Cluttered and messy reloading bench

[uncle jimbo]

Following this thread that waco started

Shop find!!!!!

And that is why you will never see a picture of my reloading bench. Hell, if I did post a picture of my reloading bench, you couldn't see the bench for all the clutter and junk. You would just have to take my word for it that it was under there.:embarrassed:

www.artfulbullet.com

(glad you found your good memory waco) and how it kind of lost it's way, and not wanting to maker it more so, I am starting this thread.
So I told a falsehood about posting a picture of my messy reloading bench,(the whole damn room actually), I am posting pictures of my reloading bench and room so that the rest of you can feel better about your self an your reloading benches.
So her you go, you can start laughing now if you like.
So now all my secrets are out.

 

[Ian]

I'm laughing because you have one of the neatest, most organized loading rooms I've yet seen, and yet you think it's a mess. You need about three times more stuff in there and only about two square inches of visible benchtop to make the top ten.

 

[fiver]

yep.
I Bet 5$ I could easily find everything I needed to make ammo in 5 minutes without directions.

 

[Bret4207]

I'm going to have to take a picture of my room and load it later. Pretty sure I'll be in the top 3 contestants for "That's not a reloading.casting room, that's a pig sty!".

 

[Winelover]

Uncle Jimbo: First rule in safe reloading practices........... is to only keep one powder, at a time, on the bench. The one your currently using.

 

[L Ross]

Gosh you guys are making me feel better, normal, accepted. I needed a happy thought this morning. I made the mistake of watching the local news and I am all pizzed off to start my day.

 

[Gary]

Uncle Jimbo: First rule in safe reloading practices........... is to only keep one powder, at a time, on the bench. The one your currently using.

OK, that is a general rule at my reloading "area". I have approx 20 cans of Powder on my bench at any time. However, I only have ONE opened at a time. I don't have the space to have a separate "area" for Powder, and that's after I've extended the "bench" 3 times.

 

[Winelover]

Well the problem with that is...................what happens to that container, after you put some in the powder hopper? I don't know about you......................but I promptly close it. Now, it's in the same condition as the other twenty.

 

[Ian]

I'm paranoid too about having a container open for more than a few seconds. On the other hand, I may leave powder in a hopper for months Not at all advisable, but that's how it ends up at my house. My reloading room is hermetically sealed most of the time and a very constant temperature and humidity. Gotta keep that clutter well-preserved you know...

Powder gets stored in several magazines in undisclosed locations, most of which are separate from the building where I sleep. Winelover has one of the neatest powder magazines I've seen in pictures.

 

[Gary]

There IS NO problem with that; where I set to drop powder is approx 15' away from the other jugs of pwd , AND I don't recap the pwd UNTIL I finish and dump the hopper back into the jug. Also, I usually only load a max of 25 at a time.

 

[Ian]

I'm really reluctant to post photos of my mess, funny thing is I actually spent a few days cleaning benches off an inch at a time a while back so the clutter is just now starting its regrowth cycle. The cleaning bench is still stacked a foot high though, and I don't even wanna talk about the mess in the workshop.

 

[Winelover]

This is my surplus powder storage, that Ian mentioned. Plastic 55 gallon drum sunk in the floor of my extra detached garage.

In my basement reloading room, I have a non working upright freezer, with miscellaneous one pound containers that I use the most often. It's on the opposite room end, farthest away from the bench.

 

[Winelover]

Just to prove I have clutter and a mess:



Bench side of room.



Opposite side, with gun cleaning area, powder storage freezer and miscellaneous accouterments.

 

[Rick]

Bout time you got that cleaned up. Didn't look like that last time I saw it.

 

[Ian]

Per ASBC SOP, this thread went off in an unintended direction...

If the OP had wanted to start a "clean bench" thread, I don't think anyone would have replied though.

 

[462]

Yeah, Winelover's powder storage swerve got me to thinking that, if I were to do the same, whatever new can I needed would always be at the bottom of the drum.

 

[Winelover]

Bout time you got that cleaned up. Didn't look like that last time I saw it.

Probably, won't look like that when your over on X-mas Day, either.

 

[Winelover]

Yeah, Winelover's powder storage swerve got me to thinking that, if I were to do the same, whatever new can I needed would always be at the bottom of the drum.

That's the reason for the milk crates. Three crates can be stacked and readily removed.

 

[L Ross]

I keep a strip of wide yellow "Frog Tape" with the name or number of the powder and leave it on the container. When that powder is dispensed into the powder measure the Frog Tape label goes on the hopper. When the hopper gets emptied back into the original container, the Frog Tape label goes back too. I use a black Sharpie to letter the tape.

 

[462]

Still, the wanted powder would always be at the bottom of the barrel.