horsemen61
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Ok guys I have several die sets and I am wanting to build a wood shelf system to hold them question how would you go about it?
Not to be condensending, but if you're asking that question, this might be a bit too advanced a project to tackle.9mmemiphany how does one go about making something like that I like the looks
Do I? You have three guesses, the first two don't count.Offhand ,so do you have a fire arm for each die ?
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It's an unwritten law of hand-loading that the dies you need will always be on the bottom of the stack. Which is why when I had my loading room built we installed drawers under the bench with the die boxes stored label end up and easy to find. Each drawer holds forty die sets in a compact and easy to access space, as shown in attached photo.
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So I went a different way entirely. I got a couple or three full sized shelving units from Home Depot. 4 shelf I think. Assembled them and bolted them together side by side. Then for each die set I got a Stearalite shoe storage box from WM. I put the die set, my Lee length trim parts, and any other things for that caliber in there along with some dummy rounds to set up the seating die and function check a firearm. Some even have the partial bullet boxes there. A P-touch and the box is Identified. I can stack those boxes 3 high on a shelf and have everything to load a specific caliber in one handy box as well as a place to put it when done. Full boxes of bullets and containers of brass in the bottom shelf for stability. Just another option. The shelf units cost ~$15 each and the shoe boxes ~$3.25 each when I did it. YMMV
Duh. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks for the idea!... I have done the same with one pound working powder jugs, the Alliant tall jugs don't fit in my space so I transfer the powder to a empty Hodgdon type jug and carefully peal the label off the original jug to put on the new jug. I purchase most of my powder in 5 or 8 pound containers now but I kept a hoard of 1 pound Hodgdon jugs so I have a bottle when I get a new powder.