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New reloading room

nakneker

nakneker

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I am out growing my reloading room. I don't shoot competition but I am thinking about which will compound the need for something bigger..I'm headed to the Berger shoot next month to learn more. Anyways I am going to build a stand alone reloading room. I was thinking about just buying a 40 foot container and running juice to it but I think I will build a CMU block building instead. The room I'm in now is 12x14.

I'm wondering what works best for others? Do you set up so you have areas for reloading, cleaning, brass prep, storage or do you like to save room and set up for each duty? I have an idea of what I want to do but I know there are others who have better ideas and have been down this road before. If you dont mind posting a pic of your set up even better. I like the idea of having separate stations/areas for each stage of reloading/cleaning.

Id like to have room for my rock chucker, add a forster co ax, I have a couple arbor presses too. I have the basic brass prep equipment but I will be adding to it. I have a couple digital scales and a chargemaster. Storage is a big deal, I built cabinets for the room I have now that houses bullets, powder, primers and other things but I need more. I use the room to store hunting equipment too, optics, slings, knives, knife sharpening and so on.

Any ideas appreciated.
 
It seems that no matter how much room you have, it's never enough, and you've obviously realized that there's always another piece of gear. For those reasons, I'd recommend looking at Inline Fabrication's stuff; I really appreciate the mounting systems that I've bought from Dan. His quick-change mount system is a nice solution to a number of problems.
 
Albany Mountain said:
No details but I am a competitor and have pretty well finished the new room, what is designed officially by the family as the MAN CAVE. some before and after pix.




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What a gorgeous job my friend. I wish Albany mountain was in new York state just to see it with my eyes. Fantastic!
 
alb said:
It seems that no matter how much room you have, it's never enough, and you've obviously realized that there's always another piece of gear. For those reasons, I'd recommend looking at Inline Fabrication's stuff; I really appreciate the mounting systems that I've bought from Dan. His quick-change mount system is a nice solution to a number of problems.
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Nice website with good ideas.

https://inlinefabrication.com/

Thanks!
 
I just built mine into my house as we just finished our house in May..

I have a separate area/stage for each thing in order..

Brass prep station, trimming station, nevk turn station, concentricity guage station, loading station, bullet seating station next to that...

Then i got a resizing and depriming station, on the other side is a work top for doing anything, next to it is the handgun station.

I got cabinets all on the walls so everything i dont need all the time is put up and organized...

Works great, start with a batch of brass and just move along. I dont have updated pics, but its my man cave.. could be bigger, but im lucky to have what i have.
 
What are you having problem fitting in the current room? Mine is about 12x13 plus a little vault room for the safe and components. More storage helps make the most of any area. Cabinets and shelves are huge to maximizing the area you currently have. Now if I had to fit my lathe and mill in there I would need a little more room also.
 
Geno C said:
What are you having problem fitting in the current room? Mine is about 12x13 plus a little vault room for the safe and components. More storage helps make the most of any area. Cabinets and shelves are huge to maximizing the area you currently have. Now if I had to fit my lathe and mill in there I would need a little more room also.
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The cabinets you see in the pics are crammed full. The shelving on both sides, full, plus there's a lot of items I stored down at the barn, safe is full. It's not a have to thing, it would just be nice to add a couple of safes and have enough room to have separate stations to work in. Plus we keep a bed in there, we have seven children and when they visit we need all the room we can get. Just makes sense to turn that into a bedroom and build a larger space where everything could be kept and locked in one area.
 
Ain't nothing wrong with that!! I'm more of a poured wall kind of guy but block works too. The ability to put a shipping container wherever you want is nice also. You also don't have to pay any increased propert tax on those. A nice covered shooting bench on top maybe even boxed in with windows. Now that's a plan.
 
Geno C said:
Ain't nothing wrong with that!! I'm more of a poured wall kind of guy but block works too. The ability to put a shipping container wherever you want is nice also. You also don't have to pay any increased propert tax on those. A nice covered shooting bench on top maybe even boxed in with windows. Now that's a plan.
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All good ideas. CMU with concrete fill and rebar is a cheap option for me. I have the materials left over from other jobs, and my block layer likes to trade, good for both of us.
 
The price of a sea container will buy a Lot of block. A friend of mine went the container route ,what a miserable thing to be in and work on.
Any how,give some thought to what you like
to do sitting , and plan to have room under that area for your legs.
 
When I built my house I used 30x36 span creek cement (not sure on spelling) for my garage. The entire basement below is my reloading room. I sectioned off a 20x20 room, studded and sheet rocked walls with insulation. In floor heating with rapid air exchanger to control humidity as well as ac and gas heat if needed. Humidity usually around 32-35 percent year round. It's basically a huge cement vault with two doors.
 
I use products from in LineFabrication to minimize the bench space I need. I store the presses under my bench.

If you are going to build using a shipping container check out " Insofast " it is insulation that is designed for this application. It has raceways for wiring and fortified strips for mounting dry wall or what ever wall material.

Awesome pictures of that reloading room.
 
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