RCBS 10-10 Finer View

[Rijndael]

I have an RCBS 10-10. I find that the alignment lines on the beam and on the scale are too thick. I've seen one add-on, where someone attached two needles for fine alignment.

Does anyone know if it was home made, or an accessory that someone sells?

 

[John Kielly]

Forget about that & make your own.

I use the stick on labels that come in the Sierra projectile packs. I cut an L shape out of it of the right dimension so that if you hold it upside down, the long leg can be stuck on the scale on the balance & the short leg protrudes over the length of the line on the balance arm. I laid it out so that the long leg of the L came to the edge of one piece of the protective paper over the stickum & I stripped that piece off to fix it to the upright. I left the backing on the short leg.

If you glue it on just so the top of the inverted L lines up with the bottom edge of the line on the balance arm (that means that it won't be precisely across the centre of the mark on the frame), you can read much finer. The way I reckoned it, the width of the datum line on the balance arm is better than .1 grain.

I'll take a photo later & post it.

John

 

[Rijndael]

I'll take a photo later & post it.

Thanks. I would appreciate that.

 

[John Kielly]

Here it is!

 

[Rijndael]

Thanks. You've given me a few ideas to try.

 

[Rustystud]

Beam scales are now outdated technology...

Make a wise investment and get an electronic scale. Even better get a RCBS 1500 Charge master you will not regret it.

Nat Lambeth

 

[Big Al]

Make a wise investment and get an electronic scale. Even better get a RCBS 1500 Charge master you will not regret it.

Nat Lambeth

Everybody is sure entitled to their opinion. I made a stand that sets higher on my bench and gets the scale higher to my eyes. You get a straight view that way. Sometime back there was a good post on improvements that helped the 10-10 scale. Some vary neat ideas.

 

[Rijndael]

Make a wise investment and get an electronic scale. Even better get a RCBS 1500 Charge master you will not regret it.

Actually, I have one. It's headed to RCBS for service, for the 2nd time!

I need something that can backup my electronic stuff, so that I can still get in some range time during all of this shipping and repair.

 

[Rijndael]

For anyone interested, here is what I came up with. It took about 10 minutes in Visio. It turns out that .1 gr is equal to about .030" of movement on the beam.

 

[Dennis Sorensen]

I mounted my scale on the wall at the back of my bench at eye level.
Well protected there and is very easy to read.
I do not weigh every charge.
I like my measure.

 

[Rijndael]

Dennis - Your scale seems to have the graduations on it, mine did not. Is yours newer or older?

 

[Big Al]

Dennis - Your scale seems to have the graduations on it, mine did not. Is yours newer or older?

Mine has the graduations, but then it says Ohaus on the scale and goes back to 1975 when I bought it?

 

[Dennis Sorensen]

Dennis - Your scale seems to have the graduations on it, mine did not. Is yours newer or older?

Mine is old... I think it was $11 in the late 60's... I can't remember but it was cheap... I have always thought of it as the RCBS 1010 but it is Ohaus.

 

[Silverfox]

I don't have a photo of the thing I rigged up, but I took a magnifying glass that is about 3.5" x 2" and is in a plastic frame. It had a female threaded socket where a handle used to be attached and that is what I threaded onto a fine threaded machine bolt and fastened it up in the shelf in front of my scale. My scale stis on a shelf above my reloading bench at eye level. I adjusted the magnifying glass so it magnified the end of the scale beam that points to the graduation lines on the scale. This made it very easy to see when the pointer was at the 0 mark on the scale.

 

[Trevor60]

i recently acquired the same scale shown in Dennis pic it is an ohaus 10-0-5 scale. it seems to read finer graduations then my present 10-10 ohaus. I picked mine up off of ebay.