Lyman Gen 5 error 040

[Capt. Oblivious]

Anyone ran into this error before?
A friend of mine has one of these Gen 5 Lymans that work perfectly last week but the last couple of days just shows error 040 on the screen after he switches it on.

I told him it might be time for something new but he seems to like the scale, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[cmysix]

And calling Lyman would be out of the Question?

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

And calling Lyman would be out of the Question?

When they are working I'm sleeping so I thought id try here but it was a faulty power supply if anyone ever gets the same error

 

[divingin]

Found a post where a guy with a Gen 6 had the 040 error. He said he called Lyman and was told it was powder inside the unit causing problems.

"Anyone looking for a fix for this fault - I was in contact with Lyman. Very helpful.
Short version, if you pick up the machine and move it side to side and hear any powder in it you need to strip it.
Strip top as if cleaning, pull the pad up and off where the weight pan goes.
Turn it upside down, 6 screws, 4 you can see and 2 under the front pads. Remove all of them and the machine slides apart.
Blow out all loose powder. You can switch it on and check it will zero properly at this point.
If not - there is a plastic strip in the middle for weight bar. 2 screws on it, remove them and you might find some powder under it, blow out/remove powder. I was informed to be very careful with this as it is delicate, put this back together and check for correct zeroing.
Then just rebuild.
Worked for me.
Hope this help someone as I couldn't find anything on this anywhere."

Lyman gen 6 040 fault

Has anyone had any dealing with this fault? Really frustrating. It wont hold zero and manages to throw some dodgy loads which is not ideal so have to manually check every one. I called the dealer who I got it from and they said - tough luck it 2 years old so no warranty! I have seen on...

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