Two holes............

[kamlooky]

Finally found El Rockchukar after the move.
And ended up with a decent metal bench.
Need to drill a kupple'oles for the RCBS press.
I'm right handed and last go around I had the press bolted
to the far right of the last bench.
Not sure of decisions anymore.
This bench is long and fits in a double closet sort of space in a big
corner room downstairs.
Soooooooo, keep the press far off to one side, six inches back from the corner.
A foot or so?

Fruck, decisions decisions deezizzshuns...........................

 

[Innercity]

Well if you put it in the wrong hole someone will let you know.

 

[curseyou]

All hole jokes aside, mount the press onto a piece of wood, then c-clamp the wood to your bench. Super sturdy and forever adjustable and no holes in your bench. Google it.

 

[Dogleg]

Drill two holes? Arent you supposed to shoot a couple holes? Its way faster.

 

[Innercity]

All hole jokes aside, mount the press onto a piece of wood, then c-clamp the wood to your bench. Super sturdy and forever adjustable and no holes in your bench. Google it.

This is what I do as well, except I mounted my press to a piece of 1/2" plate.

And she has 3 holes too

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

Clamp it, use it, clamp it use it, try here, try there.

When you find where it fits you bolt it down.

One thing I can't stand is half-assed fastening or installation of an Item that needs to be solid , not to mention the clamps sitting there in the way or to hook crap on and you gotta clean around them too.Just my opinion of course.

 

[Superbrad]

If mounting it and right handed, always mount far right...... you are going to want to have a comfy seating position and will want to use that bench for other things, like minor gunsmithing etc......

Having a similar debate myself, but it's around where I want to mount my case trimmer and vice....

 

[freezer filler]

This is what I do as well, except I mounted my press to a piece of 1/2" plate.

And she has 3 holes too

Yep, don't neglect the third hole.

 

[skhunter]

I mounted mine to the wall above my bench.

 

[BigUglyMan]

All hole jokes aside, mount the press onto a piece of wood, then c-clamp the wood to your bench. Super sturdy and forever adjustable and no holes in your bench. Google it.

This. Saves a lot of screwing around because no matter where you permanently bolt something it will eventually be in the wrong place.

 

[Grey_Wolf]

All hole jokes aside, mount the press onto a piece of wood, then c-clamp the wood to your bench. Super sturdy and forever adjustable and no holes in your bench. Google it.

This is the way to go.

 

[Robert Nicholson]

I put my press on the left side of my bench so that I could use my right hand for all the careful work and my left hand for the dumb work of the lever.

Maybe that is why I still get the occasional squashed crimps.

 

[fingers284]

You want to leave enough space on the right side of your machine so that when you get a "real" press there is room for it and the accompanying tub that the "real press" will fill very quickly with every "one pull-one round capability

 

[kawicrash]

All hole jokes aside, mount the press onto a piece of wood, then c-clamp the wood to your bench. Super sturdy and forever adjustable and no holes in your bench. Google it.

This is what I do as well, however I found it helpful to put a support under the front edge of the bench to the floor because my bench is supported on brackets from the wall, and I use Lee collet dies, where you have to give it a good push on the handle. This keeps it nice and solid with no movement.

 

[Mystic Precision]

Feng Shui....

Happy press makes happy ammo....

Jerry

 

[landphil]

Since my bench is a countertop on cabinets with drawers in the top, I built a heavy duty steel bracket and mounted it to the right hand end of the cabinet, level with the countertop. Works great, and is very solid since I used some scrap 3/8" plate I had kicking around. I find it works well having the press on the far right sine I'm also right handed.

 

[curseyou]

Feng Shui....

Happy press makes happy ammo....

Jerry

So the press must be located where two water sources meet for prosperity. Then ensure the bench is astrnomically aligned with the summer solstice for health.

 

[kamlooky]

Bladder awn one side, sink awn nudder make furr gooder schway

 

[silverfoxdj]

All hole jokes aside, mount the press onto a piece of wood, then c-clamp the wood to your bench. Super sturdy and forever adjustable and no holes in your bench. Google it.

I have two presses and bolted the smaller one like this and infinitely adjustable but bolt mounted my 650 to the far right side.

 

[Lonesome Donkey]

All hole jokes aside, mount the press onto a piece of wood, then c-clamp the wood to your bench. Super sturdy and forever adjustable and no holes in your bench. Google it.

This works well.
Use two pieces of 3/4" plywood screwed and glued together as a base, and bolt up using washers through countersunk holes on the bottom. (Forstner bit)
Also works for smaller vises up to 4" or so, powder measures, or anything else that you may need to securely mount.
A well-designed base and a couple of 6" C clamps really spreads out the area resisting the torque that you may be applying.