So maybe you have an entire basement for your reloading. Or perhaps just a corner of the kitchen table.
Most of us wind up with some (semi-)permanent place for all our loading gear, even if just to have somewhere to mount a decent press.
Having started with the kitchen table route, I now have a small room fitted with a scaled-down version of the National Reloading Manufacturers Association bench. Speaking of which, whatever happened to the NRMA? They published these excellent plans for a bench years ago but I can find nothing else about them on-line.
I would need a fish-eye lens (the ones real estate agents use to make the smallest space look like a ballroom) to photograph it properly, but here is a view of the bench with press:
It is an internal room, with no windows so I needed some way to light it. The original incandescent bulb was fine when it was a wardrobe (its original use) but made the room quite warm, especially in the summer.
Adding LED strip lighting above the bench makes it much cooler and the light is brighter and more even, not to mention being more compact. Makes a real difference, especially after a few hours, and when trying to read markings and small measurements.
You are probably wondering about the white tape on the posts of the Ammomaster press, at least, I hope so, since that is the point of this post! The tape has a series of LEDs embedded in it. When you flip the switch…
Makes a real difference being able to see everything clearly. It was a little fiddly to wrap around each post, but once done it gives you all the light you could need.
