Ashamed of my Reloading Bench

[markr6754]

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.

 

[rfwobbly]

I look at that and see perfect organization !

 

[Blue68f100]

I have limited bench space in my shop where I handload at. So I try to keep it clean so I have space to work. It's only 8' long with a AP on one end and SS on the other. Have storage underneath and drawers in the middle with parts and dies. My other bench (7') is where I do most of my gunsmithing and general work bench.

Your look like you need to finish putting things up. Looks like your organized, just need to put things in their proper place.

 

[Jimster]

Hell, that looks great. You must be bragging.

 

[Cump]

I won't show a picture of mine. Car and appliance parts seem to find a way onto it too.

 

[bearleft]

Organized clutter is what I'll call mine!!

 

[splattergun]

A pile for everything and everything in its pile. Generally speaking, of course.

 

[jmorris]

Only take pictures after you clean them up.

 

[lightman]

I understand, no reason to feel ashamed! I spent most of my adult life working 2 very demanding physical jobs. When the boys were living at home I attended most of their athletic events and I was also a Scoutmaster with meetings once a week and a campout or hike once a month. I know what it means to have very little free time.

 

[Golfanaticshooter]

Only take pictures after you clean them up.

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Well now we know where all the reloading stuff is! Lol

 

[NR53]

You need a lava lamp and it would be perfect!!

 

[Dunross]

What is this "cleaning" you speak of?

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I like mine being clean, but it rarely is. I'm not sure how that works.

 

[horsemen61]

I like to call it organized chaos!

 

[cfullgraf]

My reloading room would make yours look like a sterile operating room.

One of these days I spend a few days getting it reorganized.

 

[kmw1954]

Look back thru the years.
Today that bench has about 12 large plastic pretzel jars full of brass under it.

 

[Orcon]

I don't see a problem here.

 

[Random 8]

I let attrition do the work, and try to use oldest first. I do throw away or repurpose empty containers though, and there's a special box shoved way into a dark corner for tooling I haven't used in at least 5 years. I'm not a pig for cryin' out loud!

My bench looks a bit like a cross between a mad scientist and one of those gunshow tables you glance over, then go back to looking for treasures after your haggling failed on a high ticket item. The room looks like "that room" at Grandpa's, a trusted neighbor, or similar that you found endlessly fascinating and were seldom allowed to enter as a child. Whether it contained gun stuff, motorcycle carburetors in various stages of construction, or dirty magazines and beer signs, you knew it was a magical and mostly forbidden place that you dreamed of owning yourself when you grew up.

 

[AK Hunter]

My reloading bench doesn't get cleaned until I need to search for something or my space to reload gets too small to reload without knocking things off. LOL
I know it should look perfectly clean but if I can reload & do a quality job isn't just a little obsessive compulsive to constantly be cleaning.
We all try to reload in as small a place as we can so we don't take up too much room from others.

 

[GW Staar]

What! Yours is clean enough to reload on? That's rare. I keep building new stuff and making a big mess. Covid's kept me from shooting as much as I want, so I keep building and making messes....and adding stuff I probably don't need. But I keep busy.....that's the important thing right now.

 

[entropy]

I had to yesterday because I started to detail the Win. Model 12 I picked up in Dec. My shotgun reloading bench doubles as my gunsmithing bench.
Normally, it looks like this: (or worse)

Several projects going on at once; off to the right is my Metallic reloading bench. That one is too small for any gunsmithing work.

 

[HowieG]

Mine in it's resting state.
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[NMexJim]

I look at that and see perfect organization !

The professional pyschotherapist has a term for this and the last word is retentive. I've forgotten the first word in that descriptive, but it's not good!

First, we get a guy in another thread who show us all up with how he built a fantastic stand for his Foster Trimmer, and then we get these guys who just plainly want to rub our noses in it knowing that we'll never ever attain any basic level of order. Fung Sui my rear end.

 

[HowieG]

The professional pyschotherapist has a term for this and the last word is retentive. I've forgotten the first word in that descriptive, but it's not good!

First, we get a guy in another thread who show us all up with how he built a fantastic stand for his Foster Trimmer, and then we get these guys who just plainly want to rub our noses in it knowing that we'll never ever attain any basic level of order. Fung Sui my rear end.

LMAO!!

 

[Mark_Mark]

ok,

I had to yesterday because I started to detail the Win. Model 12 I picked up in Dec. My shotgun reloading bench doubles as my gunsmithing bench.
Normally, it looks like this: (or worse)
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Several projects going on at once; off to the right is my Metallic reloading bench. That one is too small for any gunsmithing work.

nice! have tried Japanese whetstone for polishing sears and disconnects? we are talking 4000 grit and 6000 grit. Mirror polish