The piece of blue tape is for eye alignment. It eliminates parallax issues with the magnifying lens. A single kernel of extruded medium burning powder moves the pointer from eclipsing the zero line to resting at the top of it. These scales settle out in 4 seconds. I too use and recommend the Lee Perfect powder thrower, the old school plastic one. You can pay 10-20x the amount for a thrower and not get better performance.
I need to pick one up, stick powders in my RCBS measurer is a PIA.
Rcbs sucks for everything
For my Pistol loads I have two systems one uses the dipper trickle up method.
their primer tray works well!
And they do have the "rock crusher"...... sad to say but China will put the company circling the toilet bowl. And I have some Green on my bench. Just sad!
Cecil,
No worries at all. My experience with RCBS customer service (for presses) has been steller. I worry this will fade as China rots the company from within. To me RCBS has focused at startup reloaders and supported them with great customer service. RCBS rebuilt my Jr2 press for free I had purchased it used it had a broken handle they fixed it free of charge. the Jr2 handles all my dirty work its a very good press. I just hate that as Americans we loose another company to China!
Fourth went out today
Hi Scott!!! My 4yo grandson knocked my Ohaus 10-10 off my bench and must have stepped on the beam. It snapped in two. I have had this scale for over 30 years, and love it!! I'm totally bummed out! I called RCBS in hopes they had a 10-10 beam to replace it. They were no help. I emailed Ohaus and they promptly replied that I should contact their "Dealer Laboratory Instrument Specialists". I did so, and no luck there either. Soooo... I'm hoping that you have a 10-10 or 5-10 beam laying around doing nothing that I could buy from you?
Another option, if you haven't checked, ebay has used scales and sometimes pieces and parts that might help you out.
I called. Will check inventory.
Please do not patronize the "scale breaker" on eBay that is always selling scale parts (presumably by breaking up functional or whole scales).
Hi Jim!! I did check. All I saw was a couple of 10-10's that had only body/frames.
Put a wtb ad on the campfire n you will find one
Yes they are the same, except the 5-10 doesn't have the 500gr weight hanger on the beam like the 10-10's have.
I have a complete 10-10 setting on a shelf not getting used at all.... couldn't get it to zero & repeat like it should
Hi Larry... Scott is sending me a beam. Maybe between the two of them I can put together a trust worthy scale??
