Lyman Digital Dead. pos

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AKD

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I have / had a Lyman 1000gn digital scale that has now taken a turn for the worse.

This thing has given me problems in the past and I second guess its accuracy every now n than.

anyway. So Im measuring up some loads for the range 2moro and its working well. I had to take off for a wile so i shut the scale off. I get back, turn the scale on and try to calibrate it. when i pushed the zero button in it stayed in. like does not want to come out at all even tho everything seamed fine. I turned it off.... for no real reason..... than went to turn it on but it would not come back to life. I take it off batt and plug it in2 the wall, still nothing.


After 20min here of trying I give up and believe this dam thing just suffered a massive electronic heart attack. what a pos.
I had enough of this scale. Waste of $$. not even worth it to send back to lyman, I could care less about owning a new one.

dam pos scale.
 
I had the same scale and the same problem,one day it wouldnt come back on.I solved it by purchasing a rcbs chargemaster 100 times a better scale a bit more money but at least I am not second guessing my scale. I took the lyman back it wasnt even 3 months old. they said they are having alot of problems.
 
Call Lyman. If you can't get any satisfactory assurances from them, take it to your local techno-geeky computer store. Sounds like a pad contact problem, no different than a phone or a keyboard. The nerds there should have fun fixing it....no insult intended to the nerds - I fix this kind of stuff myself, so sometimes I are one.
 
AKD said:
not to old at all. 6 months roughly. Even some times just letting it warm up I found it would freeze. ever happen to you?
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Nope. Just a variance on the readout until the damn thing has warmed up. But it sure is disconcerting seeing a .3-.4 grain variance in readouts until the damn thing's warmed up. And I'm talking room warm-up as well. I reload in my garage where the temp is usually around 12*C. So if I go into the garage with the intention to reload, I have to warm up the garage to 21*C (which usually takes around 30 minutes to stabilize) and warm up the scale (another 30 minutes).

Honestly, I shoulda just purchased a mechanical scale as I wanted to originally. No dicking around, no second-guessing.....:rolleyes:
 
Mine has locked up a few times. Removed and replaced the battery and it was fine. You sound like yours has a stuck contact or button inside.
 
Two solutions. Send it to Lyman and get them to fix it or give you a new one, if that can be done.
If you don't like it, once repaaired or replaced, flog it on the EE.

Or ....send the dead remains to me (bit of a geek, I guess), and I'll have a go at fixing it up. :D

Cheers
Trev
 
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