Harvey Manfrenjensenden
Member
Hello & good afternoon all!
I have a question regarding the 5-0-5 scale. I received this scale from a gentleman at work who bought it with the RCBS RockChucker supreme kit a long time ago and he literally used it twice and it's been sitting in the factory packaging ever since. It's old enough that it's stamped "Made in USA" but I digress.
At any rate, I've done some work on the scale, such as honing the knife edges on the beam with a 1000 grit stone, (even stropped them) really cleaned up the agate bearings and polished their resting pads with Flitz I also polished the beam/tray hooks using Flitz as well so that I can be sure that the tray settles freely to the lowest point of the hook in a reasonably plumb setting.
My question (finally) is regarding the lead shot in the pan below the tray. I leveled the scale on my bench (which is also quite level) but I removed the shot, and used Duct Seal in the bottom of the pan. in doing so, I can keep the frame of the scale as level as possible and with the precise amount of compound in the tray it zero's out quite nicely on its own. I have to use the rotating foot plate just a hair when I pull it off the shelf and put it on the table between uses, but I'm talking just a little bit of a nudge for it to zero.
Duct seal (if you haven't heard of it) is like a tacky playdough, and I have it distributed in the bottom of the pan where the shot normally goes evenly and across the entire bottom. My thought process here was that it would help the tray on the hook plumb out without rolling weights being on one side or the other.
Yes, I realize I took a simple concept and probably overcomplicated it, (it's what I do, you should see me work on my Jeep). It seems to weight charges quite nicely, and is certainly on par in comparison to a (cheap) digital scale within a couple tenths of a grain, but my DS jumps a bit... It's not the "top of the line" model by any stretch of the imagination.
Do any of you who have more experience see any detriment in what I've done? I don't think so, but I want to be sure that I'm not overlooking something.
I have a question regarding the 5-0-5 scale. I received this scale from a gentleman at work who bought it with the RCBS RockChucker supreme kit a long time ago and he literally used it twice and it's been sitting in the factory packaging ever since. It's old enough that it's stamped "Made in USA" but I digress.
At any rate, I've done some work on the scale, such as honing the knife edges on the beam with a 1000 grit stone, (even stropped them) really cleaned up the agate bearings and polished their resting pads with Flitz I also polished the beam/tray hooks using Flitz as well so that I can be sure that the tray settles freely to the lowest point of the hook in a reasonably plumb setting.
My question (finally) is regarding the lead shot in the pan below the tray. I leveled the scale on my bench (which is also quite level) but I removed the shot, and used Duct Seal in the bottom of the pan. in doing so, I can keep the frame of the scale as level as possible and with the precise amount of compound in the tray it zero's out quite nicely on its own. I have to use the rotating foot plate just a hair when I pull it off the shelf and put it on the table between uses, but I'm talking just a little bit of a nudge for it to zero.
Duct seal (if you haven't heard of it) is like a tacky playdough, and I have it distributed in the bottom of the pan where the shot normally goes evenly and across the entire bottom. My thought process here was that it would help the tray on the hook plumb out without rolling weights being on one side or the other.
Yes, I realize I took a simple concept and probably overcomplicated it, (it's what I do, you should see me work on my Jeep). It seems to weight charges quite nicely, and is certainly on par in comparison to a (cheap) digital scale within a couple tenths of a grain, but my DS jumps a bit... It's not the "top of the line" model by any stretch of the imagination.
Do any of you who have more experience see any detriment in what I've done? I don't think so, but I want to be sure that I'm not overlooking something.