Show me your reloading press quick change setups

[Ledd Slinger]

@ Ledd Slinger
If you don't mind, can you tell me how you use the Forster Co-Ax for?

I want a Co-Ax but need some kind of justification before I take the plunge.
Like you, I have a Redding T7, RCBS RC2, arbor press and Wilson Microadjust seater dies for rifles, Progressive press for pistols and a Lee challenger press mainly for depriming. TIA

Good question. I owned the RCBS and Coax before the T7. I use the Coax for seating and universal depriming because I can change the dies out so fast and the S-jaws are awesome. Use the RCBS for my heavy duty grunt work like FL sizing and primer pocket swaging.

However.....

I bought my T7 and had it for about 2 years before I finally started setting it up with dies in the turrets. I found that the T7 can do the job of both the Coax and RCBS quite easily, and do it faster. Priming and disposing of spent primers is much faster than the methods used by the other two presses. Changing dies is also way faster, unless I have to swap turrets of course.

I keep the Coax and RCBS around for initial testing new rounds or reloading for friends and family. The T7 turrets are for MY rifles and it produces very accurate ammo.

The Lee turret press is strictly for handgun reloading because I don't demand the same precision from them as I do my rifles. Although I have used the LEE for varmint rifles in the past and it actually produced surprisingly good ammo. Not quite as good as the Coax, RCBS, and T7, but plenty accurate enough for a varmint rifle.

Some of my rifles have custom chambered seating dies that were made from Wilson Micrometer blanks so I seat bullets with those in a 21st Century Gen 2 arbor press.

I would be willing to say that my T7 and Arbor press is all I really need, but I honestly like them all and each press does still serve a purpose for me. If you already have all the other presses, I don't think the Coax will really offer you any major additional benefits to your arsenal. I wouldn't have bought the Coax if I owned all the other presses first

 

[Nature Boy]

I have dedicated tool heads for my Dillon 650

 

[davecb]

Here is how mine is mounted. I wanted a larger footprint to spread the load out on my counter top. I mounted the plate with six 1/4" grade 8 countersunk bolts that go through the table. I drilled and tapped the plate and installed two 3/8" countersunk bolts from the backside. I just use 3/8" locknuts and washers to hold the press down. I don't plan on removing it so I used the countersunk bolts from the back side. You could use studs instead and just screw them in and out as needed.

Dave

 

[Linko]

Please excuse my messy bench. I'm having trouble getting my wife to keep it clean and organized.

I installed a T-Track in the workbench top and made 1 1/2" thick (3/4 doubled) high density particleboard mounting boards and wrapped them in plastic laminate. Works great.

Nice and neat.

Press looks like it could load artillery shells!

 

[Linko]

Yes. Very simple to make and inexpensive. I use the bench for general gun work so wanted the top to be flush and without holes for screws and such to fall thru. Seems to be working well. Nothing left but the flush bolt heads. I drilled the holes in the top oversize so the stainless bolts just sit in the holes for easy in and out. No real need for them to be screwed to the tee nuts.

Terry
You are the master of details! Great ideas.

That is the first I have seen your tube gun, nice.

 

[Linko]

Well here is mine, real easy to pull a press or remove the whole thing without any holes in the bench. I have the same setup for my vise and rcbs case trimers.

I started wih a single height plywood shelf and it has grown to a three tier kluge of a shelving unit. I planned to replace with the Melanie shelves like yours. I think it's time.

I have been using plywood bases and c- clamps for my presses and things for a while since I was unsure about how I wanted to make a more permanent method. Didn't want to drill in the butcher block and regret my decision. Terry's method looks to be the best mounting method. Now to decide where to drill the first hole!!!

I use my Lee for decapping. The Co-Ax for some sizing, seating, expanding. And the Dillon for handgun and bulk 223 plinking rounds.

 

[josh shrum]

Wife asked me to relocate my reloading room to a different part of the house, said I could buy whatever I needed to make it look good. So I added to my pile of stuff from Dan at Inline Fabrication!

This is my progress so far, I should be done by the end of the weekend.

 

[TerryH]

Terry
You are the master of details! Great ideas.

That is the first I have seen your tube gun, nice.

