Originally Posted by roninwsnc

Yes indeed, my wife never said "YOU ARE GOING TO BLOW THE HOUSE UP!"... LOL !!!

But, her father was an old time plumber and worked with lead a lot. She was worried that I would get into casting my own bullets which could produce an accidental fire or poisoning. I assured her that I had no interest in casting my own bullets. She still did not want me to do any reloading activities in our regular living areas. This limited me to our unheated or cooled garage. I agreed. I already had a light duty workbench in one corner. I thought it might be sufficient.

I was eager to try out the new single stage press and 30-06 dies I had just bought. I bolted down the press to my flimsy workbench and tried to full length resize a once fired 30-06 case. I almost ripped my light duty workbench off the wall. Clearly, I needed a much stronger workbench. I re-cycled the wood from my original workbench. The boards became storage shelves above my new workbench made out of 2 X 4 studs.

Here's a link to a PDF file about my reloading workbench that I posted on another forum. It is mostly a letter I wrote to my sister and her husband about how I became interested in target shooting again in my old age. It contains some photos of my two workbenches. A small portion of my original workbench can be seen when I was restoring my Dad's old deer rifle. The others are of my new workbench just after I completed it and about a year later.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-O...WzebK17b9gqtTb

Stay Safe,
Ron