hightide610
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Hello everyone! I've stalked the forum for many months searching for ideas and spending A LOT of time reading, so first time officially posting.
I am relatively new to the reloading world so I am quite novice in years but I am an avid researcher (comes from the technical background). 2 years ago we bought 10 acres in the country and I planned out what our forever home/homestead would be. In that plan was my dream shop (I've spent the better part of 40 years rolling ideas in my head about it) and always had the intention of having a dedicated gun building/smithing and reloading room as well as a three sided 12+ foot tall berm and in my property search of a minimum of 10 acres I need one side to be over 600' long with nothing on the backside for long guns (another 20' wide 12+ foot tall berm.
Shop is done and plans are in motion for the shooting areas now, but I need to get work on construction of the reload room. So I am looking for some help answering questions.
We are located in North/Central Florida, this is a particularly mild winter (so far) but today January 10th, 2022 it is 65 degrees outside and 82% humidity, August 10th of 2022 will be a VERY different story.
The shop is a metal frame and sided building 30'x30' with an eave height of 13', there are two 12' wide lean-to's on either side, one open for parking the horse trailer and one fully enclosed where I park my tractor.
The area that I am peeling off for my "hobby room" is the back side of that enclosed lean-to, which I am starting construction on at the end of this month. The room will be a fully insulated 8'x12' room and only accessible thru the shop area for security purposes.
Sooo... here are my questions:
Here is the rough draft of the plan:
Feel free to critique and suggest...
And for reference, here is the shop layout and why I chose it there:
I am relatively new to the reloading world so I am quite novice in years but I am an avid researcher (comes from the technical background). 2 years ago we bought 10 acres in the country and I planned out what our forever home/homestead would be. In that plan was my dream shop (I've spent the better part of 40 years rolling ideas in my head about it) and always had the intention of having a dedicated gun building/smithing and reloading room as well as a three sided 12+ foot tall berm and in my property search of a minimum of 10 acres I need one side to be over 600' long with nothing on the backside for long guns (another 20' wide 12+ foot tall berm.
Shop is done and plans are in motion for the shooting areas now, but I need to get work on construction of the reload room. So I am looking for some help answering questions.
We are located in North/Central Florida, this is a particularly mild winter (so far) but today January 10th, 2022 it is 65 degrees outside and 82% humidity, August 10th of 2022 will be a VERY different story.
The shop is a metal frame and sided building 30'x30' with an eave height of 13', there are two 12' wide lean-to's on either side, one open for parking the horse trailer and one fully enclosed where I park my tractor.
The area that I am peeling off for my "hobby room" is the back side of that enclosed lean-to, which I am starting construction on at the end of this month. The room will be a fully insulated 8'x12' room and only accessible thru the shop area for security purposes.
Sooo... here are my questions:
- Dealing with humidity, I am putting a small 6,000 BTU A/C unit in the room, but, with the room only actually being roughly 96 sq ft, that is likely not going to have time to adequately pull the humidity down before it cools the room leading to several challenges. So I am planning on also adding a dehumidifier to it. My thought is trying to maintain 45-50% humidity, but I am not real sure how much is to much for storage of primers and powder, and are there other suggestions or things to look at to control humidity to keep powder from absorbing or steel parts from rusting?
- I have also considered a 300cfm commercial exhaust fan (like that would go in a bathroom only much larger and designed for continuous use), I actually have a brand new one in a box, but have had mixed responses to my thought of adding it.
- Because I am limited on counter space I want to put T-track in the counter and pick up a couple of inline fabrication ultramounts for presses, vices and other various items, but the only track I can find is 3/8"x3/4" aluminum which I fear will not have the rigidity to keep presses from flexing over time, what has anyone had experience with?
- Floor coatings, I'm kicking around garage epoxy, but also think anti-static mat would be a better option there. So any feedback there would be appreciated.
- This one seems crazy for me to even ask, but bench height? In the shop my benches are all 46", but I kind of feel like that may be to high especially since I am going to be using ultramounts. Right now I have a Lee Classic Turret, but down the road a nice progressive press with bullet feed and case feed options for handgun loads is a plan, some of those I've been looking at it would take a step ladder to check on which I don't want to do.
Here is the rough draft of the plan:
Feel free to critique and suggest...
And for reference, here is the shop layout and why I chose it there: