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<blockquote data-quote="User4302021" data-source="post: 1785378" data-attributes="member: 105322"><p>Technique is important with these scales. All the cheap load cell scales drift.</p><p></p><p>You have to spend a few hundred dollars to get into a magnetic force restoration scale to avoid most of those troubles. The A&D fx120i, and the Sartorius Entris 153 are the entry level in this type of scale.</p><p></p><p>But as I said before, your technique can help even with the cheaper scales. Often, if you lift up the pan and replace it, the true weight will show. Also, if you tare out the scale with the pan on it, you should get the same reading every time you remove the pan. By keeping an eye on this reading, and lifting and replacing the full pan to check weight, you can still make these work reasonably well.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Here is something else you may or may not want to hear...many of the vintage Ohaus made beam scales are extremely sensitive. I have an old gray Ohaus 505 (not RCBS, but Ohaus branded) that I have tested with BOTH of my laboratory analytical balances (accurate to .001 grains). That vintage 505 has an extreme spread over 30 charges of .09 grains with an SD of .03 grains.</p><p></p><p>Like this one: <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/I31-OHAUS-RELOADING-POWDER-MEASURE-SCALE-MODEL-505-WITH-BOX/254459206119?hash=item3b3ef359e7:g:mfwAAOSwqOdd~Q9j" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/I31-OHAUS-RELOADING-POWDER-MEASURE-SCALE-MODEL-505-WITH-BOX/254459206119?hash=item3b3ef359e7:g:mfwAAOSwqOdd~Q9j</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="User4302021, post: 1785378, member: 105322"] Technique is important with these scales. All the cheap load cell scales drift. You have to spend a few hundred dollars to get into a magnetic force restoration scale to avoid most of those troubles. The A&D fx120i, and the Sartorius Entris 153 are the entry level in this type of scale. But as I said before, your technique can help even with the cheaper scales. Often, if you lift up the pan and replace it, the true weight will show. Also, if you tare out the scale with the pan on it, you should get the same reading every time you remove the pan. By keeping an eye on this reading, and lifting and replacing the full pan to check weight, you can still make these work reasonably well. Edit: Here is something else you may or may not want to hear...many of the vintage Ohaus made beam scales are extremely sensitive. I have an old gray Ohaus 505 (not RCBS, but Ohaus branded) that I have tested with BOTH of my laboratory analytical balances (accurate to .001 grains). That vintage 505 has an extreme spread over 30 charges of .09 grains with an SD of .03 grains. Like this one: [URL]https://www.ebay.com/itm/I31-OHAUS-RELOADING-POWDER-MEASURE-SCALE-MODEL-505-WITH-BOX/254459206119?hash=item3b3ef359e7:g:mfwAAOSwqOdd~Q9j[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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