Thread: Reloading press repair

Good bastards @Tommy and @Glycerine gave me a collection of reloading gear, including a Lee press.

As I was mounting it to the bench, I noticed one corner of the base was broken off, right through one of the three mounting holes. I mounted it anyway, and had a go at depriming/sizing a few cases, and the press was flaccid as. This would not do.





I hatched a plan to repair the damage and reinforce the base using materials I had on hand (helps to have a decent set of facilities at work too).

I wish I took more photos of the process, but in short, I used Devcon (aluminium filled epoxy) to glue the broken corner back on, then once that had cured, used more Devcon to bond the press to a piece of 8mm Aluminium diamond plate, with countersunk bolts up through the existing mounting holes in the press.













All that's left to do is drill new mounting holes in the corners of the diamond plate and mount the thing. Should be sturdy as.