How do you organize your reloading room?
How do you organize your reloading room?
Organize?
I've never been very organized because I have always been using a temporary location - a situation I'm trying to remedy. I intend to have everything in cabinets, drawers, and closets, so it doesn't look like a reloading room. I will either mount the presses on bench grinder stands, a Workmate, or a 2x6 that can be clamped to the bench.
I stick my Lee Hand Press in a tool box under the bed.
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Pretty close to my setup right now with my junk room. I'm in the middle of restructuring it and I'm gonna get a bench setup that can handle my 2 year old progressive press that I've never used.Originally Posted by shotgunshooter3
To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
I had a 30x40 foot garage built in 1999 and partitioned about 1/3 of it to be my man-cave/reloading room. So it's about 30' by 13'. Kitchen counter type cabinets (recycled) and home-made work benches run the length of the two longest walls. A buddy of mine is a contractor and he has donated counter tops and cabinets that came out of some of his re-model jobs. Almost nothing matches but that's fine with me as I'm color-blind anyway.
I've got a Dillon 550-B for most of my high volume handgun rounds. I also have a Lyman turret press, a Redding Boss single stage and the press that got me started in the 70's, an RCBS Jr. These 4 presses are mounted on 3 separate benches. I have two RCBS Uniflow measures, one with the large cavity cylinder in it and the other with the small cavity cylinder installed. Did I mention that I'm lazy? I also have a Lyman powder measure that's great for really tiny powder charges with it's really fine adjustment capability. My RCBS Chargemaster has only been in the shop for about two years.
Three MEC-600 presses are set up on plywood bases so that I can store them elsewhere when not needed or being used. One is set up for .410, one for 20 ga. and one for 12 ga. Once again, the laziness factor enters the equation. It seems a PITA to me to convert one to different gauges so I keep a different press set up and ready to go. My 16 gauge dies are in a box and have not been used in probably 20 year. Lazy?
Back before I moved to the country and lived in town and had to travel 30+ miles to get to a shooting range, I used to do all of my case prep work at home and haul the primed cases to the range along with a measure and RCBS scale and Lee hand-press to seat bullets. It was quite a PITA compared to my current set-up.
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Both. Use what you have.
I have built shelves, added a metal storage unit about 6'x3'x18" deep with doors, peg board, and have a old LONG puter desk plus a small kitchen table, and the converted truck parts bin/worktable that I converted into the actual loading bench has drawers and a shelf.
As to organize, BWHAHAHAHA, not even close.
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Since I was given the spare bedroom to use, I got a press mounted to a desk with a shelf above it for the scales. The components, tools and other odds and ends are kept in a couple of floor to almost ceiling cabinets. I find that I'm better at keeping things organized if they're put away somewhere.
Denny
My Gun Room was my sons bedroom before I converted it over. It is a 14x16 foot room with 2 benches setup in an L-shape on two walls, with open shelfs and 2 cabinets for storage. I use all RCBS equipment, and I have a flatscreen on the wall along with 2 recliners on one wall. I can "Hide" downstairs all day without socializing with anyone else in the house, as my wife sez. My old setup was on one wall in the laundrey room before this, so I really like this setup for over 5 years now. I am a neat freak so everything is organized and in its place, with nothing just sitting out, I have 2 grandsons that like to hang out in the GunRoom with me so I don't want them playing with anything if I stepout to go to the bathroom. I have a solid core entry door with a dead bolt on the GunRoom and only my son and I have the keys, my wife can't even get in there if I am not around.. I know others may have better setups, but this works great for me.----Riflemann
Organized?
In a cluttered manner maybe
Ernie
"If you think you are perfect, just try walking on water."
Ernie's man cave.Organized?
In a cluttered manner maybe
Lord, make me fast and accurate. Let my aim be true and my hands faster than those who would seek to destroy me. Grant me victory over my foes and those that wish to do harm to me and mine. But Lord, if today be the day that you call me home, let me die in a pile of empty brass.
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That is a disgusting picture
The other side of the room does not look as good as these two pics though
Ernie
"If you think you are perfect, just try walking on water."
I put kitchen cabinets in my Man Cave along with some wire shelving units. They work out pretty well for me.
... I'll need to start a new thread for advice on the Reloading room
To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
when i actually get around to getting more guns shooting more and getting reloading stuff again, it will be all in locked wall cabinets as i have small kiddies and the smallest climbs everything
I have a small area about 3.5x8 feet that I have a bench I built from a 2x10 shelf, I added a bench top from a drafting table and called it good. The area is framed by a steel shelf, steel cabinet for my hunting cloths/gear, my safe and the short cabinet freezer for my game. A swing arm lamp, a little peg board on the steel shelf and the back of my car work bench and I'm enclosed on three sides. I use a single stage press for everything so the small space works fine. You can't see my loading/hunting area when the garage door is open which is very important where I live.
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Ahhhh. So I ain't the only one that "recycles" those...
Most of mine is on open shelves. It's organized, kinda.
My reloading room is an office trailer 12 feet long and unfortunately is also acting as storage so it is cluttered.
When I get all my reloading equipment to North Dakota I have a small building that will be a dedicated shop / reloading room.
I use open shelves, cabinets and a Craftsman work bench with drawers.
I don't have everything in one room. However I do have a lot of it in the dresser (I called it a chest of drawers before, but it's not) that is now my loading bench-table. I keep bullets, powder, primers and dies in the drawers, along with my case trimmer and other case prep tools. However, as I mentioned that I carry my charge master into the next room which is the kitchen and set it up on the table and throw my powder charges. Then I bring the charged cases back in the laundry room to seat bullets. I have my Case tumbler in my bed room closet and I plug it in the wall socket there and vibrate-tumble the cases there. I don't want to put that in the laundry room because it takes up too much space. I actually do my case prep and priming (I have a Lee Auto Prime tool) in my bed room on my desk after I size the cases in the laundry room. Yeah I would love to have everything in one room, but this old house isn't really big enough for that. I make do and the key to it is paying attention to what I'm doing. Admittedly things can get mixed up moving from one room to another.
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