Benches, Chair, Stool - Reloading

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Walkalong, that appears to be identical to the HON bank tellers chair (~$400). I have one I bought for $10 at an auction of surplus equipment from a bank merger. I use mine at my welding tables because of the range in height adj. I wish I would have bought another for my reloading bench.
I don’t know, work was throwing it away (we toss a lot of good stuff), and it was comfortable, so I brought it home.
 
I like to do smithing and polishing on the floor, like one of those Turkey back room manufacturing houses. Keeps the gunk away from my presses and I can clean up easier.
 
believe it or not, I've gone through just about everything in this photo in the last couple months. first real house clean out since the 10 years we've been here. I ordered some better shelving, not to replace that, for another area - just to clean up all the boxes on the floor there and get it back to open space. that, maybe a rolling tool car, and maybe raise up that press a foot or so and get a decent adjustable stool, I think will make this area functional - or at least more usable that it is now.

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and a picture of my very manual process. this is just sizing and de priming 9mm. I just grab a handful out of a box and drop them into the cover of the lube pad. I guess you don't need to with the Hornady die, but - it sure makes the arm run easier to lightly lube every 5th or so case. Resize, flip the finished case into the box, when the cover of the lube pad is empty - just grab another handful out of the box and repeat. From the box on the bench there, they go back into the tumbler, then into a container where they'll just sit until I get around to loading some.

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I have another press sitting on the bench there - one of the ones you can put a set of dies in, and I think you manually rotate it to set up the die, well - I'm not really exactly sure how it works. At some point I'd like to get them both mounted more permanent somewhere, here or another bench, don't know. Do people prefer the presses mounted kind of next to one another, or maybe if I kept them in this space putting the other one at the other end of this bench would be better. I'm probably never going to use them at the same time.
 
believe it or not, I've gone through just about everything in this photo in the last couple months. first real house clean out since the 10 years we've been here. I ordered some better shelving, not to replace that, for another area - just to clean up all the boxes on the floor there and get it back to open space. that, maybe a rolling tool car, and maybe raise up that press a foot or so and get a decent adjustable stool, I think will make this area functional - or at least more usable that it is now.

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and a picture of my very manual process. this is just sizing and de priming 9mm. I just grab a handful out of a box and drop them into the cover of the lube pad. I guess you don't need to with the Hornady die, but - it sure makes the arm run easier to lightly lube every 5th or so case. Resize, flip the finished case into the box, when the cover of the lube pad is empty - just grab another handful out of the box and repeat. From the box on the bench there, they go back into the tumbler, then into a container where they'll just sit until I get around to loading some.

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I have another press sitting on the bench there - one of the ones you can put a set of dies in, and I think you manually rotate it to set up the die, well - I'm not really exactly sure how it works. At some point I'd like to get them both mounted more permanent somewhere, here or another bench, don't know. Do people prefer the presses mounted kind of next to one another, or maybe if I kept them in this space putting the other one at the other end of this bench would be better. I'm probably never going to use them at the same time.
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Hi...
I have three benches in my reloading room.
One is a metal framed unit that is three feet long and about 18" deep. The bench top is 1/2" plywood with two 1/2" pieces of MDF glued and screwed together...very heavy and bolted to the wall. I use it for my RockChucker and APS priming tools.
The other two benches ate an 8' and 4' of the type that Sam's Club sells with the maple tops. Very heavy and solid...both are bolted to the walls. One has two LNL presses permanently mounted on it, the other has a RockChucker Supreme mounted on it for rifle reloading.
I have two stools with back rests in the reloading room and one leather office chair for seating.

There is another 8' bench top along the other wall that is stacked high with all kinds of reloading stuff and a large amount of material related to building plastic and resin models of armored fighting vehicles. I haven't actually built a model in more than ten years or longer.
 
Hey Film495, if money is not object, then you should check out ULINE Supply. I found high Work Stools with arm rest on page 242, model number H-4823 with casters and they also have shop stools Model #H-4827 with back rest, no casters. They also have Heavy-Duty Packing Tables, modelH-8400 is the biggest at 96" x 36". Look them up online
 
Hey Film495, if money is not object, then you should check out ULINE Supply. I found high Work Stools with arm rest on page 242, model number H-4823 with casters and they also have shop stools Model #H-4827 with back rest, no casters. They also have Heavy-Duty Packing Tables, modelH-8400 is the biggest at 96" x 36". Look them up online

I just bought a pedestal style packing table, a couple of shelves that match the table, a couple of wire shelves, a bookcase and a chair from them. Most was made in the USA and seems to be well made. I'm actually in the process of getting my room in the new house squared away.
 
I mentioned 4 collators on my rail horizontal rail?I chose to buy a 3D printer for the price of one collator....and printed 4 for about $80 bucks each, including hardware, proximity switches and motors.

What kind of printer do you have? I have a CraftBot+ which doesn’t have the build volume or, I think, the dimensional accuracy to pull that print off. It looks great!

Also, where did you find the files? Or did you make your own?
 
Hey Lightman, take a few pictures when you get it set up or mostly set up!! I would like to see how you set up your loading stateion. Mine is my loading station and work bench combined with a steel plate for under my press, nothing moves. I am really interested in what you bought and how you set up the reloading station. Thanks. 74man
 
What kind of printer do you have? I have a CraftBot+ which doesn’t have the build volume or, I think, the dimensional accuracy to pull that print off. It looks great!

Also, where did you find the files? Or did you make your own?

My printer is a CR-10 version 2 which has a printing bed 300mm X 300mm X 400mm. Optioned with a self-leveling system, and a polypropylene bed. They have a direct drive version too called version 3, but I doubt that's needed unless you print flexible plastic things.

Files are downloadable from any of TylerR's posts where it says "downloads" with the stipulation that they are never merchandised. Self-use only. TylerR hangs out at:
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?354324-Making-that-Bullet-Collator/page150
The longest thread on Castboolits....150 pages. There are .stl files to 3D print parts for Collators, App presses, and even Bullet Feed dies. (that work better than many commercial ones)
 
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Hey Lightman, take a few pictures when you get it set up or mostly set up!! I would like to see how you set up your loading stateion. Mine is my loading station and work bench combined with a steel plate for under my press, nothing moves. I am really interested in what you bought and how you set up the reloading station. Thanks. 74man

Will do. I need to learn to post pictures anyway!
 
My printer is a CR-10 version 2 which has a printing bed 300mm X 300mm X 400mm. Optioned with a self-leveling system, and a polypropylene bed. They have a direct drive version too called version 3, but I doubt that's needed unless you print flexible plastic things.

I like Creality. They seem like a good company and I’ve heard great things about their printers. My CraftBot Plus is like four years old but still does an okay job. I’ve printed ammo boxes before that came out very nicely. And a ton of other stuff too, of course. But I’m thinking about getting another printer and the CR-10 is looking mighty nice from here.
 
I just bought a pedestal style packing table, a couple of shelves that match the table, a couple of wire shelves, a bookcase and a chair from them. Most was made in the USA and seems to be well made. I'm actually in the process of getting my room in the new house squared away.
I'll vouch for those tables, they are really built well, I've probably bought 10 of them over the years for the company I used to work for.
I bought the ones with the folding legs so I could get them through doorways and up and down stairs.
The folding legs doesn't take away from their rigidity.
 
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