Building the Perfect Reloading Room

southernpew said:

The room seems to be only get smaller. I thought 16’x8’ would be sufficient. I never had everything in the same place until now, so I miscalculated lol.

Just built the powder shelf, planned on 1 8’ shelf, then kept finding more powder. So 2 8’ shelves with 3 3’ shelves later it’s in the room

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southernpew said:

The room seems to be only get smaller. I thought 16’x8’ would be sufficient. I never had everything in the same place until now, so I miscalculated lol.

Just built the powder shelf, planned on 1 8’ shelf, then kept finding more powder. So 2 8’ shelves with 3 3’ shelves later it’s in the room

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GunnyUSMC said:

It is amazing to me how a reloading bench/room can evolve so dramatically. I have a small 6x10 "gun room" where i did casual reloading and then after getting into precision long range competitions and supporting 4 different calibers for competition as well as a few others for casual shooting, i quickly outgrew the room. Like here, I have accumulated a dozen different powders, shelves of primers (pistol and rifle) dies, cleaning equipment, not to mention the press, trimmer, annealer, arbor press.... and on and on and on...

someday i want to grow up and have a room like yours

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snbyiggidy1 said:

We moved back in November. Downsized some which overall is great though I lost my dedicated reloading room. Now I am working on setting up the garage space to accommodate the normal garage things plus a home office work station and reloading room. Decided to build custom cabinets using 3/4 inch cabinet grade birch plywood. So far I have an ammo storage cabinet and gun case cabinet done. View attachment 8670049
Finishing it all in grey. Used inline fab wall mounts and tool head holders mounted to side of ammo cabinet to hold Dillon 550 tool heads.
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Two other tall cabinets for random storage along with power inside for case tumblers and dryers giving me a dedicated place to do some case prep. Fit a couple doors just to make sure my plan for doors worked. All cabinets will have doors. Did a small cabinet for spray paint, car wax, and other similar items.
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This area also has a cabinet with five drawers with slides and fronts to come. This attaches to a safe enclosure built to match everything else. This area is open below so I can sit at the counter as this will have a computer as my home office and I work from home a couple days per week. Work surface will be two layers of 3/4 ply with laminate top. Have first layer of plywood is down. View attachment 8670058
Safe cabinet will get doors like the rest.
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Have two cabinets planned to store parts, powder, brass, bullets, and primers. Have one done and one to go. Sort of an odd cabinet with the bottom cut out but the swinging inner cabinet is way too heavy loaded to not be supported by some wheels. Which is why the bottom slot was cut in order to allow the wheels to work.
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And the current final cabinet is a trash can slide with small parts storage bins on the front. When I do the work top over it I plan to drill a hole and put a trash flange in so I can easily throw trash into it or even sweep the work surface into the trash bin. Still needs the slides mounted.
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BuildingConceptsllc said:

looks like you are well on your way. make sure you have enough brass and bullet storage space, I have s decent sized closet in my room just for brass and bullets and still run out of room. nice set up. are you going to out a split ac in it later? if you have it conditioned it will pretty much be like a dedicated loading room won't it?

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Top O' Texas said:

i label my 550 toolheads also like you do. great minds...........well you know the rest looks good!

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