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| Glad I found this thread. I will be using this design except swapping in 4x4s for legs and then sandwich a 4x4 horizontally between 2x4s on the front legs and bolt my press through that. Then 3/4" plywood top base with 3/4" plank utility shelf wood on top of that. |
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GWhis-
I registered here simply to post in this thread. Though I've lurked off and on for years, this is what did it. Thank you for sharing your experience here. I am a fan of simple, effective engineering and this Torsion beam plan is just the ticket. I've been scouring the web for various plans and haven't been satisfied with what I've come across. In my previous house I had built a workbench with a bunch of scraps that was also a ledger board but it was well over-engineered because I more or less have no idea what I'm doing. 
I finally have a garage where I can setup a dedicated workshop for mounting a vise for basic gunsmithing, reloading and other non-gun tasks. This will do the job and be a lot more elegant. I see you've updated the thread recently so I wanted to followup with a question. I have modified the plans to shorten the bench to 6' wide. I am maintaining the other dimensions though I may lower it a bit. This will be mounted on a sheetrocked exterior garage wall so I get to play find the studs. For the ledger board, would it be acceptable for substitute the the 2-3" deck screws per stud for one - 1/4" x 3" Spax Powerlag screw in each stud? The Spax lags are T-Star washer heads meant for indoor use. With the wider width of the lag, I know I'll need to be more diligent in finding the center of the stud. I am doing this with materials I have on-hand so I figured why not use them if it makes sense? Or is this a stupid idea? OK I lied, I did spend some coin on a 3/4" sanded maple sheet of plywood. 
Thank you again for these fantastic plans. |
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Just my luck. I finally get my the time, and my reloading bench just hit the top of my to do list. And this thread has disappeared into the twilight zone. So maybe a harbor freight bench, (or two) is in my future. I do know where to get a three inch thick, ten foot section of old reclaimed lane from a demo’d bowling alley. If anyone still has the plans for this bench please im me. Back to the tagged threads at the top of the page. |
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https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?resources/inexpensive-no-flex-bench-how-to.6/
Never could get my pictures and videos back correctly on this forum since software changes and Photo Bucket's implosion. So the only source is above.....should be all there......and it's all downloadable. |
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The depth and breadth devastation wrought by Photobucket is difficult to describe. Imagine all the information lost because of their retroactive money grab. No one should ever pay for Photobucket. If they had grandfathered all the old photos, I would have zero trouble with that company changing their terms of service going forward. However, what they did, retroactively revoking access to all material on their servers, was the internet equivalent of burning the Library at Alexandria. Photobucket - never again! |
This was my first compact bench. It is mounted on the wall and has round aluminum spacer inserts in the drywall so the bench is solidly mounted to the studs. I eventually had three SDBs c-clamped to the corner to swap out to the center mount prior to buying the 650. You can see if you look closely, there is a 5/16" steel plate welded to the tubing where the press is directly mounted. The plate is drilled and tapped. MEC 5000G just to the left.
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Present day, press is mounted to 3/8" steel plate which is then mounted to the bench top with carriage bolts. A steel bar stock isolates the case feed which really increased its reliability. The bench top is 2" thick MDF with an oak plywood veneer on top and milled solid oak edge. I would have used plywood for the entire top, but the solid 2" MDF was left behind by the previous home owner. I have never seen MDF that thick up until that.
Every time I clean off the bench top, within a week, it happens again.
Those junk bin AR parts turned into a 20" A2 build. It is like magic. 
I took those bagged cases and put them in an under bed container and put them in a spare room. Somehow they all made it back.
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https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?resources/inexpensive-no-flex-bench-how-to.6/ Never could get my pictures and videos back correctly on this forum since software changes and Photo Bucket's implosion. So the only source is above.....should be all there......and it's all downloadable. I will soon be making my cuts. I will most likely stain and seal the lumber before assembling it. Unless a little research tells me the glue wont bond properly. I will look into making an interchangable mounting system. It has been a while since I have had a dedicated bench. When I did have a proper bench there was only a rock chucker and an ammo plant to consider. Now there is a 550, a sdb, and a MEC to put into the mix. Maybe the ammo plant will need to be boxed away as a spare. |
) and this bench is the new main workbench.|
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You are welcome! Pictures when you're done, OK? This thread is really really old, and nobody has paid any attention to it for years........so I didn't try real hard to restore it..... . Still have to get my presses and other equipment out of storage and mounted.
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Still in love with mine five years later 
Attached File Thanks again OP 
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So after getting settled in a bit:
Attached File Mostly stained/urethaned pine boards. Top plywood sheet is stained/satin urethaned hardwood. Front legs anchored into the floor. Presses have through bolts all the way through the wood. Vise has 3" lag bolts. Dillon swager is just sitting on the edge. Shelf made to be able to easily eyeball the powder scale. And underbench shelves: Attached File Stained/urethaned 2x8 pine boards. Anchored to the wall. |
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You haven't seen the rest of the room. That's just the tooling area. Brass and projectiles have their own shelves on opposite walls. Powder and primers stored in the closet. Attached File ETA: projectile storage. . .and some books. I wouldn't have built these shelves had I not been building the underbench shelves. . .which would not have been getting built without your torsion bench idea and plans.
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Quoted: What happened to the original info from the OP??? The pictures were trashed by photobucket. BUT GWhis has provided a link to the info here. |
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