Happy though I am with my beam scales for checking volumetriclly thrown powder charges, I need a bigger weight capacity in order to start sorting brass cases by weight and so am thinking about investing in something digital.

What do you guys recommend - and more importantly NOT recommend?

Pete,

I have a PACT BBK scale that I use for sorting brass. It is fine for this purpose, as long as you don't use a cordless phone next to it. I wouldn't use it for powder measuring, especially if you trickle up to a desired charge weight.

They are at the lower end of the price spectrum at approx. $100.

I've collected quite a few scales over the years. Still have about 7 or 8. I'm doing all my reloading now on a Pact scale with a trickler system. Also have a scientific that weighs to the 100's. The Pact more often than not, is dead on with the scientific down to the 100's. Because so many have doubts of the digitals I double checked each charge for months with those two scales. I never found any variance. Pact and RCBS are the same. If I had to buy, or replace, today, it would be the Pact with the infra red port.

Just a guess on my part...but I bet if you took the covers off of all of them, the electronics would all be the same.

My instinct is to agree with ricciardelli here that under the lid, everything's equal - near as makes no difference.

I'd started by looking at the "My weigh" scales which are often advertised at EBay but as I can't get any of those grand seller fellers to ship to me in England I'll just have to go with a mainstream supplier like Sinclair.

I just got the RCBS model and so far I really like it.

I don't think the Pact is too good for weighing charges. I don't find it consistent enough. But don't think that mechanical scales are so great either. I used to think that the scale the beam is aimed at was in 1/10gr increments so you could read it directly to 1/10gr. One thing the Pact did teach me was that the little scale on those means a lot more than 1/10gr. I did learn that my Pact was more repeatable than the mechanical scales - and I did try several.

Yep, been using a Pact made RCBS since 1996 with no problems at all, AND being RCBS if there was a problem I have no doubt that they would do there best to fix it for me.
Wes

I will second the vote for the PACT scale. Prior to buying mine I called PACT and inquired as to their warrinty. I was told it came with a LIFRTIME warrinty, and that the only part on it that can break is rather cheap to fix. BTW, my PACT has proven to be consistantly accurate to with in + or - .2 tenths of a grain. As checked with both a set of Lyman weights for cheking scale accuricy, and my RCBS 505 ballance beam scale. I own both the scale and the powder dispencer, and cant be more pleased.

Hi Pete,
We use a company called cole-palmer that specialize in lab equipment. I noticed that they do some very accurate scales at reasonable prices. worth a look! they don't have a web site.
so here's the address:

cole-palmer
unit 3
river brent business park
trumpers way
hanwell
london
tel 0208 8574 7556

good luck

griff

You might try looking up universities on the web then doing a university site search using "surplus equipment" as keywords. This way you can get lab grade scales for dirt cheap.

I bought the Pact 1500 grain scale direct from Pact. Found it was quite abit cheaper than buying elsewhere. $129 delivered. This might of been a special last christmas. Works great for weighing out larger shot charges for my 10 gauge. Otherwise I was weighing 1/2 on my 505 scale and adding them together to set the adj. charge bar on the MEC press. Alot of messing around.

Pete I have beed using a Denver Instrument Accurate Load IV for several years. It is the best piece of loading equipment you will ever buy. No problems, accurate and fast. I leave it plugged in all the time. More expensive than some others but worth every penny.