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Lee and RCBS powder scale inaccuracy...
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<blockquote data-quote="boomtube" data-source="post: 476726" data-attributes="member: 9215"><p>"I think I'll stick to using a digital scale from now on."</p><p> </p><p>Good luck. I won't . </p><p> </p><p>As you have now defined your "certified" digital, it seems you understand the common public doesn't have access to any routine maint. service traceable to any certification agency. Mostly meaning the only relationship between your wife's scale and common ones is they all have digital readouts. </p><p> </p><p>I've been reloading a long time. I have three beam scales now and have used several others. None of them ever had an error greater than about .2 gr at any point on the beam and, for me, that's quite acceptable so long as the scale is precisely repeatable - and mine are. I suspect that is a common accuracy level. </p><p> </p><p>My 46 year old Lyman beam continues to read EXACTLY the same today as it did when I bought it, ditto my 42 year old Herter's scale, and they are NOT unique in that life expectancy. My little Lee "Safety" scale is a PITA to use but it's very sensitive and dead on. In fact, all three of my scales are much more sensitive than any reloading grade digital I've used and beams follow a powder trickler much better. I strongly doubt that any non-professionally maintained digital scale, at any price, will last half as long as my beams and they are still going strong; I really like that. </p><p> </p><p>I can't imagine a hobbist reloader working on a viberating industrial machine room floor but I suppose it's possible to eventually damage a beam's knives if he does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boomtube, post: 476726, member: 9215"] "I think I'll stick to using a digital scale from now on." Good luck. I won't . As you have now defined your "certified" digital, it seems you understand the common public doesn't have access to any routine maint. service traceable to any certification agency. Mostly meaning the only relationship between your wife's scale and common ones is they all have digital readouts. I've been reloading a long time. I have three beam scales now and have used several others. None of them ever had an error greater than about .2 gr at any point on the beam and, for me, that's quite acceptable so long as the scale is precisely repeatable - and mine are. I suspect that is a common accuracy level. My 46 year old Lyman beam continues to read EXACTLY the same today as it did when I bought it, ditto my 42 year old Herter's scale, and they are NOT unique in that life expectancy. My little Lee "Safety" scale is a PITA to use but it's very sensitive and dead on. In fact, all three of my scales are much more sensitive than any reloading grade digital I've used and beams follow a powder trickler much better. I strongly doubt that any non-professionally maintained digital scale, at any price, will last half as long as my beams and they are still going strong; I really like that. I can't imagine a hobbist reloader working on a viberating industrial machine room floor but I suppose it's possible to eventually damage a beam's knives if he does. [/QUOTE]
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