Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
Articles
Latest reviews
Author list
Classifieds
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
Powder scale
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Bigeclipse" data-source="post: 1037712" data-attributes="member: 52437"><p>agree, however...I do not notice drift as long as I turn mine on for a few hours before I use it and recalibrate every time. I have only had it since Christmas BUT the most I have seen it drift was .04 grains and that was when I only had the scale on for 30 minutes prior to use and I noticed it immediately. I weighed a charge 40.0 grains, when I put the pan back on with out the charge it read +.04grains. I then poured the charge back in and now it still said 40.0 grains which I knew was really 39.96 grains. I left the scale on another hour and recalibrated and all was well. hasn't happened since as long as I leave the scale on for over an hour. during my loading session I will watch the pan and make sure it always returns to zero, which it has so far. I will also put the 20gram calibration weight on from time to time and it always gives me the correct reading.</p><p> </p><p>I will say this... my RCBS mechanical scale is a 5-10 and although has served me well, it has proved to only be accurate to .1grains which is great but not perfect for what I wanted. I would weigh out a charge on the 5-10 and then check with my GEM pro 250 and my buddies RCBS digital and both would show the same (within .02grains of each other) BUT if we tried to weigh another charge with the RCBS 5-10 we would get a different result...for example we weighed 3 charges with the 5-10 which all showed to be level at 50 grains. When weighed on our digitals they actually were 50.04, 49.96, and 50.02....which as I said are pretty close together but if you take the low and the high of those three you get .08grain difference which some may think is fine but I don't. </p><p> </p><p>The GEMpro 250 gets my vote and have a lifetime warranty (actually 25 years is what mine says) and I have heard if you have any issue they will fix or replace rather quick. Just my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigeclipse, post: 1037712, member: 52437"] agree, however...I do not notice drift as long as I turn mine on for a few hours before I use it and recalibrate every time. I have only had it since Christmas BUT the most I have seen it drift was .04 grains and that was when I only had the scale on for 30 minutes prior to use and I noticed it immediately. I weighed a charge 40.0 grains, when I put the pan back on with out the charge it read +.04grains. I then poured the charge back in and now it still said 40.0 grains which I knew was really 39.96 grains. I left the scale on another hour and recalibrated and all was well. hasn't happened since as long as I leave the scale on for over an hour. during my loading session I will watch the pan and make sure it always returns to zero, which it has so far. I will also put the 20gram calibration weight on from time to time and it always gives me the correct reading. I will say this... my RCBS mechanical scale is a 5-10 and although has served me well, it has proved to only be accurate to .1grains which is great but not perfect for what I wanted. I would weigh out a charge on the 5-10 and then check with my GEM pro 250 and my buddies RCBS digital and both would show the same (within .02grains of each other) BUT if we tried to weigh another charge with the RCBS 5-10 we would get a different result...for example we weighed 3 charges with the 5-10 which all showed to be level at 50 grains. When weighed on our digitals they actually were 50.04, 49.96, and 50.02....which as I said are pretty close together but if you take the low and the high of those three you get .08grain difference which some may think is fine but I don't. The GEMpro 250 gets my vote and have a lifetime warranty (actually 25 years is what mine says) and I have heard if you have any issue they will fix or replace rather quick. Just my two cents. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
Powder scale
Top