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You're going to feel
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I have extra feet, if any pushback or you don't want to wait. I installed the casters.
Drop me an email and I can get them right out.

Bruce






"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
 
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And nice looking table, BTW! That was fast!

Bruce






"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
 
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Thank you Bruce! All the parts (except the feet) came in and I couldn’t wait to get started. Thank you for the offer on the missing parts... you’re too kind. I’m kinda thinking I might like the casters the more I think about it though. Do the locks on the casters hold tight?


"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen...
 
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I don’t know what all this gear will weigh... how about this guy?

https://www.harborfreight.com/...Workbench-63395.html

I think someone above might have recommended it


I used one. They do ok, especially if you bolt it to the wall. The drawers a good for storing your small tools.

I mounted my various presses to a 3/4” Piece of plywood. Along the bottom of the plywood, I screwed on a small piece of wood to fit in the wood vise. In the top, I routed in a grove that would allow a bolt to slide in from one of the top holes that’s already in the bench. It’s hard to explain, but it would make sense if you saw it.

By having an adaptor plate made up and attached to each press, it allowed me to switch out a press in about 15 seconds. I was limited on space, and I was able to have a single stage, a progressive, and a shotgun press. I just dropped the one I wanted to use in the wood vise, tightened the handle, and tightened a wing nut. Very simple, and it allowed me to use that somewhat smaller bench like a bench that could mount three presses.

Those HF benches go on sale sometimes. I got mine for $99.



Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus
 
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Originally posted by dry-fly:
Thank you Bruce! All the parts (except the feet) came in and I couldn’t wait to get started. Thank you for the offer on the missing parts... you’re too kind. I’m kinda thinking I might like the casters the more I think about it though. Do the locks on the casters hold tight?



The casters are pretty overbuilt. They do a great job of rolling and holding.
Worth the cost, I believe.

Edit: Remember to take into account the height they will add. You may want shorter legs or the shorter Ultramount for the press.

Bruce






"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
 
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Very good! Thanks Bruce


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Just a couple of things to consider.

I have a similar bench, no casters on carpet. When I would push or pull the press handle the bench would have a tendency to rock or move. It is against an interior wall and started to beat up the wall and this would have things falling all over the place. Due to the foundation or the floor or the legs. Who knows.

I installed a 3/4 plywood lower shelf. Even with that shelf loaded down with bullets and brass the bench would rock. I used a solid core door for my bench top and cut the length. Strength and weight was not the issue.

To stop the movement I installed two little hard rubber door stop wedges. I got them at HD. One near each corner of the bench top. Between the bench and the wall. I placed the bench as close as I could to the wall and put them pointy end down. I don't get any movement now.

I remember building that bench in the garage then having to tear it down to get it in the room it is in now. I don't look forward to tearing it down anytime soon.

-TVz
 
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Here is my HF. I put 3, 2x6's under the feet to make it 5" taller. Also a 6" shelf on the wall behind it making it deeper. Cut dowels to fill the holes.
Trimmer is in vice, press ie mounted with bolts out of the way of drawers.
It is perfect.
 
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Nice table exactly as I recommended in an earlier post in another thread.
While I did not make a reloading table this way I would have it if I didn't already have one.
I got the idea after getting a Kreg router table for Christmas ~ great base for most anything.
FWIW, I built my computer table (different legs) from the very same oak Butcher Block from Floor Décor too ~ stained it and about a dozen coats of poly. Love that too!

Nice reloading bench. Cool
 
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We got ours years ago, from Sams Club, but your new table looks awesome! Good idea using butcher block. If we ever need another one, will go that route.
 
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