Nice compact setup! How do you like that Hornady scale? I bought one last week and found it to vary by half a grain when weighing the same charge repeatedly. I was hoping for something accurate to within .2 grains to quickly weigh thrown charges, but half a grain seemed like a bit much so I exchanged it for a lyman beam scale that I was hoping would balance faster than my lee, but it sticks at all points in the beam travel. Going to return that. It was an impulse purchase at a tax in sale, but after some research I don't think cheap, accurate, quick and small can go together in a scale. Maybe I got a bad one?
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Nice compact setup! How do you like that Hornady scale? I bought one last week and found it to vary by half a grain when weighing the same charge repeatedly. I was hoping for something accurate to within .2 grains to quickly weigh thrown charges, but half a grain seemed like a bit much so I exchanged it for a lyman beam scale that I was hoping would balance faster than my lee, but it sticks at all points in the beam travel. Going to return that. It was an impulse purchase at a tax in sale, but after some research I don't think cheap, accurate, quick and small can go together in a scale. Maybe I got a bad one?
It actually appears that some need to loosen their sphincter muscle a little.
Here's my new setup. Moved from the Garage to one of the spare rooms. (already posted in another thread but will put it here for posterity)
Did you calibrate the scale before using it? The calibration weight is provided and instructions are written on the inside cover of the scale... I read to tenths of a grain and a single grain of W760 (fine) will tip it up or down, so I would say that it is pretty accurate... I tend to go slow and single pull... more concerned with accuracy than speed and I like this scale... but there are better more expensive ones out there.
A small apartment in that slice of socialist paradise that is Rob Ford's Toronto...
The key is that everything here has to be able to be boxed up and packed away in another room when guests stay over (there's a futon underneath of all of that, and we always maintain a spot for friends or guests 'just in case'). I really thought it would be some horrible compromise, but I can't believe how well it has worked out. p.s. black pipe, flanges and cheap shelves are awesome! When I find out the sister-in-law is crashing over, I can have a room ready in around 10 minutes. Bonus, when summer hits I can move everything up to the cottage in the back of the truck lickety-split. Sturdy but commitment free, and also doubles as a general purpose work bench when needed (but not for cutting lumber!)
The key is that everything here has to be able to be boxed up and packed away in another room when guests stay over (there's a futon underneath of all of that, and we always maintain a spot for friends or guests 'just in case'). I really thought it would be some horrible compromise, but I can't believe how well it has worked out. p.s. black pipe, flanges and cheap shelves are awesome!
When I find out the sister-in-law is crashing over, I can have a room ready in around 10 minutes. Bonus, when summer hits I can move everything up to the cottage in the back of the truck lickety-split. Sturdy but commitment free, and also doubles as a general purpose work bench when needed (but not for cutting lumber!)
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I just rent the house.. so Im making due with what I got... Not the greatest set yup but it works for me!
here is my modest set up, frankly you guys make me green with envy, i have a lot of hobbies so reloading has to compete for space with some of the other stuff i do ei; woodworking, custom guitar amps, and general tinkering and so forth. i try to contain it all to one room.and make as many things as possible serve multiple purposes... hence loading press detaches from bench. anyways here is a panorama of "the shop" you can see it under the pile of stuff but in the centre of the room there is a cast iron boyce crane table saw and a 6"delta jointer tucked to its side. lather is still in the shed until i finish some house renos. its a bad photo.. sorry. if you click it it might enlarge. i dunno.
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when i saw someone else online make one i decided that regardless of how clean it gets my brass i just had to make one. they work like a hot damn too!
They are the cat's A$$. I built my own as well and will never go back to a vibratory. On rare occasion, I have wished i had not sold mine(vibratory) so i could polish that old round i came across, but for reloading you can't beat it.
Rock on!!!
It's not about the size....it's how you use it. LOL
That's brilliant, going to steal your idea for my room.
