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Posted: 2/4/2015 10:20:30 AM EDT
| So since I got married and had children it seems that my space in the house has decreased dramatically. I moved my reloading bunch to the shed a few years ago. That space is becoming cramped due to other items in the shed and the lack of climate control really sucks. I want to put my new press (Dillon 550) in the house. I want to mount a 2x12 to the back of a closet in a shelf orientation. The shelf would be approximately 18" wide and 12" deep. I will have additional shelving to the left and right for components and such. My question is would the 12" of depth and the 18" of width be enough for press to operate in? I am not going to be doing any case feeders, just the rl550 as it comes. |
Ain't having a wife and kids great? Watch as the years go by and your space dwindle to nothing. It should work, Cramped quarters, But work OK. Just think when the kids grow up and move out, All that extra room available.  My wife did a daycare business in the basement for a few years and took over the big room. Since she closed it down and got a job outside of the house. The "Daycare" room was available. Both my 2 sons and I swooped down and took over the "extra space". It's now a reloading / video and all around Crap collecting room. I now have a 6ft bench to learn and perfect reloading. Good luck moving that bench out.
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About 25 years ago I built a 3 car garage with an attached house!! I designed it around my specifications so my man cave would have everything I needed. It's heated and cooled with central air, has plumbing, TV/stereo, plenty of electrical outlets, work benches, storage, shelves, etc. My reloading bench is in one corner near a window and the entire garage is governed by my rules!!! 
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Make that shelf strong and you should be fine. Also, if you ever plan to swap presses, the inline fabrication quick mounts are sweet. I have 4 presses and a vice that I swap between.
One day my wife started moving all her kitchen supplies and tools out of the storage room where I reload. She said she wanted to make more room for me by putting it all in the spare bedroom closet. I thought she was being sweet.. Later that day I went into the master bedroom.. My closet had lost about 1/2 it's space because she needed to move some of her clothes from the spare bedroom into my closet to make room for her kitchen supplies. She neglected to tell me that. Now my mornings suck trying to get clothes out of a tightly packed closet... But it reminds me how much room I have in my reloading room and that's what counts.
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After we moved to the house I am in now I mounted my presses to 2x12s while I "thought about" what kind of bench to set up... well, I am still reloading on the kitchen table or a desk in another room. It works fine.
...that said, the closet in "another room" is about to be converted to a reloading closet... |
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So since I got married and had children it seems that my space in the house has decreased dramatically. I moved my reloading bunch to the shed a few years ago. That space is becoming cramped due to other items in the shed and the lack of climate control really sucks. I want to put my new press (Dillon 550) in the house. I want to mount a 2x12 to the back of a closet in a shelf orientation. The shelf would be approximately 18" wide and 12" deep. I will have additional shelving to the left and right for components and such. My question is would the 12" of depth and the 18" of width be enough for press to operate in? I am not going to be doing any case feeders, just the rl550 as it comes. Sir, FWIW I'm not going to say there won't be enough room to operate a 550 within the allotted space. However when I reload I like to have my scale near by to check charge weights periodically. Depending on what powder I'm using, especially long grain extruded powders, I think checking charge weights frequently is a necessity. I also like to keep other components handy such as bullets, a can of shells to feed into the press, primer trays, and primer feed tubes. You may have already figured out how to accommodate these needs but I'll just point that out for your consideration. While I don't suffer the space limitations you do the loading bench I made from 2x4 and 2x6 had to be fairly sturdy to resist the force necessary to resize some bottle neck rifle cases. The 223Rem is not a problem but .308 and .30-06 do require alot more force to resize than straight wall pistol cases. Make sure to consider how you will build a bench that will withstand the force of resizing. While my wife is not yet in a league with Imelda Marcos she does require some space for her clothes and shoes and other accessories. Even though we have a "walk in" closet there is little room to spare especially when the two of us are in there at the same time. Make sure your wife is OK with the "intrusion" of your reloading equipment. Have you thought about buying a bigger house? JMHO, 7zero1. |
| I bought a Black and Decker Work Mate. One of the nicer ones. Bought some 3/4" Plywood. Had it cut 2ft w x 16" d. Put 3/4" border around the sides and back. Drilled holes for the press and nothing rolls off. It all folds away until I need to reload. Which is usually when everyone is out of the house. |
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