Good grief, the old mechanical beam scale versus the newER digital electronic scale debate.
Of course BOTH have applications in today's handloading hobby. Back in '98 I bought a RCBS powder pro digital scale. It still works just great. Never has failed, always shows the check weights to weigh what they're supposed to. Accuracy to one tenth grain is all anybody needs. That scale was made by PACT for the guys in green.
About 3 years after I bought the powder pro, I added a PACT dispenser to it to automatically measure each powder charge,
to the tenth grain. It too has continued to work as designed.
You devotees of balance beam scales try this trick. Place an empty case that's ready to be charged on the scale pan. Zero the scale to show no weight with the case on the scale pan. OOPS, you can't!!
Alright do the same on a digital scale, tare the case to show zero. Now charge the case, place it back on the scale, the readout is ONLY the powder that you just dumped in the case. Easy way to see how much powder is actually in the case, also see any variation in each dump of whatever measure you're using.
Weighing odd weights is as simple as placing the item on the scale. No guessing what you
think it may weigh. Like two H xtp bullets, both magnum but one is a 300 grainer, the other is a 350, but both look alike.
Sorting my cast boolits. Unseen voids are hard to detect. But placing a casting run of boolits one at a time on the digital scale is as quick as you can pick one up and place it on the scale platen. Beam scales would require moving weights around on the beam to see the actual weight.
As for not trusting electronics, what are you doing on your computer? Or your cell phone? Most cars today are controlled by several computers. There's no adjustments to control spark advance or dwell, like on my 66 chevell 327.
