Thread: Reloading room and equipment upgrade - basically finished.

An update to my previous post on upgrading my reloading equipment and room: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....st-step-84689/

Haven't really taken progress pics but finished two solid tables with rata frame and solid beech top and it kind of snowballed from there...
Decided to make a set of drawers for storage and to have cleaning station.
Then decided to make a small rifle rack for setting down rifles on when getting stuff ready for the range or hunting.
Then decided to make some solid macrocarpa shelves to store the components in for easy access.
Then made a stand and organised for the small tools, equipment, and books on the main desk.

Main desk - set up with the main press, powder thrower and a mount for the case trimmer.



Second press - a lee press permanently set up for depriming which keeps the main press clean, and the Dillon Square Deal-B for pumping out the 44-40 when I've been having it running hot. Lee press gets dismounted for using the Dillon. Super quick to remove and move things around with the threaded inserts in the table.



Set of drawers with the surface covered with neoprene for cleaning.
Cleaning road rack on the left side of the shelves.


Pretty happy about the set up so far. A few more things to sort out but already loaded up a whole bunch of 45-70 black powder missiles and the rigidity of the tables is amazing.

Don't drip any solvent on the neoprene, it'll dissolve and create a phenomenal hua of a mess the likes of which you've never encountered before... The rubber goes like a silicone sealant that only partially cured and doesn't want to come off. It's just bad no matter how you look at it! The rest looks pretty mean though.

Originally Posted by No.3

Don't drip any solvent on the neoprene, it'll dissolve and create a phenomenal hua of a mess the likes of which you've never encountered before... The rubber goes like a silicone sealant that only partially cured and doesn't want to come off. It's just bad no matter how you look at it! The rest looks pretty mean though.

I was worried about this as well. So I tested samples and it's unreactive to eezox, ballistol, boretech copper remover and boretech eliminator. The four flavours of sauce I use.

Ha - wait until you end up with something unusual there and it dissolves on you! I had a recycled tyre mat in the back of a loan ute that replaced a company one for a while. The bloody assistant knocked over a container of 98 petrol. It literally ate the rubber in seconds, straight through... Normally we used 91 and that didn't do anything to the mat at all. The problem with neo is it's a manufactured rubber which means it contains solvents etc etc - these react with certain things and are ok with others and sometimes it's a surprise as to what sets it off.

Originally Posted by No.3

Ha - wait until you end up with something unusual there and it dissolves on you! I had a recycled tyre mat in the back of a loan ute that replaced a company one for a while. The bloody assistant knocked over a container of 98 petrol. It literally ate the rubber in seconds, straight through... Normally we used 91 and that didn't do anything to the mat at all. The problem with neo is it's a manufactured rubber which means it contains solvents etc etc - these react with certain things and are ok with others and sometimes it's a surprise as to what sets it off.

yup what ya spill can be a right bastard - my kids spilt a bottle of mosquito repellant in the plastic compartment of my mitsubishi - bloody ate it - I dont use the crap - garlic and beer works for me - read the label on the crap said dont get near plastics