First of June, coffees on

[Silver Creek Slim]

Supposed to be ours, you stole it.

Hailing now.

Slim

[pony express]

More homegrown salad tonight.  Starting to get tomatoe blossoms..... won't be long I will be humming Guy Clark songs

Getting more lettuce than we can use. Tomatoes not even close, did our own starts this year, and as usual, probably should have started them a couple of weeks sooner. Still have to go to the local fruit and veg market and buy the Mennonite tomatoes. Kind of pricey, but taste more like a tomato than anything from the grocery store.

Do any of Y'all have plans for a simple reloading bench or know where ti find them, I'm thinking about redoing what I have to move the rest of my reloading gear into my basement/Garage. Thanks.

Can't help with plans, Major. Mine is a simple built in bench of two 2X10s across one side of my shed, with 2X4 cross bars and doubled 2X4s for two legs in the center part.

[litl rooster]

Do any of Y'all have plans for a simple reloading bench or know where ti find them, I'm thinking about redoing what I have to move the rest of my reloading gear into my basement/Garage. Thanks.

My last one in Virginia was a 2x6 held up by 2 saw horses. And a old book shelf.



Pony Express - am growing in containers- going to plant more lettuce this week.

[River City John]

Major Sterner,
lots of people use one of those folding Craftsman (or similar) woodworking benches. Very sturdy and can clamp press onto it.

RCJ

[The Trinity Kid]

Greetings all.

Today was entertaining.  I washed a C-130.  Or it washed me. One or the other.  And I helped jack a plane up to change the tires.

--TK

[litl rooster]

What do they do with the old tires?

[Major E A Sterner]

RCJ, I need to have it large enough to mount a RCBS Rockchucker, A Hornady Pro-Jector, a Dillon 650 , and 2 MEC sizemasters, a 20 & 12 gauge. Plus my casting sizing equipment and gun smithing tools. Right now I have some of my gear in a shed that is 28 years old and starting to fall apart and some in my Basement/Garage.

[Major 2]

Took a pair of heavy duty steel folding legs and mounted a top made up with 3 sheets (thick) of 2X4' Birch ply and is screwed to the wall.
It holds two presses ( a Lyman Turret and a Lyman Spartan )... It leaves me a goodly amount of work space.
I have Lee Turret on a similar but smaller table on the reverse wall.

[Delmonico]

Mine, the big long lag screws renforce the place the press goes.

[Major 2]

Some good ideas here too

https://www.pinterest.com/craftantix/reloading-bench-plans/

[litl rooster]

Coffee is up-


Del I swear I have that same chair.
Major 2 there is some really good ideals there

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Thanks for the coffee.

Ditches are full.

'Tis 64 and sunny. Dew point 62. High of 87.

Slim

[Major 2]

I hope it gives the good Major some ideas . my area is compact but still quite workable.
The antique Spartan press is used just to flair 30 Cal. brass.
The Lyman Turret is set up for 30/40 Krag & 8MM Lebel

I use the quick change Die holders on the Lee Turret for all else I load. 

[pony express]

Still do all my loading on a Lyman Spartan. First and only press, bought it somewhere around '75-75. Mail order from Gander Mountain. Before that it was just .38, .357 with a Lyman nutcracker, and a set of Lee dippers.

[Johnny McCrae]

Do any of Y'all have plans for a simple reloading bench or know where ti find them, I'm thinking about redoing what I have to move the rest of my reloading gear into my basement/Garage. Thanks.

When we moved to Florida, I had to downsize my reloading area. I bought a Tool stand from Harbor Freight for around $33.00. I use the LEE Bench Plate system to switch between my LEE Classic Turret press and my MEC Shotgun Shell press. The tool stand is easy to move around and surprisingly, it's very sturdy. I keep it in my storage unit and move it inside when I reload.

[Major 2]

The Spartan was my first press too.... a gift from a now passed friend.

It was missing a pivot pin , calling Lyman it seems they no longer supported the the units parts list.
All they had in stock was the handle. I fabricated the missing pin from drill stock.
I bought the Lyman Turret II  after trying one out, the idea being not have to change dies for each step.

I'm not into production , so a $600 Dillon was not my cuppa....

The LEE was no a brainer @ about $100 NIB ,  after Dakota Ike and John Saffen  recommended it..

[Major E A Sterner]

Thanks for the suggestions, I found one that would work with a few modifications, but when I priced out the material it turns out I can buy a Harbor Freight workbench for a lot less and modify the top to mount the presses to it. Never thought that would be the case.

[Delmonico]

That RCBS jr I bought used in 1980 broke the handle about 2000 they didn't have a handle for a first generation press so they sent me all the improved linkage and ram free since the casting is the same.

[Major 2]

You can't beat product backed service like that !   

[Delmonico]

The best one was in the late 90's, ordered a Lee die set to size bullets on a regular press, got home from the gun store and the ram was missing in the package.  Was about 4 on Friday,but called them, the lady said everyone in the warehouse was gone.  I said I could call back Monday, she said no, wait, Dick just hung up his phone, he can help and put me through.   He laughed took my name and address and said they still trusted him with a key and he'd drop it off at the post office on the way home.   It got there Monday.