Who has the coolest reloading/workbench?

[Mike357]

Ovenpaa looks like he has a good set up from the pics of his stock mod on his AI but I wanna see pictures of your set up.

Perhaps we could vote and the winner gets our undying envy for evermore?

[dromia]

Have a look at the Man Cave thread further down, here's the link:

http://www.full-bore.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=97

[ovenpaa]

Despite my workshop being 16'x8' my recently *remodelled* reloading area is already proving to be too small in some respects. At least I have robust benches to all 4 sides so I can move to a different area if needed. The trick now is to see if I can keep everything clear and I still need to do something about dust and shavings wafting across to the load bench.

I am so looking forward to pepping brass at the bench with the door open on a summers day.

[Mike357]

Jesus H Christ Dromia, that's awesome.

You win!

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[ovenpaa]

Erm.. I think Blu and Dromia beat me hands down on this count however I do count myself as being very lucky to have a dedicated bench area. I need to build more shelves for it as I still have a cupboard with stuff in that needs a new home and Christel will continue to throw powder in the kitchen as she likes some peace and quiet when she is doing that.

[MikMak]

Here is our reloading bench and 50 m Test range

a small part of what we are currently putting together in the company,

Mik

[ovenpaa]

Your own test range is a nice touch, I see you are throwing N560 with the Harrell, N560 is quite coarse so do you find it accurate enough? I use a Harrell for fine ball such as SP9 where it is very good but gave up with the coarse stuff.

[MikMak]

Strictly speaking, No its not accurate enough for the coarse N560, we check weigh every charge on Lab Scales prior to filling the case, just use the Harel to get a rough charge weight quickly, sometimes its spot on, but mostly 1 to 2 tenths out on weight. I have tried loads without check weighing and get better results with the checked weight charges. Have developed some pretty good loads with the setup that we have. Have just purchased a chamber pressure test kit, useing strain guages that glue to the outside of the chamber, waiting to calibrate it against some ammo from the proofhouse. Also got loads more to do before we move into our new setup in Mar/Apr
Mik

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[ovenpaa]

Strictly speaking, No its not accurate enough for the coarse N560, we check weigh every charge on Lab Scales prior to filling the case, just use the Harel to get a rough charge weight quickly, sometimes its spot on, but mostly 1 to 2 tenths out on weight. I have tried loads without check weighing and get better results with the checked weight charges.

This is interesting, I would only use the Harrell for throwing initial charges with coarse powders before going onto the milligram scale but if you do the math for say a 60 grain load then two tenths variation is going to equal a variation of less than 10FPS. It does make me wonder why we spend so much time on weighing and measuring and testing when we could probably get equally equal benefit by spending more time on shooting and wind reading skills.

Deep down I know the reason, it's because we feel better for taking the extra time with our hand loads