what powder measure doesn't leak?

[pworley1]

I have Herters, Saeco, Lyman, Pacific, CH, RCBS, and Hornady. None of them have ever leaked.

[big bore 99]

After having a couple different brands of measures that bound up or leaked, I went to the Lee dippers and haven't regretted it. I verify on a scale once in awhile to make sure and haven't found one to be bad yet.

[leadhead]

DougGuy... Where did you get the clear powder hopper for the Lee measure?
I bought 3 of the Lee adjustable charge bars years ago. Two for rifle and one
for pistol. E Arthur Brown sold them but haven't been available for years..
Wish I would have bought a dozen of them...
Denny

[texassako]

I have quite a few different measures these days and only 2 have leaked, the Lee Perfect and my Redding bank dial with fine powders. The Redding is probably from the 50+ year old rubber seal in it, and the Lee has not leaked since working it over. There is a thread somewhere around here I used for the process of working over the Lee measure. I encounter cutting grains more often than leaking.

[Kevin Rohrer]

*Hollywood
*Quick-Measure
*Belding & Mull
*Dillon

None of them leak

[texaswoodworker]

My Lee perfect powder measure does not leak.

I have one too. Mine does leak somewhat. Mostly with the finer powders like H110. Powders like Unique also leak, but not near as bad. It's still a really good measure though.

[c1skout]

One more thing, do any of the other measures mentioned have a removable powder hopper? I use that feature all the time.

[wrench man]

Never had issue with my Dillon or Redding #3?

[country gent]

Harrels have screw on bottles and sinclairs make an adapter to use most powder bottles on them

[badbob454]

lil dandy pistol powder measure dosent leak but cuts powder kernels sometimes. works great

[John Boy]

Which one will be adjustable enough to go from small cases like a 380 up to rifles in the 30-06 class, and not leak powder onto my white bench top?

Lyman #5 and B&M but then again my Lee PP Measure doesn't leak either. It is used exclusively load BPCR reloads up to 90grs of black powder - about 1500 per year
BTW, I can drop accurately 5gr of smokeless in both the Lee & Lyman

[westen]

Rcbs and Lyman here with zero leaking with #9 and #7.

[orbitalair]

Lee PPM Secret.

Get some valve lap compound (or i use turtlewax heavy scratch remover paste), disassemble the PPM.
Use the paste to 'lap' the 2 cones together. Work this a few minutes, add more paste, work a few more. You should start to see the high spots being dulled. My 2 units took only about 15 minutes each.

Reassemble, use powdered graphite to lube. Do not overtighten, you want smooth but not too tight.

Mine never leak, even on the LoadMaster autoactuation, and using AA#2

[dragonrider]

The Lee has a removable powder hopper.

[c1skout]

Lee PPM Secret.

Get some valve lap compound (or i use turtlewax heavy scratch remover paste), disassemble the PPM.
Use the paste to 'lap' the 2 cones together. Work this a few minutes, add more paste, work a few more. You should start to see the high spots being dulled. My 2 units took only about 15 minutes each.

Reassemble, use powdered graphite to lube. Do not overtighten, you want smooth but not too tight.

Mine never leak, even on the LoadMaster autoactuation, and using AA#2

I spent over an hour on my measure. First I cleaned it with rubbing alcohol to remove all the graphite and trace powder. Then I started lapping it. The first time I recleaned it to inspect I could see where I had 2 low spots in the cone of the measure body, and one large low spot in the rotor cone, directly above and in line with the volume adjuster's hole. After a couple more lap and clean cycles I've eliminated the low spots in the measure body, but the one in the rotor is just too deep, I would be out of wear material on the cones before this dip is gone. I put it back together and it's no better, but it's no worse either.

[NavyVet1959]

I have a Lee "Perfect Powder Measure" that has been sitting on my shelf in its original box for a couple of years. With my Dillon and Saeco, I never bothered to set it up. Well, after this thread, I decided to set it up on a scrap piece of 2x6 to see how it worked and whether it leaked. I was reloading some .45 SUPER +P+ loads that needed 11.0 gr of Longshot and I didn't want to have to modify the settings on my othe powder measures. I did not notice any leaking and every load that I weighed dropped at exactly 11.0 gr. it's not as well-built as the Saeco or the Dillon, but it does work and is accurate. That kind of makes up for the cheesy plastic construction, I guess.

[jrmartin1964]

I have Hollywood, RCBS, Redding, and Lyman. None of them leak.

[str8wal]

I have 5 Lyman 55's and none of them leak.

[NavyVet1959]

One more thing, do any of the other measures mentioned have a removable powder hopper? I use that feature all the time.

The Lee PPM that I setup yesterday looks like it might have this feature, but I'm not sure all the powder wouldn't leak out once you removed the hopper from the body of the powder measure.

[UNIQUEDOT]

You turn the hopper on the Lee to shut off powder flow before removing it.