Mad Science and the Lee Safety Powder Scale
I got tired of having a plain old powder weighing setup and decided to tinker with it! Video!
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For those who can't be bothered to watch the whole six minutes, here's the cliff notes version:
- I started by replacing the magnets in the scale body with powerful, neodymium magnets to slow down and attenuate the seemingly endless bouncing of the beam.
- I also keep a smaller neodymium magnet at hand to slide under the pan in order to take any swinging of the pan out of the equation.
- I built a small table with four adjustable legs and a bullseye spirit level to keep the scale truly level wherever it sits.
- I modified my powder trickler to work more closely with the whole setup.