Powder dispenser recommendation

[jmorris]

The powder I am using is HP-38. As suggested, inspected and cleaned it up.
"Do you check your scale by putting a volume on it, or a weight? See the difference?" I checked by weight with a calibrated Pact digital scale
As suggested, inspected and cleaned it up. Work good, last long time now.
Shoulda done that before creating a post.

Out of curiosity, what was the culprit?

 

[lightman]

It seems like I'm late to this party but I doubt that you find another PM thats better than your Dillon.

I did have one charge bar that was rougher than most and I rubbed the sides of it on a piece of emory cloth to smooth it up.

 

[Nature Boy]

Do you check your scale by putting a volume on it, or a weight? See the difference?

Again, I know what most people think, and that's fine. It's nonsensical to check color with a hardness tester.

I get where you’re coming from but weight and volume are directly proportional if density is constant so what point are you trying to make?

 

[mofosheee]

It seems like I'm late to this party but I doubt that you find another PM thats better than your Dillon.

I did have one charge bar that was rougher than most and I rubbed the sides of it on a piece of emory cloth to smooth it up.

Cleaned the entire assembley up...............consistently throwing same weights. thanks

 

[mofosheee]

Out of curiosity, what was the culprit?

The culprit was/is me and my failure to clean mechanism after loading sessions. Found particulate accumulation in loading chute. With that, pulled all dies and inspected/

Cleaned the entire assembley up...............consistently throwing same weights. thanks

cleaned internals

 

[mofosheee]

thanks everybody!

 

[Nature Boy]

The culprit was/is me….

That could easily be an epitaph on my tombstone

 

[MZ5]

...you check the setting of your measure by weight as well

No, sir, I do not. If I'm dispensing powder by volume, I dispense it by volume. If I'm dispensing it by weight, I dispense it by weight. Again, there's a lot in this that's not relevant to OP or this thread. If he's having on-target troubles and is looking into a variety of possible reasons, that's one thing. From his description, he does not have that issue.

 

[jmorris]

No, sir, I do not. If I'm dispensing powder by volume, I dispense it by volume.

Ok, how do you set that volume, of which you dispense, in an adjustable measure with no scale or graduations?

FWIW the fraction of a sentence you quoted didn't even have the word "dispense" in it. It only contained the answer to the question above.

 

[LV Gun]

I am probably not the norm I really don’t worry about the weight being off a few tenths I have never seen where it makes all that much difference. For the precision shooters , competition shooters it probably does make a difference but in handguns I have never seen where it really does. I drop all my powder on the press using all Lee Precision reloading equipment, since I put Titan Powder baffles in my Lee Pro Auto Disk and my Lee Auto drum I can hold 1 to 2 tenths consistently.

 

[Nature Boy]

@MZ5

I’m still want to understand your point. It sounds like you’re saying that you can’t correlate a volume measurement to a weight measurement.

Weight = Volume x Density, or at least it did when I woke up this morning.

 

[cfullgraf]

On my Dillon BL550, I use both a Uniflow and a modified Redding 10-X. Both use a Hornady case activated powder die system.

But, on my Dillon SDB, I find the Dillon powder measure works just fine.

Note, Dillon has a couple different charge bars for their measure. The difference is the size of the cavity. A large cavity charge bar will not meter small charges well.

 

[Dane R. Marley]

Do Not Buy a Frankford Arsenal Powder Intellidropper Measure, they do not work well. My replacement just crapped out worse than the first one that I bought. FA has not answered any of my complaints.

 

[JohnMc]

Weight = Volume x Density, or at least it did when I woke up this morning.

Same for every morning, even before we learned it, even for those who never learn it.
Gotta love the "DMV Triangle". The horizontal bar is divided, the vertical is times.

 

[MZ5]

@MZ5

I’m still want to understand your point. It sounds like you’re saying that you can’t correlate a volume measurement to a weight measurement.

Weight = Volume x Density, or at least it did when I woke up this morning.

I did not say that. If your last line there was all there was to it, why would you 'check' the weight your volumetric dispenser throws on any given cartridge in the course of a batch of reloads?

I'm keeping the stuff that's far OT to the thread or the OP out of my posts here, which may necessitate that I do not reply further in this thread.

 

[Nature Boy]

…..why would you 'check' the weight your volumetric dispenser throws on any given cartridge in the course of a batch of reloads?

You’re answering my question with a question but I’ll bite.

“Why” is obvious. You check the weight of the volume your dispenser throws to correlate it to your target weight.

What isn’t obvious is why you think this standard accepted practice of reloading is “nonsensical”, or were you just being pedantic?