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Just measured my reloading bench, 30” tall lol
I’m not sure how I came up with that number but it seems to work. Guess I wasn’t thinking stools when I built it. Didn’t even hear of the word ergonomics Back then. I sit in one of those white plastic folding chairs that Ray turned me on to. Supports my back as good or better than anything else I have used. On the AP it’s perfect, my arm doesn’t quite fully extend all the way in either the down or forward position. The single stage is just a touch to high but not bad from the folding chair.
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You guys thinking of building a nice solid work bench.
Take a drive to the local lumber yard and ask if they have any short pcs of MicroLam planks they don't want. One here, has twice given me a bunch of it for hauling it off. 1/16" layered plywood 1 3/4-1 7/8" thick. Sure makes a solid bench top. I've made three for others, Dad's was 14' long. Two 12', all covered with fit 16ga galvanized sheet metal. In my shop I wanted something solid enough to roll engines and such around on without hurting it. I happened onto a brick yard being torn down and asked for a bunch of 5'x6' 1/8" steel doors just headed for scrap. Had to clean my drawers when the guy said: "sure, load 'em up" Hot Dog!! I have a nice heavy duty 6" joiner, so I planed the edges and fit the ends staggered, glued the planks up with clamps. Ended up with a 34'4" bench 39" wide, covered with that 1/8" steel plate. East end has a 6' 3/4" steel plate welding table and next to that a 2' sq torch cutting table and rolling scrap bin to catch the hot stuff in. Only trouble is, the whole thing sure don't look like Harolds!! Oh, I have a 6' long 13x40 lathe and drill press on the bench too. Likely over a ton of iron and tools I can't find, big pile of 2' or less "short" pcs of steel on the cutting table. Hell of a mess really. Not being able to work out there the past six years things just pile up and don't get moved around much now. The next guy's gonna have FUN! Shop inside is 20' x 50', mostly a junk yard under a roof to be honest. Too many projects underway when I got sick, plus a big old boat. This was supposed to be a work shop and able to park 4 vehicles in it. Now the only trail keeps trying to cave in too. Oh well--! Someday. Years ago I read someplace:"a clean desk/bench top shows an idle mind"
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Sounds interesting George, I really like a good solid work bench my shop. But oddly enough my reloading room I have is a scrap piece of a countertop from Home Depot had a reduced price.
It was installed temporarily to get by but I never did get back to it and swap it out. Oddly enough it has worked very well to run both of my AP and SS press. The one thing I like about it is the lip the sticks up on the back.
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George, the way I heard it was "a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind".
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"a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind". Never had that problem.
After working in the Automotive repair field for 50 + years, all my tools are in my tool boxes and everything has it's place. Nothing is out of place. Easy to know if a tool is missing that way. My work/reloading bench? That's a different story. Either on the bench or, in the kitchen drawer. |
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Warning do not go look through this web site and Oder anything! You won’t be happy until you have everything! I keep saying this is my last order, I can get by. Then the wife starts asking why ups is here all the time
https://inlinefabrication.com/ Great company run by an awesome guy named Dan.
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I size and seat standing and I throw and weigh powder sitting. I do each stage, all together and then move to the next stage. So de-prime/size all, clean all, prime all, charge all etc. My scales and powder throwers are on a separate bench for stability, it is also lower than the bench with the presses and better suited to sitting.
If I am running the Dillon 550 I stand. I have carpet on the floor and a raft of lighting choices so there are no shadows anywhere in the room. No windows in the room and no place for drafts to appear as the heating is in floor. Don't know why it came out that way but just seems to have evolved to that over the years. |
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I do things a lot ass backwards. I will do all my case work setting at a 6' table, and charge with powder. Then I walk over to my press and stand and seat bullets. The cases I full length size, I use the same press, but I also use the L.E. Wilson dies and seater on more bolt guns every year. I have used a Lee hand primer for close to 30 years, but am switching to a RCBS bench mounted tool, as I "think" I have tendonitis in my priming hand, and it IS directly related to priming 1000 rounds last year. It SUCKS to get old, and I am only 56. I have worked very physical jobs and very long hours my entire life, and it's catching up with me fast.
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Hey George, I feel a bit better about my "disaster" of a gun room/loading bench. You said........Years ago I read someplace:"a clean desk/bench top shows an idle mind" Evidently my 'hamster wheels a turnin' |
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ahhh damn, clicked the wrong button and lost another page of my life!
I've enjoyed reading these posts. Mike: Thing about tools being in their own place. Sounds like you only have one set of each. That's my big problem. Full set of most everything in: car, truck, camp trailer and very likely half dozen or 15 of each around the shop here and there. Oh, not sure it's still in there now or not. I used to have a tool box full in the old boat too. (big old boat-19' 1966 Whitehouse cuddy) came from up on the Columbia river. Local diver brought it home and replaced it with a bigger one. I snagged it, years later stuck a damned rock thru the hull just before elk season a couple weeks. Haven't gotten back to patching it since. When building my shop, used steel trusses from a demo job. Got 26, 23' long for $500, plus all the bricks I could haul off for taking them. Trusses are doubled 5/8" rod. How you gonna "nail decking to that??" Easy! Lay 2x4's flat, fender washers and 1/4"x2 1/2" lags. Drive 'em in with a drill. Handy pawn shop a few blocks away that sells sockets for a dime to 20 cents each. Knowing I'd drop one, and spin the teeth out now and then. I'd buy all the 7/16"x3/8" drive they had each time over. Hard to believe how many of those, 1/2", and 1/4"x1/4" sockets I go thru in a year when working or tinkering on things. Seems each time I'd go over there, I'd buy $5 worth of various sizes. Ended up with a tray: 2"x10"x28" FULL of extra sockets. Most are smaller sizes, know I could outfit half dozen sets to an inch from it. Handy things are 3/8" extensions: 2-4", chop saw the socket end off and they chuck up great in a drill. Seems I used ten pounds of those lags and equal number of fender washers on the roof. When I was busy welding and making things, lot of it for hire. I'd need 5-20' of some such steel I didn't have. I'd go buy 100 or 200 feet of it, rack the rest for next time. Can't be less than $5000 worth of 20' steel on my rack. Another rack of shorter stuff around 5-10'. The "shorts" 2-4' are stuffed under the bench in "stansions", pcs up to 2' are just piled on the cutting table. IF you guys were closer I'd invite you to come haul some of it off IF you'd use it. IF iron is big enough, or good enough to make something with yet. It don't go to scrap. When I was busy, I'd haul off easily a ton of scrap a year when the bin got full. Rider says a mutual friend of ours runs the machine shop where they work and is a packrat worse than me. Company told him to sort it out and scrap it. Not much was. One day they sent a crew over and loaded it up. I guess Bill just about set down and cried. Everytime I part with, or scrap something it never fails that within a month I have to go buy a replacement at ten times the cost of what I got for the scrap. That hurts. But, at the same time a person that keeps this stuff can end up needing another building to work in because it's built up enough it's run him out of there. My tools are much the same way. Just too bad I got sick and crippled up before all this stuff could be used up. I sincerely hope the next guy in this place appreciates all the tools and supplies I've spent a lifetime gathering up. Hopefully, someone will buy it as is and whoever I leave it to won't have a big yard/garage sale and let it go for a nickle on the dollar. Though I do feel sorry for the guy having to clean out the shop and loading room etc.
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