Reloading set up pics

[Stan Hillis]

I enjoy seeing how others do stuff, and the ideas they have come up with to make jobs easier. When i got my first progressive press many years ago I wanted to have a stable platform for it, but not permanent. IOW, I wanted to be able to reload in the same place with all my different presses. They say necessity is the mother of invention, and here is the result of my needs. I had the big woodworking vise on the bench front already, so the ideas kinda sprang from it.

I started with a piece of 2 X 10 as a base, and constructed bins on either end of it for the hulls and wads. I bolt the press to that base and clamp it in my woodworking vise on the front of my very heavily built workbench. To strengthen it even more I cut a 2 X 6 to the right length to wedge under the threaded rod on the big vise. It is then rock solid, just as much so as if the press were bolted to the top of the workbench. The second pic shows what I did on the back of the hull bin to catch the loaded shells as they roll off the press. The shell falls off the carrier plate, onto the angled diverter, then falls gently through the space between the front of the workbench and the rear of the hull bin into a three gallon bucket which hangs from two eye hooks on the front of the workbench.

This all works very well and allows me to load at the "casual speed" of about a box every three minutes. I pushed myself once and loaded nearly 700 in one hour, including time to reload the powder and shot containers, and the primer tray, but don't have the need to load that fast anymore. The bins will hold about 120 hulls and probably close to two hundred wads.

Hope this helps someone who needs to have a reloading space that can be quickly and easily dismantled and moved, or switched out to another gauge press.

[Dean Romig]

Great setup Stan! Thanks!





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[Mike of the Mountain]

Cool set-up Stan. I had to build a loft in my shop and constructed about 50' of benches to set up all the shotgun and metallic and BP gear!! Your way is much less expensive!!

[Billy Gross]

https://parkerguns.org/forums/attach...1&d=1676223209

I mostly reload 28 Ga - I built this for that purpose. I can change gauges when I want to load something else.The unit is on wheels, so I can move it for cleaning the shot on the floor. Billy

[Stan Hillis]

I like that, Billy.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Billy Gross

https://parkerguns.org/forums/attach...1&d=1676223209

I mostly reload 28 Ga - I built this for that purpose. I can change gauges when I want to load something else.The unit is on wheels, so I can move it for cleaning the shot on the floor. Billy

Shot on the floor!! That's unheard of!!

[Stan Hillis]

Mike, when I got my first single stage press many years ago I clamped it to my office desk, which was in an extra bedroom. The bedroom had shag carpet (remember that stuff?). After a few accidents spilling no. 8s onto the carpet all was ready for my wife to make an unsuspecting pass over it with her high powered vacuum cleaner. You've got to hear several ounces of no. 8s going into a vacuum cleaner to appreciate the tongue lashing I received.

It wasn't long until the re-loading was re-located .......... to a shop.

[Dean Romig]

A dear friend threw a 25# bag of 8 shot over his shoulder and proceded across his living room and down the beautiful hardwood staircase to his reloading room in his beautifully finished basement. You guessed it… he niticed the bag had gotten considerably lighter but it was too late when he discovered why. Probably half of the bag of shot had been trickling out the whole way to his gunroom. This happened 6 ir 8 years ago and I’ll bet the vacuum still goes klink or ting every now and then.





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[Billy Gross]

My wife gets pissed every time she finds a piece of shot upstairs. Once in a while, I pick up a piece in my shoe and it comes out upstairs. Billy

[Mike of the Mountain]

We've all done it! My worst wasn't a shot spill but I didn't realize somehow I bumped the powder hopper on my Spolar and it moved. Prevented the full charge of powder from dropping. After about 300-400 shells I noticed the hopper was out of place. Never knew when during those 300-400 I bumped it so it took a while to figure out which shells were "light"! Fool me once.....