How To Use Lee Powder Measure

09-29-2011,07:48 PM

Simply how accurate is the Lee Perfect Powder Measure? Is it worth purchasing?

09-29-2011,08:08 PM

it is kind of hard to prepare. the micrometer is cheap plastic and have getting employ to. once its ready up it measures consistantly +or-.1 or better. I only loaded about 200 rounds with it so i dont how long it will last. so far for the toll its worth it.

09-29-2011,08:14 PM

You lot get what you pay for. In my limited exp. Yes when it is prepare it will through consistent powder charges, with nearly types of powder.
I had trouble with smaller flaked powder an ball pulverization. The small granules get lost in the barrel of the dispenser.

09-29-2011,08:38 PM

It sez "perfect" in the name.
They wouldn't lie, would they?

I wouldn't have a clue. Just I do take two powder measures I really similar and they seem to hold right on.
One is a very onetime Redding, the other an RCBS.
I randomly check with a scale and most usually I get accented bulls-eyes on the axle. (Checking is prudent and necessary for accuracy and safety.)
I require very accurate powder charges of my equipment, but very rarely do I have to use my powder trickler.
Practice note that some powders are

NOT pulverisation measure "friendly". They can be a PITA.
But for me, for what I employ, I do like using a powder measure.

09-29-2011,08:44 PM

umm i bought a spare so i think it'due south worthy , the master matter with any measure for repeatable results is repeatable actions - always operate it the aforementioned and that makes all pulverisation measures fairly close ( unless you're measuring long long sticks or super fatty flakes )

09-29-2011,09:08 PM

I started with a Lee, but it leaks like a sieve with all pulverisation types other than stick, only is excellent when information technology comes to metering stick powders. I have a Lyman 55 which doesn't leak, but stick powders don't meter equally easily as the Lee. And then, I use the Lee for stick powders and the Lyman for all others. Of the two, I prefer the Lyman.

I think Lee, RCBS, Lyman, Hornady, and Redding all advertize that their measures are accurate to +/- .1 grains.

09-29-2011,09:20 PM

Here are some actual examination results with the Hornady powder measure.

http://www.reloadingtips.com/reviews...er-measure.htm

Good measures are quite accurate if y'all use the correct metering pulsate. Most of them volition do +/- .ane grain if you are careful and consistent AND if you use a ball blazon powder.

NONE that I have always used volition do that good with extruded powder.

09-29-2011,09:22 PM

there is no better than the Lyman 55 there is trick to brand information technology piece of work Smoothen and it volition with whatsoever powder Merely by far the best, I have 6 and and looking at 2 more on feebay

09-29-2011,09:52 PM

I accept a Redding, an MVA version of the Belding and Mull, and a Lee Perfect. The Lee does about too equally the others, but I had to lap the rotating parts with a fleck of valve grinding compound and end with borepaste to get a good, leak-proof fit. Now information technology doesn't leak even the fine ball powders, and information technology is more pleasant to use with big stick powders than the Redding. Information technology likewise looks cheap, feels cheap, and is cheap (inexpensive). Nonetheless I like information technology, I peculiarly like the cutoff for the hopper which lets me remove it to pour pulverisation dorsum into its tin. For a starter measure out you lot could spend a heck of a lot more and not be any more functional.

Jerry Liles

09-29-2011,x:01 PM

13Echo For a starter measure you lot could spend a heck of a lot more and not exist any more functional.

That'southward an interesting statement ......as I believe that argument can as well be applied to the residuum of the Lee product line also. The concept of being functional and priced reasonable is pretty much what has kept Lee Precision in business organisation since 1958.

If you practise get a bad product , they take always stood behind their products with good warranty / repair service.

Ben

09-29-2011,10:18 PM

Quote Originally Posted by shotman View Post

at that place is no better than the Lyman 55 there is play a trick on to make it work SMOOTH and it will with any powder But by far the best, I have 6 and and looking at two more on feebay

Can you share the hugger-mugger?

09-29-2011,10:23 PM

OK 462,
What is a stick powder?
Thanks

09-29-2011,x:37 PM

I'm not 462, merely I feel certain this is what he is talking about :

http://www.biggamehunt.internet/graphics/...ell_8208-3.jpg

Ball powder is much finer and has a completely different advent and behavior when metering
through a powder mensurate.

09-29-2011,10:46 PM

Thanks, Ben.

Some examples of popular stick powders: The 4895'southward and 4350'due south, and 5744.

09-xxx-2011,12:43 AM

If what you lot are using for a powder measure is working well for y'all and then by all means continue to employ information technology. If it "walks" or leaks and so you have to decide if you want to have the problems on an ongoing basis and play with them or go something meliorate. The metering of pulverization is a critical pace in terms of safety and accurateness, so you have to make a solid phone call on what you do with that pace. At that place is no such affair as a "perfect" measure out although some come (pretty) close in terms of consistency and reliability. All should be checked against a reliable scale that is itself checked. The measure has to debate with variances in humidity, density, variances in lot and flow so you lot have to lookout what is going on. Static electricity is as well a problem although ti tin can be reduced or eliminated by wiping with a canvas of laundry anti cling product that is usually put in the dryer. Baffles likewise help. All the major reloading brands produce decent measures, but a couple are kind of pricey. Keep the measure(s) make clean when not in employ, don't get out powder in it/them when you are not loading, and keep information technology/them lubricated with some powdered graphite..(never oil or any petroleum based product). LLS

09-30-2011,12:50 AM

I accept a couple of Lee's, a Lyman 55, and a Hornady Bench Rest Lock & Load powder measures.

The Lee's once broken in are every bit accurate as whatsoever of the others if not more so. Some claim they are made of cheap plastic, well no more cheap than the mouse or reckoner y'all're using, or the large screen TV your famile watches, or whatsoever of the i,000 of other items you lot use in your daily life.

Next time yous go to your Dr's function, check out the cheap plastic machine he uses to check you lot over for cancer.

09-30-2011,06:10 AM

The Perfect does an splendid job for y'all. I but pick up a 'second' from LEE for $fifteen.
As information technology comes from the manufacturing plant information technology has a flaw. The plastic parts the brand up the drum don't fit well.

As the molded plastic cools it warps and forms depressions in the mating surfaces. This will permit finer grain powders get in between the to rotating parts and cause it to bind. Loosen it up plenty that it doesn't bind and information technology will leak.

The fix is to lap the to pieces together until you remove the depression spots. I use valve grinding chemical compound for the big work and so finish with 300 grit.
Once y'all do this AND run a pound or and then of pulverization though information technology. It will exist nigh the all-time powder measure you could ask for.
Instead of running a pound of pulverisation through it you tin employ graphite to the same effect.

09-30-2011,07:xviii AM

Frozone again you lot have come to my aid. Last time he helped me setting upwards my PID.
Thank you lot for describing how to plug the leaks in my Lee power sifter. I volition exist fixing mine this evening.
Kevin

09-30-2011,08:33 AM

Quote Originally Posted past shotman View Post

there is no better than the Lyman 55 there is trick to make it work Polish and information technology volition with any powder But by far the all-time, I accept half-dozen and and looking at 2 more on feebay

Aw man, meet I Hate the 55. It was my first measure and I have little proficient to say about it. I finally got it to drop an exact charge of Red Dot and I exit it in that location and never bear on it.

The Redding BR, RCBS Uniflow, the old Bonanza and virtually other measures are far, far easier to work with than the 55 IME. To each their own.