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Lee and RCBS powder scale inaccuracy...
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<blockquote data-quote="Topgun 30-06" data-source="post: 476737" data-attributes="member: 28854"><p>boomtube---I couldn't have said it any better than you did in your post. For the money spent on a good beam scale, there is no way you could buy a good digital scale even the way prices have come down on things! Touching on accuracy of the two, I would bet if I could go back through my state records that the failure rate of digitals on my inspections exceeded those of mechanical scales! Anything with circuitry and using electricity is going to have problems more than a well maintained mechanical device IMHO. Also, I definitely agree with your analogy of trickling powder using the two because the beam is continually moving until you arrive at zero and stop the powder flow. With a digital scale, unless you have an expensive one that will accurately display those very minute changes, rather than internally until it reaches the break-point and displays the next readable figure, you could have problems stopping the flow where you want. Buy a good beam scale and it will last a lifetime if cared for and you can't say that about any digital scale that is comparably priced!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topgun 30-06, post: 476737, member: 28854"] boomtube---I couldn't have said it any better than you did in your post. For the money spent on a good beam scale, there is no way you could buy a good digital scale even the way prices have come down on things! Touching on accuracy of the two, I would bet if I could go back through my state records that the failure rate of digitals on my inspections exceeded those of mechanical scales! Anything with circuitry and using electricity is going to have problems more than a well maintained mechanical device IMHO. Also, I definitely agree with your analogy of trickling powder using the two because the beam is continually moving until you arrive at zero and stop the powder flow. With a digital scale, unless you have an expensive one that will accurately display those very minute changes, rather than internally until it reaches the break-point and displays the next readable figure, you could have problems stopping the flow where you want. Buy a good beam scale and it will last a lifetime if cared for and you can't say that about any digital scale that is comparably priced! [/QUOTE]
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