Andy Tessler
02-15-2008, 10:12 PM
I'm putting together a reloading bench for the basement and am trying to avoid drilling through the top and mounting my presses the old fashioned way. My initial plan was to rout a 10x10x3/4" square for an insert and bolt it in with t-nuts and knobs. Then I ran into the klamp track at the toy store yesterday...
My press (Hornady LNL AP) mounts with two 5/16" bolts through a flange on the rear, would the souped-up klamp track or woodpecker's super track be too flimsy for what I'm thinking? The bench top is 3/4 borg hw ply sandwiching one sheet of 3/4 MDF with 4x4 douglas fir for the bench legs/stretchers. If the track would hold up I'd use kreg clamps/heavy toggle clamps/t-clamps to hold down the press after mounting it up on a small square of whatever ply or phenolic. I'm trying to keep the bench useful in the weeks and months between stretches of loading a bunch of ammo and be able to clamp down other bench tools when needed.
Any yeas/nays before I destroy a $45 section of rail?
My press (Hornady LNL AP) mounts with two 5/16" bolts through a flange on the rear, would the souped-up klamp track or woodpecker's super track be too flimsy for what I'm thinking? The bench top is 3/4 borg hw ply sandwiching one sheet of 3/4 MDF with 4x4 douglas fir for the bench legs/stretchers. If the track would hold up I'd use kreg clamps/heavy toggle clamps/t-clamps to hold down the press after mounting it up on a small square of whatever ply or phenolic. I'm trying to keep the bench useful in the weeks and months between stretches of loading a bunch of ammo and be able to clamp down other bench tools when needed.
Any yeas/nays before I destroy a $45 section of rail?