Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Portable Reloading Stand

Might be moving soon and will be without a permanent reloading bench for a while. Has anyone here used the portable type stand shown below. I don't load massive quantities, but would still like to be able to load on occasion.

GK

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Mine is kinda sim-u-lar. An old truckstop cafe table base with a scrap of 1/4 inch steel for a top. A little more room to mount stuff than the one pictured....

That stand will surely work but it's not cheep, it takes the same amount of room if you're using it or not, it's not readily portable and it's not very flexable. I've seen Black & Decker's folding "WorkMate" shop benches used with the press and other stuff mounted on small boards that can be clamped in place and that seems more rationial to me.

Hunts,

How's the stability of that type setup? My concern is that it looks like it would want to tip forward on the down stroke of the press when re-sizing.

GK

It wiggles a little, but don't 'tip'. That's why the scale is on a shelf....You really do get used to a little movement when sizing, and it's not a big deal.

Cool, thanks for the reply. I'll probably have to go with something like that for a while.

GK

That's what I said......'bout 30 years ago.

I got my Pacific press from my Grandpa and it's mounted to a stand from an old creamer (I think). It shifts around a little but doesn't cause any problems.

That'll work. Another option is cast off cabinets. you might ask a local cabinetmaker if he could hook you up. They typically just throw them away when some female decides to drop 12K on a new kitchen (that the bitch never uses, more often than not).

A homegrown version of the portable bench you posted can be made from a cast off harrow disc. Just flop it down on the shop floor and weld a piece of 3in pipe on it.

Here's mine. It has an 18" square 3/8" steel plate for the top. The top has a short piece of 2.5" steel tubing that turns on the longer piece of 2" steel tubing and has a locking bolt to fix at any position. I am going to dress it up by wrapping the base with an octagon enclosure of walnut. A new paint job on the steel and it will be ready for my newly remodeled man room. It used to bolt directly to the floor but with the new tile in the family room I doubt I could get away with that.

Mart

I have two of my reloading presses mounted on a wooden microwave cart with butcherblock top. It has a drawer for storage of small items, shelves and lockable casters. I purchased mine from the local home center, but I am sure they could be found at garage sales or on Craig's List for a very reasonable price.

I created a table-top portable reloading press stand for this, similar to the one Sinclair offers (but with some improvements ... at least in my opinion). I drew it all up in a CAD program, and posted all the plans and instructions to try to help. I thought you guys might be interested in looking at it as an option.

Check out the full plans at: http://precisionrifleblog.com/2012/11/12/portable-reloading-press-plans/