New Dillon powder measure

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Jeryray

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This weeks Blue press showed the new version of the Dillon powder measure.

Looks Like OLED?

Anyone have one yet?
 
I'm paging through the April 2017 edition of the BP but can't find a new powder measure. I might be interested however. What page or what issue is it shown?
 
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Perhaps you are referring to the newer bellcrank assembly. I did add one to one of the 550 , measurers. It seems to work fine, hardly experiencing any failures to return to battery. Still use the heavy spring return. However I had to modify mine slightly to get proper fit so don't know if it works exactly as intended. So was thinking about getting a second bellcrank for another 550 measure.
 
What we seem to have here is a failure to communicate.:D

A scale weighs powder......which is a measure of its mass.

A powder measure meters powder, which is another measure, this time volume.

I think he means the powder scale.......with an LED or OLED.....I can't tell which.

Is there such a thing as a P.M. with an digital readout? That would indeed be a new thing.

BTW, is the pictured scale a new one?
 
Looks like a powder SCALE with different housing.

Scale, measure, dispenser, trickler; different devices to handle powder.
 
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If I were going to upgrade, I would do something like this first.
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Unclenick,I visited Dillon many years ago, seems third party vendors were adding knobs for adjusting Dillon Powder bars. I tried to convince them it would be easy to make a better adjuster. They were convinced they had it they way they wanted it.

F. Guffey
 
I started this thread to explain what the new display looks like. It is a OLED display with high contrast.

I was excited to think I was getting another 1/2 digit resolution. But that only happens on grams setting.

Too bad would have liked that resolution.
 
Jeryray; I started this thread to explain what the new display looks like. It is a OLED display with high contrast.

I was excited to think I was getting another 1/2 digit resolution. But that only happens on grams setting.
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Jeryray, blame me for all of the confusion, it was not until Unclencik posted a link that I had a clue, but for $79.00 +/- a little I find that rather expensive for a reloader that has more than one powder bar. Had Dillon been listening a reloader would only need one gage for all of his and or her powder bar.

F. Guffey
 
One more thing I found. When the new scale is powered down, it does not remember the Grain scale that was set. You have to choose it again via the menu.
 
Interesting that it doesn't remember that you were weighing in grains.

A gram equals 15.43236 grains, so each 0.01 grams is about 0.15 grains. That's why the extra digit goes away when you switch to grains. It's actually the same order of magnitude of resolution. Some of the native gram-based scales round up grains to the nearest 0.01 grams, so the display skips some digits in the 10ths of a grain place, like shown below. Others, however, will take ten readings at a thousandth of a gram that is averaged for the hundredth of a gram of display to reduce jitter noise. These scales can convert their average to grains without skipping tenths, though the grain readings are a little less steady than the last digit in the gram scale. I am curious to know which type the current Dillon scale is? If it is the first, skipping type, the readout will display tenths of a grain as shown in the third column, below, and will display grams for the exact weights in the first column as shown in the fourth. Not to worry, though. European hand loaders have been using hundredths of a gram from the git-go, and it is close enough. We use the smaller tenths of a grain for historical reasons.

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Actual    Actual           Scale   or   Scale
Grains     Grams           Reads        Reads
0.0 grs	  0.0000 g	  0.0 grs	0.00 g
0.1 grs	  0.0065 g	  0.2 grs	0.01 g
0.2 grs	  0.0130 g	  0.2 grs	0.01 g
0.3 grs	  0.0194 g	  0.3 grs	0.02 g
0.4 grs	  0.0259 g	  0.5 grs	0.03 g
0.5 grs	  0.0324 g	  0.5 grs	0.03 g
0.6 grs	  0.0389 g	  0.6 grs	0.04 g
0.7 grs	  0.0454 g	  0.8 grs	0.05 g
0.8 grs	  0.0518 g	  0.8 grs	0.05 g
0.9 grs	  0.0583 g	  0.9 grs	0.06 g
1.0 grs	  0.0648 g	  0.9 grs	0.06 g
1.1 grs	  0.0713 g	  1.1 grs	0.07 g
1.2 grs	  0.0778 g	  1.2 grs	0.08 g
1.3 grs	  0.0842 g	  1.2 grs	0.08 g
1.4 grs	  0.0907 g	  1.4 grs	0.09 g
1.5 grs	  0.0972 g	  1.5 grs	0.10 g
1.6 grs	  0.1037 g	  1.5 grs	0.10 g
1.7 grs	  0.1102 g	  1.7 grs	0.11 g
1.8 grs	  0.1166 g	  1.9 grs	0.12 g
1.9 grs	  0.1231 g	  1.9 grs	0.12 g
2.0 grs	  0.1296 g	  2.0 grs	0.13 g

Mr. Guffey is correct about the Dillon adjustment for their powder measure. Even a simple knob with a 0-10 arbitrary scale on it would be helpful. One could count turns rather than have a real micrometer head on it. That aftermarket attachment is definitely a Cadillac.
 
Interested in obtaining the "New Dillon Powder Measure" per the thread's title, but only to find out that the post referred to a powder scale, I discovered that the measure I had been using for 40 years or so must have been the original 550 measure, complete with the little roller that kept falling off and a few other shortcomings. So finally catching up with things, I realized that the 550B and C measures qualified as a new measure, at least to me, and obtained one and it is a good improvement. The price is around $82 plus some shipping and NRA roundup. So if you are struggling with that original and outdated measure, you should give this newer measure a go. The older measures can also be updated with a new complete body collar and a new bellcrank.
 
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