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Mounting press at an angle

Rick300

Rick300

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I just finished getting a new reloading bench and have been using a temporary mounting plate with C clamps to get the presses where I like them. I am now looking to permanently mount them with either T slots or an Inline Fabrication quick change system. Ever since I started reloading in the eighties, I have always angled the press towards me and have found that I like that way better than mounting straight.
Why does it seem most folks prefer their presses perpendicular to the bench? It feels awkward to me.
Can the Inline Fabrication mount or the T slots allow for angled mounting?
 
Angled side to side or angled up an down?

I would think you could modify anything to fit your needs, depending on what that need is would determine the amount of modification required.
 
Rick300 said:
I just finished getting a new reloading bench and have been using a temporary mounting plate with C clamps to get the presses where I like them. I am now looking to permanently mount them with either T slots or an Inline Fabrication quick change system. Ever since I started reloading in the eighties, I have always angled the press towards me and have found that I like that way better than mounting straight.
Why does it seem most folks prefer their presses perpendicular to the bench? It feels awkward to me.
Can the Inline Fabrication mount or the T slots allow for angled mounting?
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That's why they put rollers on office chairs.:rolleyes:
 
AllenOne1 said:
Angled side to side or angled up an down?

I would think you could modify anything to fit your needs, depending on what that need is would determine the amount of modification required.
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Yes, I know I Can modify it, but I'm a little concerned if I use the quick mount I will have too much overhang to use all of the bolts. I'm going to give them a call and see what they say.
 
Rick300 said:
I just finished getting a new reloading bench and have been using a temporary mounting plate with C clamps to get the presses where I like them. I am now looking to permanently mount them with either T slots or an Inline Fabrication quick change system. Ever since I started reloading in the eighties, I have always angled the press towards me and have found that I like that way better than mounting straight.
Why does it seem most folks prefer their presses perpendicular to the bench? It feels awkward to me.
Can the Inline Fabrication mount or the T slots allow for angled mounting?
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That is because nobody wants the lever swinging toward their body. Your body is in the way. They want it swinging so that the lever ends up on your side, where there is plenty of room. That is sort of like why do I see that people having to pull their car into the gas station with the driver's door to the pump, a place where you have no room to get out and can swing your door into the pump or island, maybe doing damage. My gas cap is on the passenger side, the proper side. You have room to get out and aren't swinging your door into anything.

Danny
 
nawahine said:
Rick,

Love your avatar. I thought it was a bug on my screen that had 10 lives,,,
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Sorry, but that bug gives me the creeps! I need to explain why. It’s my first summer in my new home in Texas. I’m learning a few things! I worked around the property a few weeks ago, cleaning up fallen trees and limbs. At the end of a long day, I came in and sat down with a cold drink. As I cooled off, I started to itch. I figured it was just the normal sweat itch and ignored it. Got a shower, put the same pants back on, had dinner and eventually went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night, itching like crazy.
The next morning, I look myself over and I have bites every where. Big red itchy bites. CHIGGERS!!! Nobody warned me about Chiggers. My wife got up and mentions something bit her in the night. Oh crap! I tell her what I think happened and there was a heck of a “dust up”. She had me strip the bed so she could wash everything three times, hose the room with bug spray and call the bug guy to spray the yard. Now there’s new rules before I can come in the house from the yard.
 
You have given me food for thought. Not the bug, but the question. I can't see any advantage to angling it other than for easier leverage, but doubt that what I am doing needs the extra leverage. BTW- I got a 70 in high school physics.
 
Rick300 said:
I just finished getting a new reloading bench and have been using a temporary mounting plate with C clamps to get the presses where I like them. I am now looking to permanently mount them with either T slots or an Inline Fabrication quick change system. Ever since I started reloading in the eighties, I have always angled the press towards me and have found that I like that way better than mounting straight.
Why does it seem most folks prefer their presses perpendicular to the bench? It feels awkward to me.
Can the Inline Fabrication mount or the T slots allow for angled mounting?
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CHANGE YOUR AVATAR!!!:eek: it almost got me again:rolleyes:,LOLOLOL!!!!!!!
 
Darn, you have me over thinking again!!!! I might tip the press back, I use shims on collet dies and often don't get the shell all the way back in the shell holder. Tipping the press back would help.

What bug? Isn't it my floater?

Bill
 
I have two Dillons permanently mounted on 3/16" steel plates. My single stage press gets swapped from time to time with MEC shot shell loading presses
The simplest method for me was to buy the MEC mounting bracket the cut another piece of 3/16" plate that slides into it. I attach the press with flat head screws so they don't interfere with the bracket. Have been using this method for many years, the mount is solid. YMMV
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That's what I used. And the entire east wall of my home. It's all gone.
I'm still slipping on spent cases.
 
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