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I am in the market for a didgal/electronic scale I hear people having lots of trouble with Lyman scales and most seem happy with the RCBS, I see a Hornady scale on sale at one of the sponsers and wondered what the failure/trouble rate is on the item.Hornady Lock-N-Load® Auto Charge.
Any one have one or used one for any length of time, what do you think of them?
 
wce323078 said:
I am in the market for a didgal/electronic scale I hear people having lots of trouble with Lyman scales and most seem happy with the RCBS, I see a Hornady scale on sale at one of the sponsers and wondered what the failure/trouble rate is on the item.Hornady Lock-N-Load® Auto Charge.
Any one have one or used one for any length of time, what do you think of them?
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Do you have a reason for going electronic? Many will argue that a quality balance beam like a Redding Model 2, or RCBS (Ohaus) 505 are more accurate and reliable in the long run. No recalibration, no batteries, no failures. My Redding Model 1 is 45 years old, and has remained accurate to less than 0.05 grains.
 
I bought an expensive RCBS Range Master digital scale. It's accurate. Here is how I know:

When I first tried the LEE Pro Auto-Disk Powder measure, I set it up to throw 4.9 grains of Unique powder using hole size .53 as per the directions. But according to my LEE Safety Powder Scale, it was way under 4.0 grains. So I tried the next higher up (.57) and still way under, then tried the next (.61) and STILL too low! Using the 3 holes away (6.6) gave me about 5.1 grains.

Obviously there was something wrong with the cheap little LEE balance scale. No way would LEE offer directions for their powder measure that are so ridiculously low, they could result in a squib and be dangerous. Right?

So I went out and bought an expensive RCBS. It measured EXACTLY the same as the LEE Safety Scale. So that's how I know the RCBS is accurate. What a friggin waste of money.:bangHead:

Oh well, I guess I have a backup in case the RCBS breaks.
 
Ron AKA said:
Do you have a reason for going electronic? Many will argue that a quality balance beam like a Redding Model 2, or RCBS (Ohaus) 505 are more accurate and reliable in the long run. No recalibration, no batteries, no failures. My Redding Model 1 is 45 years old, and has remained accurate to less than 0.05 grains.
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just lazy.and the need to always change glasses to read the balance beam scale
 
I bought a RCBS Rangemater 750 from Natchez Shooting Supply a couple of years ago. Great scale.

It was on sale then and I see it's on sale now for $99.95($118.00 to my door). Wholesale is $157.

They had no proplem shipping to Canada.
 
Have been using an older RCBS digital scale purchased a decade ago. Still works well and have no issues with it. Also still have the RCBS magnetic scale which is 2 decades in use. Between the two, the digital scale gives consistent readings at a much faster pace. Pay the extra bucks and stick with RCBS. They stand behind their quality products.
 
I've used an older RCBS digital scale for many years now and just loved it. I recently switched to a new RCBS digital scale so I could get the new powder dispenser.

I have not used anything but RCBS to compare, but I find they work very very well. I also find digital to be worlds more convenient then a balance beam.
 
Buy a couple different cheap models from flea bay, or deal extreme, use the most accurate for loading and the others for whatever you want. You can get 600 gram scales for around $12.00. They read in grams, grains, ozs, carats. Buy a variety and your still way cheaper than a "reloading" scale.
 
Skyhawk said:
I bought an expensive RCBS Range Master digital scale. It's accurate. Here is how I know:

When I first tried the LEE Pro Auto-Disk Powder measure, I set it up to throw 4.9 grains of Unique powder using hole size .53 as per the directions. But according to my LEE Safety Powder Scale, it was way under 4.0 grains. So I tried the next higher up (.57) and still way under, then tried the next (.61) and STILL too low! Using the 3 holes away (6.6) gave me about 5.1 grains.

Obviously there was something wrong with the cheap little LEE balance scale. No way would LEE offer directions for their powder measure that are so ridiculously low, they could result in a squib and be dangerous. Right?

So I went out and bought an expensive RCBS. It measured EXACTLY the same as the LEE Safety Scale. So that's how I know the RCBS is accurate. What a friggin waste of money.:bangHead:

Oh well, I guess I have a backup in case the RCBS breaks.
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perhaps the autodisk is off and not the scales?
 
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