Compact Reloading Bench Project

[rbeau30]

Well, I do not have a whole lot of room to put a bench, plus I rent, so I don't want to drill some holes in the workbench in my garage.

I found several examples of what I did, I just thought perhaps the info here might help someone out.

I got a Workmate 225 for $49.99 from homedepot.com.

I used 3/8" bolts/nuts/washers throughout the project, along with 2" wood screws.
I also got that really crappy (warped as heck) wood board 25" wide by 1" thick by 6 foot long. It is the stuff where they glue a bunch of 1x4x6 ft together side by side to get a real wide piece of lumber. Not one of these were straight.

I doubled up the table top with the board to create a thick top to mount my press onto. The table top boards were so warped I had to put some gorilla glue and bolt them down at each board to get the sandwich to be real straight.

The sides were screwed from the bottom and from the sides to get a solid/straight box.

Looks like it is going to work for my uses, however the collapsing function does not work well as the top is very heavy now.