How organized is your relaoding room

[Rembrandt]

I don't like to start or finish in a messy workplace. Any hint of reloading is stored and put away.

The work area may get cluttered while reloading, but it's put away and stored out of sight the rest of the time. Plenty of storage in roll cabinets, overhead cabinets and shelving. When not in use, the room always looks like the last photo.

 

[Crashbox]

I will also vouch for considerable clutter at and around my bench. Here is a photo I took last year (and there's MORE clutter now!):

 

[Hondo 60]

Well, I know where everything is.

I'd like to post 2 images, but I forget how.
They currently reside on my website.

 

[rondog]

Mine is kind of a hybrid - reasonably well organized, yet still a hideous mess. If I were to clean it all up and put everything back in its place, then it would be nicely organized. But I'm a slob. A slob that's OCD about drawers, containers, tool boxes, labeling, etc., but too lazy to keep up with it.

 

[lightman]

Well, mine is not like military dress/right/dress, but everything has a place and is usually in that place. Powder, primers, brass, bullets and tools have their place and usually get put back there after being used. I can even find most things most of the time!

 

[Ccctennis]

Pic

Here is my setup for my dillon.

 

[witchhunter]

Rembrandt is the sickest of us all, he needs some help!

 

[Bush Pilot]

I have to rent a Bobcat to clean up my reloading area. I wish I was kidding.

 

[lightning]

I need a bigger shop

 

[jeepmor]

Mine consists of a 6' long bench, and two double overhead cabinets of same length. There's a small long shelf under the cabinets where the powder scale lives and my "in process" items like the trickler, powder bottle and die box sit. I have a rework bin there where oddballs and rejects reside until I rework them.

I store ammo cans, and other home stuff on the bench's bottom shelf. Benchtop dedicated to reloading and more storage with large Costco food jars. Bench has a vise on one end for garage utility as it's the heaviest bench. Cabinets pretty neat and organized. I use 1-2 qt food jars from Costco for storage of cases. Squarish body, twist on top for a good seal.

I'm not real anal about the storage, but everything has a place. The Costco jars and adjustable shelf cabinets offered the most flexibility. They work well for me.

 

[Gravedigger56]

Hey Lightning, get rid of that boat and you'll have all sorts of room.

 

[Gravedigger56]

A before and after.



Started out as a craft area in the basement and has now became my reloading area. Everytime I'm down there I do a little rearranging and find a better spot for something which is required when you don't have a lot of room to work with. Directly behind me is another area just as large and setup for all my gun cleaning/maintenance. I think my next project will be to combine the 2 areas and take advantage of the storage areas of the cleaning area for reloading items as well.

 

[Schwing]

I keep mine almost OCD organized. Not only is it my reloading room, but it is also my man-cave, gym and media room.

 

[ohioshooter]

Before, during or after my reloading????

 

[Andrew Leigh]

It depends. If I am working in there it tends to become a disaster area. Then I get mad at myself cause I can't find anything and I land up cleaning it. Then I start the vicious cycle all over again.

This is on a clean day

Edster12, could you take a close up of your single stage RCBS. Keen to see what goodies you have attached to it.

 

[Offthehook]

I don't know who Rembrandt is but if he's a Dr sign me up. That's how I want my health care professionals to be.

I try to organize as much as possible with labels, cabinets, plastic storage bins, buckets and whatever. I still lose stuff only to be found some other time.

What I am a bit more organized about is working on one thing at a time, keeping detailed reference sheets for each load I produce. This way when I set up I reduce the chance to use the wrong components. I always label the powder hoppers with whatever I am using.

The other organizational thing I do is keep an up to date inventory of supplies on hand. This has saved me from buying things I already have and only picking up things I really need.

 

[Claude Clay]

every thing in its place and a place for everything

and if I ever put every thing away, the time that took would be small compared
to the time it will cost me to find what use to be laying right at my finger tips.

---> a very organized clutter

 

[J-Bar]

This is the smallest bedroom in a 4 bedroom home. Empty nests can be pleasant!

Cases, bullets, powder, and primers are stored in desk drawers and chest of drawers in the corner to the left of the desk. Tumbling and casting done in the garage. I reload 3 handgun calibers and 12 gauge shotshells here, both smokeless and black powder.

No point in courting mistakes due to clutter. Maintaining order keeps me calm. The work top is 3/4" marine plywood covered in green canvas and simply screwed to the old desktop. The cloth helps keep stuff from rolling around, and matches the room decor.

 

[DR915]

OCD

 

[Edster12]

Edster12, could you take a close up of your single stage RCBS. Keen to see what goodies you have attached to it.

You noticed did you. It is sitting on the Inline Fabrications Junior Ultra Mount 6" height. I also have the Case Ejector System with double bins.
The case kicker works great, I have since changed the ramp to the bin to a moldable polycarbonate ramp, it works much better.

 

[Andrew Leigh]

Thanks for the response. One last question on then I will turn the hijack off.

Does the case kicker work with bottleneck cases?

 

[Edster12]

Yes Andrew it works with tapered as well as straight wall cases.

 

[bmnloader]

I'm very organized. See?

 

[gamestalker]

You had to ask. Right now, I've got multiple major developments going on, just got 2 more projects dropped off this morning, several thousand rounds of brass being prepped, so it's a pretty nasty mess right now. Normally I'm pretty organized though.

Currently, I have 3 metallic presses mounted up, and I'm getting ready to mount my Mec 600 Jr. also, turkey season is coming soon. But one thing I don't ever do is run two different operations at the same time. Load trays only have one project in them, and one powder on the bench. I never run more than one load, on the same bench, at the same time.

GS

 

[joem1945]

The entire basement is my reloading room. One bench 2' X 12' for case prep and some single stage loading. One 2'X8' bench for Dillon 650, super swedge and power trimers. One 2X8' bench for case cleaning. One 2'X 12' for general purpose. One 3'X5' for reloading .357 and RCBS case trimer. Two big steel shelf units for powder storage and die storage. Other stuff and cab's in basement.