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.
