Mobile reloading kit - What do people use for a scale?
***I apologize in advance. I'm able to see the units when looking at the pics on my phone. They're hard to see on a computer w/out really zooming in***
The scale arrived today. I'd start another thread but the discussion about it was here. And there is no need for a separate thread because it's that bad of a scale. A $9 scale on Amazon was specifically mentioned which is what I bought. This one was the first one at that price to come up so I bought it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I didn't read the description completely and even if I did it never mentions the resolution. A quick glance at the cheap scales shows their resolution is .01 gram. That's .15 grain resolution. Not quite enough. I have no clue about the resolution of this scale because the short test session showed it wasn't consistent.
Started w/ a check weight on both a RCBS Chargemaster and the cheap scale
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4445/...876f8a42_b.jpg
Apparently I forgot to take a pic of the check weight on the cheap scale. I let it warm up and automatically shut off, then turned it back on. It read 50 grams like it should. And it read the correct weight no matter where I placed it on the pan. Passed the first test.
Next up was the pan from the Chargemaster for trickling powder into.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4487/...bcdbcf48_b.jpg
And the testing stops because it's resolution isn't high enough. It only read in whole grains.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4488/...42f417d9_b.jpg
The scale cannot be used to reloading purposes. But I'm not one to stop there. I wanted to see how it would do w/ trickling powder.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4444/...e975f514_b.jpg
It read zero and then all of a sudden it hit four grains. I was trickling at the pace you would be when trying to weigh a charge.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4503/...ac88ab34_b.jpg
That certainly doesn't look like four grains so I weighed it on the Chargemaster.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4455/...ffa4932b_b.jpg
And the answer is that it's not even close to weighing four grains. Not one to stop I decided to trickle on ounces since it has the highest resolution, at least display wise.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4481/...61bf8d2b_b.jpg
Trickled like you normally would. Stopped when it changed for the first time.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4509/...daf6d833_b.jpg
And checked w/ the Chargemaster.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4483/...25f520c8_b.jpg
This was at least close. .005 ounces is equal to 2.1875 grains. Round it up and you have 2.2 grains. But the scale isn't repeatable. The first time it read 4 grains when it was 1.2. Second time around it read correctly. It needs to read correctly every single time. This scale isn't marketed towards reloaders. Those scales have a resolution of .1 grains. This one obviously won't work for reloading purposes. But for $9 I certainly didn't expect it to. It already resides in a trash can.