Post em up! Let's see those reloading benches

[engnerdan]

I plan on removing the pine junk from the top and replacing it with two 50"x16" sections of 3/4" plywood glued and screwed to the top.

I would get the nicer and much more expensive finished grade or maybe it is cabinet grade plywood. It has many more layers to it, a much nicer finish on one side and is much stiffer.

[OldmanFCSA]

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[yuppiejr]

Good info, thanks gents - I'm assuming this wobbly bottom is not typical of Lyman products or cast presses in general? I have no angle grinder but will take a look at my neigbor's garage after work and see what we can come up with, epoxy bedding sounds like a good and slightly less destructive option as well if grinding doesn't pan out. I'll keep an eye out for some angle steel to use to "triangulate" the press - I assume the principal is the same as glass or aluminum bedding a rifle to eliminate flex/movement of the action in the stock.

[OldmanFCSA]

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[yuppiejr]

I ended up replacing the white pine 1x8's with 15 ply 3/4" furniture grade plywood gorilla glued to the base layer and upgrading the mounting hardware to 1/2" carrige bolts (from 3/8") which are as wide as i can go and still fit the square portion of the bolt head in the press mounting holes. I also moved the reinforcing 2x4" directly under the press for additional vertical support. At this point the only flex I'm seeing in the press is actually the press itself which seems to indicate it's as good as it's going to get without a heavier duty unit.

I mounted a 1/2" PVC drain tube under my Lee decap station to route spent primers into a garbage pail next to the bench which was an immediate hit with the kids. I ended up showing my 3 and 4 year olds how to run the decap press and after a few test runs they were taking turns decaping or watching the spent primers run down the clear tube and into the garbage bin... knocked out about 100 cases before I had to tear them away for bedtime.

[OldmanFCSA]

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[gyrfalcon]

What, you guys don't have polished granite reloading benches? Amateurs!

[OldmanFCSA]

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[Seismic Sam]

yuppiejr has a wobbly bottom?? Shouldn't this be in The Basement??

[Seismic Sam]

What, you guys don't have polished granite reloading benches? Amateurs!

Actually, I do !

I have a 24" remnant that was cut off another top, with 2 Lee presses mounted. When wifey allows, I clamp to low table with c-clamps and resize pistol brass in family room while watching TV.

The polished granite kinda causes glare though so may have to paint it with flat black paint.

Then it will look just like your junky table top!

Is the bottom side of the granite top also shiny?? Generally they won't surface both sides to a mirror finish...

[yuppiejr]

yuppiejr has a wobbly bottom?? Shouldn't this be in The Basement??

Sshhhh, my wife thinks all these after dark runs to meet people in parking lots with cash in hand is all about trading gun/reloading stuff...

My reloading bench, on the other hand, is stiffer than a young bull locked in a pen full of prize heffers on a Saturday night.

[danscrapbags]

Here's mine. We will be moving sometime this year so it will be back to the drawing board again.

[Dutch]

As you can see on page 9 I'm using a standard Craftsman workbench: My wife's requirement was it had to look "nice" in our 2nd bedroom. My requirement was "not in the basement" as I do not want to deal with humidity. Been there, done that: No laundry of any kind in the same room as reloading/guns. That said I'm kind of amazed as in Holland all we have for structure is concrete and brick. But living in an apartment I used a slack remover to remove the wobble of the bullet feeder and case feeder by linking them to the wall and it's stable like a rock, even on the carpet:

[supply4demand]

550B set up in 4 calibers, Press Monitor and almost every Dillon accessorie

[stesch_s10]

looks good