Thread: Show us your reloading bench

Compared to a lot of you guys my bench is basic, but it gets the job done.

Originally Posted by Beavis

I could imagine that, surely what the average handloader has doesn't cause that much of an added danger?

What is average? How is it stored?

Mine is in containers along the top shelf above the loading bench in the garage. About 15lb all up, although that includes an 8lb jug of 748.

If it burns it will be unconfined.

I've seen plenty of people store powder in a safe or other steel box that is likely to pressurize and explode like a bomb if involved in a fire.

Originally Posted by BRADS

Youve never been to good garage fire that had loads of ammo in it then....
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I def haven't but if this comprehensive test is anything to go by, it could be a pop-popping experience, def not an explosion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c

Originally Posted by 6x47

I def haven't but if this comprehensive test is anything to go by, it could be a pop-popping experience, def not an explosion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c

No explosion......never said there was did I? But when your standing there holding the branch and they start cooking off....I could think of better places to be😉

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My humble reloading area, a far cry from the pistol weilding 3 gun toting hey days of blue 1050's rattling away!
These days I much prefer to stand and putter away one round at a time with the likes of the Wilson or the SS redding



I traded down from buckets of brass to little green boxes, all my shit can go in a tool box and come inside with me on wet dismal nights.

Originally Posted by Beavis

There's pretty much no danger of smokeless rifle propellant causing an explosion. Even more so when it is assembled into ammunition. Anyone who has ever burnt it will know its a non event. The bottle of meths, turps and my 10ltr of petrol in my garage would be significantly more volatile.

I heard of a guy lighting an entire bundle of cordite out of a 3 foot shell, no movie-like explosion...

Some of you fellas have some pretty flash setups one of the downfalls of our job is we don't live in our own place so I make do with an old bench with stuff strewn about the place in the garage, would like to set up a dedicated room one day.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Some of you fellas have some pretty flash setups one of the downfalls of our job is we don't live in our own place so I make do with an old bench with stuff strewn about the place in the garage, would like to set up a dedicated room one day.

Attachment 60875

Looks dedicated to me>
KH

Mine just sits on top of my safe away from all the other flammable stuff.

My current powder stock is 34 cans at around 15.5 kg. I keep maybe 2 cans at most at hand for current reloading, the rest are stored in a "facility" well away from the house. I also have a reasonable quantity of black powder stored in another place well away from the house. Likewise no lawnmower fuel is stored in my attached garage. Powder and primers are stored apart from each other. Paranoia huh? Regardless of whether smokeless powder burns or explodes I have no wish to get involved in a scrap with my insurance company if something untoward should happen. I am aware of people who store their powder in old metal ammo boxes - the worst thing to do as the powder is contained. Refer to Vihtavuori's recommendations for storage. But even uncontained powder will still burn quite vigorously in the open. If you have ever scrapped pistol or shotgun powder by burning you will know what I mean. If I have to dump any powder nowadays (rare) I just throw it on the lawn.

You throw it on the lawn? Dose that make the lawnmower go faster?

Originally Posted by Sideshow

You throw it on the lawn? Dose that make the lawnmower go faster?

Nah, quite the opposite, slows the lawnmower down when it reaches the higher better growing patches of grass. Akin to pissing under a lemon tree.

After following this thread i'm going to put all my spare petrol ,deisel and reloading powder in a shed away from my garage where it currently is.

Hi Guys, mines just a little corner of bench space, the rest is work shop stuff needed for making rifle barrels and the rifles. Just half my garage.
, the reloading and smithing shop.

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

Hi Guys, mines just a little corner of bench space, the rest is work shop stuff needed for making rifle barrels and the rifles. Just half my garage.
Attachment 60925, the reloading and smithing shop.

yeah but you probably make your own brass from brass discs.....