I have an RCBS 502 beam scale which I find very accurate and consistent. Purchased after my kit came with a Lyman digital scale which was very inconsistent and needs constant re-zeroing.
I also now have the RCBS auto powder thrower which is electronic but just as accurate and reliable as the beam scale.
Andy
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I have an rcbs 10/10 scale which I find very accurate, however mines is a USA made model, I did hear that rcbs later moved production to Mexico and the quality dropped but I've no personal experience of this.
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If you can find one the RCBS (Ohaus) 304 aka ‘dail-a-grain’ are pretty nice
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All the common RCBS scales use exactly the same knife edge/floating agate bearing set-up so none is more accurate than the other. The 502 is a simple two poise scale, the 505 a three poise scale, not necessarily better, some prefer it for easier setting but it adds something else where errors can creep in. The 5-10 and 10/10 use exactly the same beam with a rotary poise system. All these scale are now discontinued, they were dropped by RCBS around 4 years ago. They have been replaced by two new beam scales, the M500 and M1000.
All RCBS scale (made by Ohaus) produced for the last 8-9 years were either made in Mexico or China with variable quality.
A Redding No 2 is usually a good bet.
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Hens teeth Terry.Originally Posted by thibben
If you can find one the RCBS (Ohaus) 304 aka ‘dail-a-grain’ are pretty nice
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Guy thanks for the informative replies. Redding No 2 is on order, this was highly rated on other forums as well.
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Good choice. Here's a video of a Redding No 2 in action, this ones nearly fifty years old and still going strong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz2SWCjj5e4
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The finest beam scale you can get is the Ohaus Dial-O-Grain, i nearly bought one but realised they are set up for a left handed trickle so i use the second best RCBS 10-10s
TB.
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