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My philosophy on scales is use a beam type if you want to measure out a quantity of something (like powder), but use a digital if you want to know what something weighs (like bullets). I've been de-rimming .22 RF cases & swaging cores in preparation to make a few thousand bullets. I got out my small digital scale that I bought on sale from Midway for about $25. I like to use it to weigh jackets, cores & bullets as I set-up my dies. I was not too surprised that the little scale was acting screwy again after sitting unused for a while. That usually means new batteries. Of course it doesn't use ordinary batteries but a pair of oddball batteries I had to go hunt for. When I found them, I bought a two-pack for about $5. Unfortunately with new batteries the scale was still not working right. I vowed right then that the next digital scale would work with "ordinary" batteries like AA or AAA. An Amazon search was in order which turned up these 2 scales while searching.
The first is sold as a jewelry scale, batteries included! The second is a Frankford Arsenal reloading scale which for about $14 more included a small plastic pan & a calibrating weight. They are identical so I order the $8.99 model. It works great & measures very accurately to the .1 of a grain using two AAA batteries, included! It works so good I'll get a spare next order.
Jackets need to be super clean to make a good bullet & annealing leaves a residue so the process takes a trip or two through a SS pin tumbler. Regular brass separators let .224 bullets & jackets fall through. I've used plastic screens, paint strainers, knitting grids etc. all with mixed results. I continued searching Amazon & I found a really neat sifter pan for separating SS pins from bullet jackets. Actually there is a series of pans design for prospectors. These work perfect on a 5-gal bucket. I ordered the one with 1/8" grid for $15.
After ordering these items I was on a roll & doing all the good - right? In the past, I some how managed to bust-up my magnetic pin transfer tool so when I came across another for $7 I decided why not get a replacement since it was about 1/2 of what I originally paid. Not so good a deal on this one, but handy all the same! Size matters & pictures lie!....LOL
The first is sold as a jewelry scale, batteries included! The second is a Frankford Arsenal reloading scale which for about $14 more included a small plastic pan & a calibrating weight. They are identical so I order the $8.99 model. It works great & measures very accurately to the .1 of a grain using two AAA batteries, included! It works so good I'll get a spare next order.
Jackets need to be super clean to make a good bullet & annealing leaves a residue so the process takes a trip or two through a SS pin tumbler. Regular brass separators let .224 bullets & jackets fall through. I've used plastic screens, paint strainers, knitting grids etc. all with mixed results. I continued searching Amazon & I found a really neat sifter pan for separating SS pins from bullet jackets. Actually there is a series of pans design for prospectors. These work perfect on a 5-gal bucket. I ordered the one with 1/8" grid for $15.
After ordering these items I was on a roll & doing all the good - right? In the past, I some how managed to bust-up my magnetic pin transfer tool so when I came across another for $7 I decided why not get a replacement since it was about 1/2 of what I originally paid. Not so good a deal on this one, but handy all the same! Size matters & pictures lie!....LOL
