.

https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/glob ... ord?ref=10

Here is the bench with 4 coats of minner oil/beeswax and the first coat of paste wax.






It is coming along well. I am waiting for the fricken leveling feet before I wrap this workbench up. I have a xxxx ton of stuff to go in it and on it. Right now I would say it weighs close to 500lbs. I am pretty sure I can get the leveling feet on, I'm f'd if I can't. LOL

[Headhog]

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Nice looking bench. If that can't handle the reloading job nothing will.

Paul

[DsGrouse]

Final post of the day.
The leveling feet arrived. Now all I have to do is clean up the massive mess I have made doing this project



I had thought that these feet would be static and locked to move in one direction only. They are not, you can tap them around to any direction you want them to move. Leveling them was a snap. Lifting the 500lb workbench not so much.






What they look like. Total overall height is 42 inches up to the deck. Just where I wanted it. as for the feet, they are rated for 1600lbs aside. I am not sure the legs of the workbench are rated that, but, it seems to work for now. Since GI, kept bumping my order, I had to make the call to go a different route than their bench legs.