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Posted: 7/25/2009 11:30:21 AM EDT
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I am fairly new to reloading. I only got started in it a few months ago.
For now I plan to reload .223 since I have several thousand cases, bullets, primers and powder. I live in Florida and have a garage with a workbench. However, the garage is not air conditioned and quite frankly it is too hot to work there during several months of the year. I decided to fix up a work area in my gunroom, which is an extra 12 x 13 bedroom my wife lets me use. I bought a table at Ikea. It is heavy duty with a solid wood top. It was only like $150 and provides a good platform. I have a separate station set up for sizing with a Redding press. I also have a Dillon trimmer mounted on a Rockchucker. I then do the final neck sizing, primer seating, power loading and bullet seating on the Dillon. Because I do the sizing separately it is not a 400 bullet an hour setup but I can do it fairly fast. I know I can do the sizing on the Dillon but I feel more comfortable with the single stage press. 
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| Whatever works for you just do it. Try it and see how you like it. Personally I would have got a lot bigger table or work bench. Especially with 3 presses. There are plans to make them and you could have made one a lot less than $150. You could put some shelving above the table also. Hopefully the wife doesn't care. I am fortunate to have a walkout below ground basement on a mountain with awesome drainage. Constant temperature and no moisture problems. Great for storing powder, ammunition, primers, guns, etc... |
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Whatever works for you just do it. Try it and see how you like it. Personally I would have got a lot bigger table or work bench. Especially with 3 presses. There are plans to make them and you could have made one a lot less than $150. You could put some shelving above the table also. Hopefully the wife doesn't care. I am fortunate to have a walkout below ground basement on a mountain with awesome drainage. Constant temperature and no moisture problems. Great for storing powder, ammunition, primers, guns, etc... I am planning to build a new home next year. I have bough some land and have the funds available. I will build a proper workshop and gun room in the new home. There is another table in the room but I also have to keep the gunsafes and ammo and everything else firearm related in the room. I also can't do too much to the room because after we build our new home we plan to give this one to my son and I don't want to mess up the bedroom too much. Also, once it gets a little cooler I can move the presses out to the garage workbench if I want. The table is not too bad. I have room to do each function. |
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A great start, but you will need more bench space and some shelfs in the future.
400 rounds per hour is with preped brass. So 1k "should" take 2 1/2 hours. Filling primer mag and powder measure takes time too. I don't rush, it takes me about 4 hours to load 1k on a 550. 
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