Ashamed of my Reloading Bench

Who cleans your reloading room/bench?

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Mine are portable. Every room is a reloading room in our house. That goes for the front porch in nice weather, too.
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I keep my powders, primers, and bullets in boxes on top of boxes strewn all over the storage room where we keep spare sewing machine parts, my jeweler's lathe and drill stand, various books that don't fit any other collection, etc. A narrow walk-path separates junk from treasure. :D:eek::oops:
 
jebova2301 said:
"A cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind." If that is the case, what does an empty desk imply???

I haven't seen most of my reloading bench in like a year. Eventually, I will clean it off again. Eventually........
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An empty desk is not the same as an uncluttered one. Your logic train is sound though.
 
markr6754 said:
I have no excuse! Too many irons in the fire between finishing my latest AR, cutting down .223Rem cases, and replenishing my empty ammo boxes...and some rearranging to have better access to my powder and primers.

Anyway, this is disgusting and I need a swift kick to get things tidy again.

Sharing to ensure I’m held accountable.
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Mine has never looked that organized. You can bet I'm not show that picture to my wife.....
 
__steve__ said:
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This is a basic one here
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Those are some serious looking rounds. The photography is outstanding too.
 
Oh that doesn’t look that bad. Cluttered maybe, but I’m sure you know what all’s what.

mine is right alongside my gear head stuff, and in the middle of a project in can get pretty rough. But I keep it gun related on the reloading bench...
 
My loading bench is also my everything else bench, and I have lots of hobbies. So my loading bench is essentially useless. I now do all my loading in front of the living room fireplace, with a tong tool.
 
"A cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind." If that is the case, what does an empty desk imply???
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:rofl:

At one old job I had a boss who asked my why my desk wasn't clean like one of my co-workers.
I replied he is cleaning his desk I am keeping are servers up and running, which would you rather have me do first?
 
For almost 50 years,I ate bag lunches with greasy nasty shop hands.... never thought a whole lot about it. Nowadays,I rarely eat off anything other than Noritake china and 150 y.o. silver.

So it is with my handloading room.... there's a reason it's not part of our shop. There's a reason I want it purty dang neat. There's a reason it's in a quiet place.

Shifting gears a bit; horizontal surfaces(benches) when mixed with any,hands on type of activity..... I swear,it's like a fungus or mould out of a "B" sci-fi movie. Albeit junk and clutter. It starts to multiply and take over. There is no one pat answer to it. Takes some real soul searching to understand yourself,and what it's gonna take to "reprogram" your brain.

Good luck with your project.

Edit to add; even the dog likes good china

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HowieG said:
That setup is really something. I assume that you don't have any other hobbies.
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Recreation and tournament bass fisherman. Avid catfisherman. Hunt year round. Love to read. Twist wrenches with my buddies. Woodworking when I can. Refinish or repurpose furniture. If you look closely, those reloading benches are actually repurposed upright pianos. E9EE3B63-A08A-42B8-922C-4151433C5002.jpeg 339D35FF-439C-4454-968A-EA83670BB417.jpeg Display centers made from said pianos. I work 2 jobs and am a full time stepdad to 3 girls. The reloading is just something my father and I got into back in 2013 as a way to spend more time together. It got a little out of hand. We just buy a jug or few pounds of powder here, couple thousand primers there, find good sales on bullets and buy them. Just bought 500 90gr Speer .277 bullets last night. $0.17/bullet. We both have 270’s (an FN Mauser and a Stainless Ruger M77) that shoot them so well it’s ridiculous. I’d post a pic of just our excess primers. But given the current shortage. Some people would think I’m just rubbing it in. And I’m not. We learned our lesson in the last panic.vowed never again. And since then, we stocked up and kept stocking. Now, while so many are scrambling, we’re shooting. Those ammo cans in the first pic, bottom right, are full. And that’s only about 1/3 of what we have loaded. The rest is in those closets I mentioned along with the excess powder and primers. You’d be surprised how much you can acquire in a year if you just commit $100-$200 a check and you shop around. It (obviously) adds up over time. But we still load every bullet by hand. We weigh every charge of powder. Nothing is done progressive.
 
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entropy said:
Several projects going on at once;
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That's my problem as well.

My bench(s) take up biggest part of my 15x 30 room. But between knife sharpening, circuit board/ dash cluster repair etc, restoration work, and chainsaw repair.... there may be anything in my way. Ive had everything from old cabinet style radios to blown up husqy in my way.

I also reload when I HAVE to so I can shoot. Not for fun. Lol. I wish I enjoyed it like some here do.
 
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