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It's built like a tank. I got mine from a friends father-in-law who passed. He had been reloading since the 70's. There is a guy on ebay sells 8 position turretts for it. I'm thinking hard about buying one.
 
Coz, The changable boards are a great idea for your presses. I went with plates of 1/2 inch steel long enough to be bolted down on top of the bench about 10 inches back from the front edge and the plate hangs out about 2 inches. Then I put the bolt pattern of the differant presses on the plate and drilled and threaded the plate for 3/8 bolts. Not as fast as wing nuts but works good.
 
I spent a few years designing this in my head. Lots of light, casefeeder cords run through the support tubes and under the bench, primer drop tubes through the bench, beefed up cabinets that can hold primers and cases of bullets, ect...

The Spolar shotshell hydro press can knock out some serious amounts of ammo in a little time.

I have another 550, Co-Ax and 50 BMG reloader (feeding the Barrett and AI-50 with factory ammo isnt gonna happen) behind where this pic was taken. I need to get some new and better pics.

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Looking further down the bench to the 550s and 50 BMG press.

The 1050 on the left is set up to make 300 Whisper/Blackout.

Both the 550s have been tweaked to load precision rifle ammo, everything from 223 Ackley to 338 Lapua. The Prometheus powder measure/dispenser is accurate down to the single kernel of powder. Now if only I could tighten up the loose nut behind the scope. The only pistol calibers I load on them is 41 Mag and 454 Casull, all the other pistol calibers get loaded on the 1050s. Sad to say I might have more invested in toolheads than I do in 1050s.

The Forster Co-Ax press does not get much mileage these days. Its main use is pointing up bullets with a Whidden die and teaching people how to reload. The Co-Ax is a great press. My favorite single stage press.

Before I got my first 1050 about 15 years ago, I loaded on the RCBS Ammo-Master press on the end. It sucked so bad I almost threw it in the trash when the 1050 showed up. But I kept it for some reason. Turns out when you strip out all the progressive guts, it is a damn good 50 BMG press.

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The 1050 toolheads are mounted on delrin posts that a friend of mine made. They are mounted on drawer slides so they can slide out so I dont have to dig through the toolheads to get to a different caliber.

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That's not a reloading room, it's a reloading factrory. Love to see a video of the hydraulic loader in action. Very nice.
 
A few more additions...

I built this small sliding door cabinet to lock down my primers as my grandchildren tend to get curious about this stuff...
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I also built a locking door for one of the cubbyholes in the back of the bench for the powder. I was keeping this stuff in my safe, but I figured if there were an ignition... A small wooden bomb is better than a large steel bomb...:what:
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Full bench view of primer cab placement...
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Here's my humble bench- basic box design with MDF top. I've since added some old cabinets to the right for additional storage and workspace


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Here are the beginnings of my man cave/reloading room. The desk in the picture is 2'widex8'longx31'' high. (It is not attached to that wall, just pushed up against it)

The room will bee around 10x10 in a detached 30x30 garage, Exterior walls are insulated as will the walls I'm building. The final wall will end just around window in picture with door in that wall.

I have a rockchucker and 3 shotgun presses so far,

I plan on having a bench for working on guns/etc. Plan on trying my hand at building flyrods.
 
I am a little cramped on space, found the idea from a post on another forum. Measures approx. 36'' high, 36'' wide and 24'' deep. Piano hinge on the back and two window locks to keep it closed on the front. Folding lid is warped and needs to be replaced, but other than that I guess it turned out ok.

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Here's a photo I took of a loading bench at one of last year's benchrest matches. The owner refused to let me take his picture but allowed me to get some shots of this loading bench he had custom built into the luxury motor home he drives to bench matches around the country. I can only guess at how well equipped and elaborate his home loading bench must be. Must be nice to have your own traveling bench to take to the range.
 

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My room is pretty simple and practical for both reloading, light Gunsmithing and cleaning along with a few householh chores required by better half from time to time.

1. Reloading bench
2. Cleaning and repairs (cabinet in the back hold all components)
3. Storage shelves

Tried to upload pictures but didn't work. Would not let me select from iPad.
 
ofb, how the heck you doin?
Ha, ya, I still have the LNL, don't prime on it, have all my brass pre-preped, keeps my sanity when running the LNL:)

Say "hi to Dorothy and Toto:).

Floydster
 
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