ohaus beam scale

[kokomokid]

Are any of the heavy built Ohaus triple beam scales sensitive enough for powder measuring? Dont mind converting grams to grains.

[Nobade]

I have one of their Harvard trip balance scales, and it can barely resolve .1 gram. Not good enough for reloading. Never tried one of the other triple beam ones for that, have to let someone else comment on those.

[beemer]

I have the Ohaus triple beam gram scale, a Dial-O-Grain and a Ohaus made RCBS 502.

The triple beam is a not sensitive enough and the adjustments are not fine enough. A gram is 15.432 grains so a tenth of a gram is 1.54 grains, can't break it down any closer than that.

In comparing all these the 502 or similar beam scale is much handier and better suited for reloading.

Dave

[bangerjim]

You need to get into a lab-grade pharmaceutical scale to cross-over into the accuracy you may want loading. The 2 lab grade units I have are accurate down to the weight of a #2 pencil line on a piece of paper! But I use a small pocket digital scale for my reloading needs.........fast, accurate, & repeatable. The lab scales take too much fiddling with and are way too slow. They are GREAT for checking the accuracy of other scales.

Leave the lab scales for the high school chem classes. Get a powder scale.

[salpal48]

I depends how involved you want to go with Grams. depending the scale you can go 1/10, 1/100.1/1000.1/10000 Gn
Enclosed my Christian Becker 1/10000217542

[renegade99]

They made a "grain" version called the Dial-O-Grain that was a very good scale.

[1066]

Ohaus made several variations of the large tall scales especially for reloading, although not for the last 25 years or so. These were all good quality "Dial-o-grain" dual beam type scales. The RCBS 304, 1110, 3100 etc.

Although they are good reliable scales I find they are not quite so sensitive as a good 502.

[Nobade]

Ohaus made several variations of the large tall scales especially for reloading, although not for the last 25 years or so. These were all good quality "Dial-o-grain" dual beam type scales. The RCBS 304, 1110, 3100 etc.

Although they are good reliable scales I find they are not quite so sensitive as a good 502.Agreed, I had a 304 and it had way too much damping. I'd get a different reading each time depending on which way I let it approach zero. Sold it for a good profit and kept my 10-10. Much better for reloading.

[kokomokid]

Thanks for the feedback. Going to replace a Pact electric that needs re zero ever ten minutes.
Maybe a 10-10 with electric trickle or something along those lines.

[abunaitoo]

I have both of the Ohaus and RCBS 10-10 scales.
Don't know if they are of the same year.
They are almost the same.
Ohaus looks to be better made.