Royce's Loading Bench
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Re: Royce's Loading Bench
My bench got a rearranging the other day. I was putting the hairpin trigger spring back into a break-open shotgun and it decided to jump onto the bench. I took everything off to look for it only to discover it had decided to jump from the bench onto my fatigue mat. Only reason I found the pesky critter was I dropped a shell holder while clearing the bench. Not going to show bench because I was not in the best of moods when I put everything back.
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Re: Royce's Loading Bench
I understand! I seem to go through the same about three times a year! It takes me a month to recover!Macd wrote:My bench got a rearranging the other day. I was putting the hairpin trigger spring back into a break-open shotgun and it decided to jump onto the bench. I took everything off to look for it only to discover it had decided to jump from the bench onto my fatigue mat. Only reason I found the pesky critter was I dropped a shell holder while clearing the bench. Not going to show bench because I was not in the best of moods when I put everything back.
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Re: Royce's Loading Bench
I put clear plastic over the holes for now because primers can fall in there. May have to find some wooden plugs to make it more permanent.
bls65 wrote:Royce, I have the same bench good choice....Solid as a rock!
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Re: Royce's Loading Bench
I use a wooden dowel for 1 of the bench dog holes on the far side of my bench for a paper towel holder.
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I've moved a lot of equipment around on my bench over 25 years. I stick a short piece of dowel in the press bolt holds to use as shell holder-holders for those that I frequent.
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Re: Royce's Loading Bench
I will have to glue, drive in, cut off several dowels in my bench top to fill all my press holes as my bench plate stuff should be here TODAY.
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Funny as that is how this started, filling holes after the bench plates were introduced. As I worked around the first plate, I thought, "I know what I can use this one for "GasGuzzler wrote:I will have to glue, drive in, cut off several dowels in my bench top to fill all my press holes as my bench plate stuff should be here TODAY.
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Re: Royce's Loading Bench
I intentionally drilled holes in my workbench and then inserted "T" nuts from the bottom. A tapered head cap screw in the countersunk holes allows their use for hold downs and temporary mounting of jigs etc. I have no requirement for this on my reloading bench but it might be useful for people who need to mount and dismount equipment.