Frankford Arsenal scale?

[crabo]

Anyone tried Midways Frankford Arsenal scale at $30? Is there a good reason to spend an extra hundred to get Dillions electroic scale?

I want to weigh my boolits quickly and also as a back up to my beam scale.

Thanks,

Crabo

[opentop]

I was wondering the same thing. Inquiring minds want to know!

[LET-CA]

I use one, but don't use it for measuring powder. It doesn't track real well as you trickle powder onto the scale.

I use mine to check the weight of my cast bullets. The only caviat I offer is that you should toss the battery that comes with it and put a new one right away. Several people have had problems that were all traceable to a weak battery. Other than that, it's a wonderful little scale, weighing in half a dozen formats (ounces, grams, dwt, grains, etc.)

[Steelshooter]

Mine goes crazy every once in awhile, I let it shut off by itself, then turn it back on and its works fine. Can't beat it for the money and the time it saves weighting bullets.
Chuck

[94Doug]

My question about it was; is it the same one you can pick up for less on ebay, they look the same from what I can tell. Anyone have any experience?

Doug

[TAWILDCATT]

I got mine from midsouth for $24.99 called "smart reloader".seems to be ok.
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[lv2tinker]

I bought one last year from Midway and returned it a week later. It was the most annoying scale I have EVER used. Never gave the same weight twice in a row, battries only lasted a few hours at most etc. etc.
Not worth what you pay for it, and it is "cheap".

Cheers

[LET-CA]

I bought one last year from Midway and returned it a week later. It was the most annoying scale I have EVER used. Never gave the same weight twice in a row, battries only lasted a few hours at most etc. etc.
Not worth what you pay for it, and it is "cheap".

Cheers

Sounds like you got a lemon. I've not had any trouble with mine in over a year.

[crabo]

I ordered this one last night. I'll give a report. They claim it is good enough for trickling powder. We'll see.

http://www.eabco.com/electronicpowderscale.htm

Crabo

[mbk]

I have one of the cheap scales from Midway. I do not have a lot of faith in it and only use it to weigh bullets and brass. It works fairly well if you weigh items relatively rapidly in sucession. If you wait 15-20 seconds between items, its little mind seems to wander and the zero follows. I have rewieghed the same pan of powder and had as much a 6 tenths of a grain varience over 5 repeated weighings. For me that is not close enough for weighing powder especially on very small cases. I have a couple small calibers that 2-3 tenths can make the alligators come out and bite you. This is the second scale, the first one I had was even worse and Midway replaced it. I have not read the reviews for a long time but when I got mine, it looked like the first of these scales Midway sold were good and they got progessively worse later on.

Mike

[compass will]

I have one from Midway. When doing rifle loading, I set tare on the primed empty case (tare on each case as there is differences from case to case), I charge the case then weigh it again. This is just a safety thing I have gotten into, looking for low or double charges.
but I also keep checking every 5th or 10th load on my beam scale.

[chuebner]

I ordered this one last night. I'll give a report. They claim it is good enough for trickling powder. We'll see.

http://www.eabco.com/electronicpowderscale.htm

Crabo

I hope you have better luck with the one you get. Mine went belly up after 2 mo., the replacement lasted 4 mo. I now have the one from Midway and it works like a champ. Matches two beam scales to within .1gr. I also calibrate it each loading session since it only takes a few seconds.

Charlie

[blysmelter]

What about this one from midsouth?
http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item.asp?sku=00047SR750

[timkelley]

Crabo, I have one of those scales. I've had it six months or longer and it works fine. I do what you say you want to do.

[compass will]

Most of the complaints I read on Midway related to the batteries they come with being junk. Mine needed batteries after about 4 hours of use. New batteries work great. Also don't touch the batteries, keep the contact surfaces clean.