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I'm getting lazy.

I like the idea of punching the desired weight into a box and getting the correct amount of powder automatically dumped into the pan. I see a few machines in the market.

Any recommendations?
 
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I have a lyman autoscale. It uses a balance for weight measurement. it has a coarse and fine feeder tubes and is very accurate. It has to be level and no wind.
It has an ajustment for slow to fast to correct over shoot.
i have used it to load stick,balltype and flake powders.
It is a little tochy on flake at 3.5 grains.
I have a couple digital scales and they DONOT hold thier -0-
 
Posts: 2134 | Location: Ohio | Registered: 26 June 2000Reply With Quote
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I like the RCBS one, apparently faster than the Lyman, but saying that I still use a powder measure and just trickle in the last grain or so.
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Posts: 93 | Location: Hants. UK | Registered: 05 January 2004Reply With Quote
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I have the NEW upgraded PACT version with the scale and dispensor. It is fast enough to complete a charge while I am seating and checking runout on the round prior. Great investment for my loading bench.
 
Posts: 1496 | Location: behind the crosshairs | Registered: 01 August 2002Reply With Quote
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I have the Pact scale and dispenser, the new one, and I like it a lot. Much faster than the older one. Will dump a 75 gr. charge in about 18 - 20 secs.

A couple of things

The scale is quite sensitive to drafts. Mine sits in a little cut down cardboard box. It also needs some time to
"warm up", don't know how long as I leave mine on all the time.

You have to "throw" 4 charges (or so) for the scale to settle down to a new load but after that it's almost always right on and occasionly plus or minus .1 gr.

Roi
 
Posts: 626 | Location: The soggy side of Washington State | Registered: 13 July 2003Reply With Quote
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The PACT and RCBS digital scales require about 20 minutes to warm up so they don't drift. All strain guage scales are very sensitive to drafts, so any thing that stops even a tiny draft makes a big improvement. You must also calibrate them every time you turn them on.

RobertD
 
Posts: 269 | Location: East Bay, CA | Registered: 11 October 2003Reply With Quote
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