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Post by 2 Dogs on Apr 5, 2016 21:30:41 GMT -5
Tell me about the scale you feel most benefits the way you load.
I use a Dillon balance beam as well as a PACT electronic scale. Of late, I have been some disappointed in the PACT. To me the balance beam while a constant for accuracy is very slow to use. Perhaps the PACT is just getting tired....
My buddy Glenn is getting one of the newest out there, I forget the name, and it is a bit pricey. Not Prometheus pricy, but still. My buddy Jeff feels like his RCBS scale is all he needs. Jeff feels like the money spent on the high end scale is better spent on powder.
What do you think?
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cmh
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Post by cmh on Apr 5, 2016 21:38:10 GMT -5
Lyman 2000 electronic scale and a older lyman beam scale I double check loads ocassionally...
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Post by klnc on Apr 5, 2016 21:45:52 GMT -5
I have a fairly expensive PACT and a cheapo Frankfort Arsenal battery powered. Both read identically and have been very reliable. I don't think I could go back to a balance beam.
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Post by paul105 on Apr 5, 2016 21:49:45 GMT -5
Ohaus 10/10 that I've had for 40+ years. Been tempted to buy one of the current electronic scales but everything I've read indicates they are bit more tempermental than I'm willing to deal with.
Paul
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Post by Encore64 on Apr 5, 2016 21:52:56 GMT -5
RCBS balance beam 505. Have thrown in the towel on electronic scales.
The balance beam has been accurate and reliable for 25 years. It's looks and works as it does the day I bought it.
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Post by kings6 on Apr 5, 2016 21:59:39 GMT -5
RCBS electronic chargemaster scale and dispenser but RCBS beam scale and a Lyman still live here as well
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Post by contender on Apr 5, 2016 22:37:24 GMT -5
Well, I own a Dillon electronic one I've had for several years,, w/o any problems. I also have a Lyman powder dispensing scale up that I enjoy when loading rifle ammo. And,, I also own a RCBS 10-10 balance beam one. ALL of them have their good points. But Dillon seems to get the most use around here.
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Post by sheriff on Apr 6, 2016 9:33:37 GMT -5
RCBS electronic....
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Post by James on Apr 6, 2016 12:06:04 GMT -5
RCBS electronic chargemaster scale and dispenser but RCBS beam scale and a Lyman still live here as well
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Post by eagle1899 on Apr 6, 2016 12:30:21 GMT -5
I've been using an Ohaus/RCBS beam scale for many years but I'm really leaning toward an electronic next. This one in particular- brianenos.com/store/be.scale_pd.htmlBrian Enos is one of the good guys and my go to for any Dillon Products.
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Post by mike454 on Apr 6, 2016 13:45:26 GMT -5
have a rcbs beam scale which I never use and a pact which is always within a 10th. when I check it with a set of check weights every time I use it.
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Post by bradshaw on Apr 6, 2016 14:56:35 GMT -5
Fermin.... started on, more than a half century ago, a Redding oil dampened beam scale. An RCBS 10-10 magnetic dampened has seen four decades of service. An RCBS electronic scale has been in use without a hitch fifteen years. For travel to a remote place, the beam scale wins. Speed is the great advantage of an electronic scale. Take, for instance, a glitch in loading on a progressive press, and a suspicious round drops into a pile of look-a-likes. Providing all the brass is of the same make and lot, an electronic scale makes it simple to weigh each round; thus, to isolate an over-charge or under-charge.
Comparison weighing to average or to separate components is so much faster with the electronic scale. That said, I used an RCBS 10-10 beam scale and a Redding beam scale rather continuously this past winter. David Bradshaw
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Post by tullymars on Apr 6, 2016 15:35:05 GMT -5
RCBS electronic mostly, but also use a 40 year old RCBS 5-10 balance beam to verify warmer loads and to check accuracy of the electronic. In your case, just have Glenn buy two of what he's gettin' ,and donate one to you. He can probably write it off as R&D on next years taxes.
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Post by Thunderjet on Apr 6, 2016 15:35:56 GMT -5
RCBS balance beam 505. Have thrown in the towel on electronic scales. The balance beam has been accurate and reliable for 25 years. It's looks and works as it does the day I bought it. What he said. I am on my third electronic scale and they are useful for weighing brass, bullets, etc but they suck at weighing powder as they drift or tend to go from under to over to fast to be useful.
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Post by Alaskan454 on Apr 6, 2016 15:56:56 GMT -5
I've had good luck with my Dillon electronic scale, it holds zero well and reads out very quickly. Only been using it for a few years though so I hope it continues to perform that way.
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