Thanks Linko! I built show cars/trucks for years and it apparently never quite gets out of the blood. The 6.5 CM RPR is a ton of fun to shoot. I've hit out to 1140 with it. Vortex Golden Eagle, PVA 26" match barrel etc... We did the paintwork in my shop as usual.

 

[orbitup]

I miss having a body shop, I used to paint everything.

Well, that's one of the few things I miss anyway.

 

[TerryH]

I miss having a body shop, I used to paint everything.

Well, that's one of the few things I miss anyway.

I've been on every side of this deal. Owned my own shop which I sold in 1998 to be an independent appraiser. Did that for 15 years. Spent the last few years running a shop for a multiple shop organization owned by an incredible group of guys. Moved into a brand new shop last September. Absolutely love it. Plan to be here until I'm done working. Plus the perks of getting a bunch of guns painted.

 

['Freak]

Thanks Linko! I built show cars/trucks for years and it apparently never quite gets out of the blood. The 6.5 CM RPR is a ton of fun to shoot. I've hit out to 1140 with it. Vortex Golden Eagle, PVA 26" match barrel etc... We did the paintwork in my shop as usual.

How ‘bout some detail pics of the “Shock Therapy” racing machine?

 

[TerryH]

How ‘bout some detail pics of the “Shock Therapy” racing machine?

My wife says my hobby is hobbies. lol... Got interested in golf cart racing a few years ago. No, that's not a typo. The little dragster is basically a very short (90" wheelbase) dragster chassis with a golf cart motor and rear end. Electric powered. Lithium Cobalt battery pack. Basically 30 drone batteries. 468 lbs without me. Produced 291 hp from a golf cart motor. Ran best of 6.54 @ 102 in the 1/8th. Still holds some records. As racing goes, we got what my buddy calls "internet famous" in 2014 by crashing in a bit of a spectacular way. I flipped it over backwards and it rotated 180 degrees and hit on it's top. The video went viral. Got us a trip to be on the Fast and Loud boys video show Demolition Theater, I did a bunch of pod casts and such. Still shows up in wheelie video's all the time. Had a ball with the dragster we deemed "Quiet Riot" after the crash. It's sitting in storage in South Carolina now waiting on a racing museum spot where it will live indefintely.





Battery pack. 11x13x8.5. Weighs 55 lbs. It's not as complicated as it looks. lol..



These are what's in the battery box.



The last alliteration of motors. Nothing golf cart left but the case. Pretty much a Frankenstein by this point. We tore up a lot of parts getting this to work. 2000 motor amps and 220 motor volts with this setup.



my wife ahs been with me every step of the way for going on 34 years. She's put up with a lot. She's the most incredible person I've ever known.



However she was not very happy with me after this deal. Basically a very bad tuning decision on my part coupled with a very sticky track. We proved that night just how much torque the little dragster has. I was ok other than being crazy sore for a while. I fixed the dragster and was back at it a few weeks later.



The crash video. Fee free to fast forward to about a minute.

 

[Linko]

I can't top that stunt!

Here is my new and improved shelving setup. A lot cleaner than my Little Rascals plywood shelf.

 

['Freak]

Had a ball with the dragster we deemed "Quiet Riot" after the crash. It's sitting in storage in South Carolina now waiting on a racing museum spot where it will live indefintely.

Wheelie bars!!! Imagine that …

Luv it. Thanks fer the show.

 

[V509]

My presss are bolted to my bench with either 2 or 3 bolts. Not very time consuming to remove 3 bolts with an end wrench and ratchet

 

[TerryH]

Had a ball with the dragster we deemed "Quiet Riot" after the crash. It's sitting in storage in South Carolina now waiting on a racing museum spot where it will live indefintely.

Wheelie bars!!! Imagine that …

Luv it. Thanks fer the show.

lol... Those were wife mandated after the "incident." It really doesn't need them as long as the tuner/driver isn't an idiot.

 

[orbitup]

That's awesome Terry!

 

[Zero333]

Here is my non permanent press.

Stand made from 2"x8" MSR-2400 and wood screws

 

[1lnbrdg]

The small reloading area I had in the house I lived at 18 yrs ago, had my presses bolted to a 2X6" piece of angle-iron with a piece of 1" square tubing welded to it. Had a piece of 1" ID square tubing bolted into-thru my bench, like a bumper receiver hitch. I had a 3/4" nut/hole arrangement that tightened against the inserted tubing that tightened everything up.