Press mounting soultion

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Hey all, I have been looking for ways to securely mount my press to my bench but still have the ability to remove the press & powder measurer since I have limited work space.

I tried mounting the press to a section of plywood and then clamping the plywood to the bench, it worked ok but it was actually a pain to find a place to put the press attached to the hunk of plywood when it wasn't in use, well I was looking around the web and found the Lee bench plate, its a mounting device to allows you to attach the press to a plate, then you slide the plate with the press attached to a mounting bracket that you attach to the bench.... it was a step the right direction but I would still have to permanently mount something to the bench.

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I ran across a video of a guy that used a system he created to secure his presses and it lead me to a solution that works for me.

I found these at Lowes.

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I used the Lee bench plate mounting holes as a template and drilled the 4 holes through the bench top, I then put these through the bottom of the bench top and used a bolt with washers on it to draw the teeth up into the bottom of the bench and then mounted the Lee bench plate mounting system to the bench with 5/8 threaded clamp handles, so now I have a quick and easy way to mount and remove my press and powder measurer without having to lose so much bench space!

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All secured and it is rock solid to boot!

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Good solution. I've found Inline Fabrication has some nice kit for organizing your reloading bench:

https://inlinefabrication.com/

I went with a unltramount and have top plates for all my presses, case trimmers, Dillon swager, etc.

Good call on the Lee powder thrower. It may not be expensive, but it will throw a nice consistent charge weight. I have five of them set for various powders and charges I reload, rather than resetting it each time.
 
Make your own. If I went with wider angle iron, I could have make a disconnect system or just unbolt it.
 

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At my old place, I had a single-stage press bolted to a length of 2x4. When I wanted to reload, I simply clamped it into the end vise on my woodworking bench. The vise was a 2-screw one with a wood jaw that pressed against the edge of the bench; the 2x4 sat a smidgen above benchtop height when resting on the screws & guide bars. I never had it shift on me - rock solid for single-stage reloading.

I attached the powder dispenser and a Zip-trim to a piece of 3/4" ply & screwed a ?? 1" x1" maybe? -- strip to the underside, then clamped that into the front vise on the other side of the bench. Both rigs were within easy reach when sitting between them, and, when done, I just unclamped 'em & stuck 'em under the benchtop (I'd built a cabinet under it that left a 5" or so gap btw top of cabinet & underside of benchtop - the catch-all shelf).

Wish I had pics...
 
Hey all, I have been looking for ways to securely mount my press to my bench but still have the ability to remove the press & powder measurer since I have limited work space.

Looks great!

I sorta followed along the same lines with mine, but used steel spacers.

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Put a shelf underneath the bench for storage...

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