Being a bit too cold to go outside and play here in Virginia I finally turned my attention to my RCBS scale project on the reloading bench. I have a post down in the WTB section detailing the broken rear pivot feet, so I won’t re-hash it all here, but decided to go for a more permanent solution should a replacement base not be found to put it back in service.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...-stripped-base
I took stock of my current capabilities and tooling and gave up on all the grandiose plans of machined blocks, precision adjustable feet and all other sorts of complicated detailed repairs and went a more realistic simple route. A short search of the wood scrap pile yielded a nice straight grain piece of oak which was cut to length then flanged on a radial arm saw to make a step to fit inside the base and fine-tuned to be level across the scale base. A little JB weld and a day later, (side note—is it ever possible to use this stuff and not find a dab of it stuck to the back of your hand or arm later on in the day?) I now had a place to add some semi-hard plastic stick on rounded feet from the hardware isle at Wally World. I figure if these hold up on the glass cutting board in the kitchen they should be fine for this. I leveled out the base with the zero screw and did the usual shuffle with the shot in the pan balancing act for this type scale and now everything is dead on repeatedly accurate across the board with the test weights (no surprise).
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