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    That’s great. I’m thinking a lot about a tool box on wheels these days.

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    Nice job! A roll around base has really helped me out over the years. Never installed the wheels but instead installed 2x4 “skids” to provide stability and resistance to sliding. I first used it as a reloading bench while temporarily living in a fifth wheel trailer. I mounted a Rock Chucker on a riser so the top drawer would still open. A shelf at eye level provided a place for the powder scale. The drawers were great storage for primers, bullets and tools. I chose to only load for two rifle and two handgun cartridges at the time to limit the amount of supplies I had to have on hand.

    Once I bought another house and built a proper reloading room the roll around was converted to the boolit sizing station.

    One thing I learned was that the drawer slides on the bottom of the line roll around were very marginal. It was an inexpensive Craftsman that was on sale. It’s worth spending a few more bucks to get ball bearing slides or at least heavy duty slides without ball bearings. A drawer full of bullets really strained the low end slides.
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    Like the rolling casting bench. I setup a similar reloading bench using a metal table with 3 drawers from Lowe's. Top 2 drawers for misc. stuff like powder bowel, meter and bullet puller. All my dies are in the black plastic cabinets on the sides. Added wood shelves to store bullets. I am just getting started into bullet casting and have an area similar to yours I will have to develop for reloading Click image for larger version. 

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lost Oki View Post
    Like the rolling casting bench. I setup a similar reloading bench using a metal table with 3 drawers from Lowe's. Top 2 drawers for misc. stuff like powder bowel, meter and bullet puller. All my dies are in the black plastic cabinets on the sides. Added wood shelves to store bullets. I am just getting started into bullet casting and have an area similar to yours I will have to develop for reloading Click image for larger version. 

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    I really like the rolling cart for casting - it is pretty humid here and I really like keeping my stuff inside with low humidity. It is nice to also have everything together. In my last house, I kept my stuff inside and would take it out to a workbench on a balcony. It worked nicely, but this is much better.
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    I built a small rolling bench mounted my presses on each end and the melting pot is on the top. Have a cabinet underneath for supplies. Going to be moving into a new place there I have a large A/C shed so I will be redoing this into a larger bench.
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    Nice. I did the same thing decades ago; craftsman metal work bench. It has two pots & my star sizer mounted to it, drawers for molds & such.
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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check