How to store presses using Inline Fabrication Quick Change plate?

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Hello, I currently have 2 presses mounted on the table (Lee Progressive and Lee Turret) plus a vice I just purchased that I haven't mounted yet.

I was thinking about getting a single stage for precision reloading and possible in the future other gadgets like the Dillon Swage 600 but I don't have any more space to have all of this mounted at the same time.

After doing some research I found the Inline Fabrication Quick Change system which looks exactly what I need that way when I'm not using the presses I can put them away keeping my desk much cleaner.

Now the question is, how do most people store this presses with the quick change plate? I think they will probably tip over if you just place them at the edge of a shelf or table.

Do people usually buy one extra base plate for each press to store them? Or is there a cheaper option?

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
 
They have a storage bracket which is basically just a piece of angle iron with a slot in it. (I made mine) It can mount on a wall or the face of a bench. The downside is these plates soon start to add up price wise. I got mine with the idea of moving my dillon out of the way. The dillon is such a monster, I scrubbed that idea. The dillon is now permanently mounted and I use the plates for my single stage and the vice.
 
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I don't like it. I saw a fellow that had added a couple of jig rails, like Lee Valley sells, and route a couple of grooves into the bench top. Glue them in and then mount each press etc on a 1/4 alu plate that will then attach to flanged bolts. This gives you a 48" strip of bench to use and reshuffle presses.
 
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The idea of the Quick Change Plates is very attractive to those of us who have more presses than bench top space.

I have 5 presses at home and one on loan to a friend and no space to have easy access to them in the small space left to me in the spider infested basement "man cave". :) I don't mind the spiders. They insure I don't get interrupted every few minutes.

Also thinking of QCP mounting a drill press vice and and a bench grinder in garage.

Cost does add up.

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I am in the same boat. I have 6 or 7 presses to mount. I made an alu plate and drilled and tapped it for all my presses then I went out and bought a Dillon 650 and there is no way I can mount it on the plate hence my comments about a home made solution. I might just make a new plate that can take them all, I do have a drawing for it somewhere.
 
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Same here. I was thinking of using this 0.750' thick 45" long x 10 3/4" wide Anodized Alum plate on top of a 3/4" plywood base and an 3/4'" top surface plywood extension to make a useable table top which would then be covered in carbon fiber weave and resin to make a smooth working surface. Then I could get by with one QC Ultramount bolted into threaded holes i would drill and tap in the Alum plate.

Would look fantastic with the carbon fiber resin top.

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Nope. Too much work and I dont't have the time for the above idea.
I bit the bullet and ordered and received an Ultra Quick change mount with plates for LNL AP, LNL SS Classic and RCBS Rock Chucker plus a double dock.

Here the LNL AP and RCBS RC/Piggyback on the double dock I just finished installing.
Need to drill extra holes on the mount legs to fit the width of my pedestal board.

The metal is THICK!. Makes the Dillon mounts look like tin can sheet metal.
The three 1/4-20 SHCS holding the dock to the wood slats screw into theses black anodized 3" diameter round studs






 
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Definitely looking better.
Instead of drilling extra holes on the mount legs, I decide to to use 3/8" x 1.5" aluminum bars as intermediate plates between the Mount on the wooden top. This way I can mount the press more centrally located near the center of the pedestal.



 
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I set 4 furniture nuts into the top of my reloading table. 3/4" birch plywood plates with 4 matching holes get mounted on the bases of each of my presses.

4 thumb screws hold the press I'm using in place.

When I'm not reloading, the table is available for other projects.

Simple and cheap. Just like me.
 
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