Thanks.

Drifty:

My bad...I guess what my wife teases me about not knowing my right from left is true. I meant to ask about the little orange press to the RIGHT. (OK, think I got it right that time!) Thanks.

OK I m going to add 3 photos. First 2 will be my current setup and the last will be my first try with a bench that is way over done!

This one is looking away from the barn door
and yes I m in a horse stall!

This next photo is looking at the barn door and the blankets have been removed and I have a plywood door now. Over the last few days its been too cold to get out there at -5 to -40 out there!


This next photo is my my first attempt with a bench I built that is way over done for table thickness and all that fun stuff. The box in the back is encased fan for casting. I will take new pix of that soon.

These cases are not new by a long shot. I had resized them then washed them in hot water and soap to get the case sizing lube off. Normally I use a Birch Casey case cleaner but am out. After a night of drying in a mesh bag in my wood burning furnace room I put them in the tumbler for a couple of hours



One of the problems I discovered right off was to always decap first or you break a bunch of decapping pins. With RCBS you can get them free but why keep changeing the things when decapping first stops the breakage.
Another problem is the kerrnels of rice will get stuck in the flash hole. Thats what breaks the decapping pins.



Since the primer pocket needs a cleaning I find scrapeing the kernnels out of the flash hole isn't much extra work.

Tried the corn cob stuff and didn't like it at all. Would get stuck inside of 30 caliber cases so you had to dig it out. Could have just been some bad stuff as others do use it. Was complaining to a gun smith one day at his shop so he told me about rice. That is where I learned about it, been useing it for real close to 50 years now.

Al

Using rice never passed my thoughts to use. Although I had thought of sand, but that would erode the cases too much and too fast. I have tried corn cob and had not liked it. It seemed to scratch the cases too much for my liking and wouldn't clean the inside of the smaller cases. I currently use crushed nutshells. Every now and again I will use the Lyman recharge liquid to ade in the proses.

This is my little cubby hole of the house.
My powder and primers are all in a cabinet right there by the bow.
The bench on the left is where I do all my work to my firearms. (archery also) All my cleaning supplies are on the shelf above and patches/jags/brushes and stuff are in the drawer under.

(it's a little messy in the picture, usually the room is well orginized before I do anything in there)

I used to have my reloading equipment set up in my garage, but there's no room in our current home, soooo, I bought a folding craftsman workbench and no more reloading in the cold or heat of the garage! No complaints from the wife and best of all I can reload while watching TV and the kids are much more involved.

450/400
Where's your sons eye protection?

I was actually doing the loading, that's a staged picture...you caught me.

Ok,

Enough of all the "fancy" pix!




Here's a couple of pictures of my shop. Of course it's usually not this neat, I spruced it up for the pictures!

(NOT)!












No teasing my "mess" now, OK?

quote:

Originally posted by Slowpoke Slim:
Ok,

Enough of all the "fancy" pix!




Here's a couple of pictures of my shop. Of course it's usually not this neat, I spruced it up for the pictures!

(NOT)!












No teasing my "mess" now, OK?

I must agree and admit, I spent a while cleaning out my shop for my pic! But then again how can you not clean when you move your loading area?

I like the marker board...good idea. Thanks for sharing your pictures.

In my basement, in the "Man" room.

Fast Ed

Almost finishe with new reloading bench.

Last picture was taken with phone here are some better pictures.

Interesting to see everyone's sanctuary. My wife calls mine "the black hole", cause when I go in it I get swallowed up and don't come out.





And finally (I love this side).



The View from the window out of the back side of the Black Hole.




Good clean fun! All of it!!!

My new room in the basement. Not quite done moving in yet, just finished painting and building the workbench last weekend. Plan on hanging some better lighting soon. Kinda small but this is great compared to the last setup I had in the cold garage.

Here's part of mine.

Here's mine-- just an old dinner table we bought back in 1964, a Rockchucker press and a few other things...

I have just about completed my new set-up. I need to move my case trimmers and some of the small items. I snapped the pictures before it becomes too cluttered. Built the bench, drawers, and shelves myself.

I'll try to get some 'organized' pics up... lol... This is after doing a lot of test loads... http://forums.accuratereloadin...2511043/m/4581080011

My little nook in front of the truck in the garage. Used the old kitchen cabinets and countertop from after a remodel for the set up. I have my press mounted on a Black and Decker work table so it will be portable; I take it to the range sometimes. Small but it works!

Dose anyone have a bench they swage there own bullets off of? I d like to see your set up! I m looking into it so thought this would be a good place to ask.

heres is my new set up

quote:

Originally posted by M16:
Here's part of mine.

Very Impressive!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the good post.
I am about to move my repoading activity into larger quarters and am researching what others have done.

quote:

Originally posted by Brian Milner:
heres is my new set up

I love this set up! Close to this is what I was thinking when I finly buy my own house.

quote:

crshelton
new member

Posted 19 June 2009 19:44 Hide Post
Thanks for the good post.
I am about to move my repoading activity into larger quarters and am researching what others have done.

Never hirt, thats really how I live life. I will send better photos when I get a chance of my set up. My mother has a old horse stall in our barn I use. You really didnt get a chance to see how the hole place is set up from my photos. If my trapping/ADC work pays off I will have a better place to reload then this.
Keep up the good work and load them if you got them.

Here's my setup.

I liked looking at al these set ups been reloading since 1980 one change i will make now because of ted thorn a fire ext. will try to post pictures of my large controled mess

Of all these pics only two guys have the same setup as me. My bench is a perpetual mess.

PoppaW, which 2 are they?

Here's mine...not near a elaborate as many on this thread, but it works for me.

Bob

Here is a crappy pic of my gun shop loading room.

Just finished building a new bench.Now I gotta get all my stuff moved to it.It ain't fancy but it works.
http://i243.photobucket.com/al...dreloader/Bench2.jpg

quote:

Originally posted by oldreloader:
Just finished building a new bench.Now I gotta get all my stuff moved to it.It ain't fancy but it works.
http://i243.photobucket.com/al...dreloader/Bench2.jpg

I like it! You should come by and build me one. ;-)

Here are a few pictures of my reloading bench as it is right now!



My Reloading Bench


LEE Loadmaster



RCBS Rockchucker IV





Powders



I load .223 Rem., 9mm Luger, 45 LC, 30-30 Win., 30-06 Sprg., 32 ACP, 40 S&W, 44 Spcl, 44 Mag and 45 ACP



RCBS Uniflow in the foreground, Lead ingots in the middle, and bullet and ingot molds & melting pots in the background. Also... a few of my radio scanners for my listening pleasure while loading.



SAA in .45 LC Lots of fun with black powder and cast bullets. CHEAP SHOOTING!!



LEE Pro 4-20 20lb melting pot.



My Vibratory Case Cleaner - I use corn cob treated with Flitz.



I am building a new gun room and I am sure everyting will get rearranged as I move it all there.

OK... before everyone gets on to me, I do not cast in this room. I only melt and cast outside in a well ventilated area. Also, I do not run my tumbler in there either. It gets done outside too.

Jerry

quote:

Originally posted by James Kain:
PoppaW, which 2 are they?

Well, you mean other than mine, right?

What IS very interesting is seeing just how many single-stage presses there are in these pictures. Just goes to show that simple still works good!

Here is my table - before the press installation, it looks much more occupied now; as a matter of fact I use it as my office at the shop.