Re: Best Powder Scale
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Killshot44</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pmclaine</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have come to the opinion that the most accurate, more importantly consistent, scale is balance beam based. Flourescent lights, noise in an electric line, weak batteries, poor electronics have no effect on the laws of physics.</div></div>
Sorry, but this Luddite view has to end sometime, it IS 2012...
Digital scales in every lab and in thousands of other offices replaced beam scales long ago - there's no voodoo to them.
Excellent precision scales for reloading can be had for under $600. The only hard part is deciding how much scale you want.
In fact, right now it's hard to beat a little Gempro250 for dollar value. Reads to .02grain and doesn't drift. It's on the the slow side for trickling but if you don't mind the wait....
Would make a great back-up or range scale, if not a primary for someone starting out.
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I suppose you are excited about the switch to compact flourescent bulbs being shoved up the countries ass. They are the latest and greatest so to not love them would make one a Luddite? Incandescence just plain works all the time and so does a balance beam.
First scale I bought was a MyWeigh I201, German load sensor based, 30 year warranty from a respectable reloadinng house. Thing has sucked from day one. Could be dirty power, broken scale, air currents who knows but I wont spend money on a power conditioner to make my $160 scale work when a $70 Dillon beam never leaves me wondering. I'm sending the MyWeigh back to them on the warranty very soon. If it comes back as a brand new in the box exchange $110 shipped to anyone that wants it.
I wonder why Prometheus hasnt come out with a digital based system? I proudly wear my Luddite badge, drive my carburated self repairable motorcycle, rue the dawning of the spiral bulb era and leave the Chevy Volt to those unlike me.