[techmike]

Here's the deal. I have no room to set up a loading bench at my house. i want something tha I can use on the kitchen table and crank out a few hundred .45 acp. round a week. I need to be able to store it in a closet when not in use. Is ther such a beast? Help!!!

[halvey]

You really need a bench that is anchored to the floor and/or wall. Have a garage to use?

I know of someone who clamps things to his kitchen table to reload though.

[techmike]

Garage would be ideal, but no room there. Full of motorcycles. Darn the bad luck.:D

[Sheldon]

You want to be real careful reloading in the kitchen. The spend primer dust is some pretty nasty stuff and I would hate to see you get sick off the residues floating around. Better to find a different room than where food might be prepared. Just a thought.

My first reloader was a single stage Lee Challenger that I had mounted to a roll-away. I screwed a section of a solid core wood door to the top of the roll away to give me some area to work off of and mounted the press on that. It worked well and was mobile. Maybe something like that would work if you have a roll-away to work with.

[Zeke Menuar]

I have seen photo of folks that use a Black and Decker workmate. They make a fixture that is attached to the press and clamp the press into the workmate. Don't have any actual reviews of how this system works however.

[chink]

I have my Lee Challenger Press bolting into a ½" thick 8x8 piece of plywood. When I want to reload, I clamp it to a little table, and put weight on the back 2 legs of the table (typically, I just step on it… Its not a big table) and I start reloading. I can reload anywhere I have a ledge I can c-clamp the plywood to

[Art Eatman]

Make a "sandwich": Use two pieces of plywood maybe 6" x 12", protecting the surface of your table with something like shelf-liner stuck onto each piece. Get two heavy-duty C-clamps. Clamp the press onto the pieces of plywood with the table being the meat of the sandwich.

Art

[techmike]

Art's Sandwich idea sounds like a winner. Now for Question Number 2. Is there any particular press you guys reccomend for a newby? I have some stuff already. Scales, etc., But no press. Is there some sort of kit? I plan to handload for my .45 initially, but may want to load for other pistols later.

Thanks!!!

Mike

[BluesBear]

For a good single stage press that will last a lifetimne or two get either an RCBS Rock Chucker, Lyman Crusher or Hornady Lock-N-Load Classic.

No matter how advanced you get into reloading you'll always have a need/use for one of the above.

[Dave R]

I know of someone who clamps things to his kitchen table to reload though.

Me, too!

I do exactly as you describe. I clamp the press to the kitchen table, and store all my reloading gear in a rubbermaid tub. (Well, now its two rubbermaid tubs).

I deprime and resize outside on the picnic table, though. Both to keep toxic spent primer dust away from the food, and also because the kitchen table in a little light for the pressures of resizing.

No problem with seating, though.