Saw a good deal on a Dillon Eliminator beam scale -- https://www.dillonprecision.com/dillon-s-eliminator-scale_8_7_25215.html -- yesterday and picked it up. I've been playing with it and my RCBS M500 and Lee scales just to see how they all compare to one another. Has been fun in an OCD sort of way.
On the RCBS M500, the adjustment foot turns smoothly but with some steady and moderately firm resistance. It feels like the foot has some inertia to it.
On the Dillon, the adjustment foot turns freely without any resistance at all. It feels just like a screw turning in a threaded hole.
I prefer the feel of the RCBS foot and was curious to see how they get it to feel that way. I found that the RCBS foot screw and hole have some sort of thick and sticky grease applied to and in them. The Dillon foot screw just threads into a threaded hole without any sort of grease.
The RCBS grease is amber-coloured and very sticky. It forms strings when you put it between your fingers and pull it apart. The strings will bridge about a 1/4" gap before separating. After wiping it off my fingers I needed to use solvent to completely get rid of the residue. It smells vaguely sweet.
Any idea what this grease might be? I'd like to get something similar and use it in the Dillon base to add that same sort of inertia effect to the adjustment foot.
I looked at two types of anti-seize compound today at Princess Auto -- the copper and the silver stuff -- and this grease does not seem to be like the anti-seize stuff. It's much thicker and stickier.
On the RCBS M500, the adjustment foot turns smoothly but with some steady and moderately firm resistance. It feels like the foot has some inertia to it.
On the Dillon, the adjustment foot turns freely without any resistance at all. It feels just like a screw turning in a threaded hole.
I prefer the feel of the RCBS foot and was curious to see how they get it to feel that way. I found that the RCBS foot screw and hole have some sort of thick and sticky grease applied to and in them. The Dillon foot screw just threads into a threaded hole without any sort of grease.
The RCBS grease is amber-coloured and very sticky. It forms strings when you put it between your fingers and pull it apart. The strings will bridge about a 1/4" gap before separating. After wiping it off my fingers I needed to use solvent to completely get rid of the residue. It smells vaguely sweet.
Any idea what this grease might be? I'd like to get something similar and use it in the Dillon base to add that same sort of inertia effect to the adjustment foot.
I looked at two types of anti-seize compound today at Princess Auto -- the copper and the silver stuff -- and this grease does not seem to be like the anti-seize stuff. It's much thicker and stickier.
