Has anyone had troubles with RCBS Scales?

Smokin250

Smokin250

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I have had a 5-0-5 for 5-6 years now and recently have started having issues with it. While I am trickling powder into pan sometimes the bar will stick, they I will either re-start or "bounce" the bar and it will be way off. Then ill load a couple more and it will work fine and be repeatable, and a few later it will stick again. I can tell when it is doing it but it just aggravates the heck out of me, not to mention if I miss it once I could have too much powder in it. It has always stayed calibrated, but the sticking drives me nuts.

And now my buddy purchased a 5-0-2 off a member here and his just started doing same thing. Thinking maybe he was doing something different I had him bring it over and set it side by side with mine, and sure enough his is acting up as well. In the process of checking out his I also noticed his was not calibrated properly. His was a couple of grains off, repeatable, but off.

On mine I called and will be sending it back to be fixed, and we will call today on his....It just seems odd to see them both have issues. I've not heard of people having problems with the RCBS scales before.

Any thoughts?
 
If your scale is "hanging", I'd bet either the bar is bent a slight bit, or the bearing surfaces that the arm rests on are dirty. It doesn't take but a minute amount of dust etc to cause this to happen.
 
I have had this happen and it has always been the pivot point. I use a Q-tip and dampen it with rubbing alcohol to clean the area. Works after that.
 
Me too. Bought the scale new and it drove me nuts. I'd fill the pan than all of a sudden the scale would read 50 gr over when it never budged before that. I tried cleaning and just about everything.

What finally got it working was running a jewelers file over the pivot. Never seen another scale do this other than the 5-0-5.
 
I had a problem with a 505 scale once where it wouldn't zero. Called RCBS they told me to pull the pan apart take all the little balls out of it and put it back together then add balls until it was zero'd. Worked.
 
Originally Posted By: willy1947


Get a set of weights from RCBS and do not touch them with your fingers.




how will this help his problem? and why not touch with fingers?
 
make sure that the rail its rides on are not touching the ends and that the copper blade isnt hanging up.

Im getting ready to send my 10-10 in to scott parker get it tuned up right for some LR shooting.
 


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