Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles RCBS Charge Master problems.....

Any of you had any problems with the CM?

I've praised this unit as it's so easy and reliable. For a year and 1/2 at least Now the touch pad has went crazy, I get the wrong number when I touch a button. IE get a 6 when I hit 4 or a 0 when I hit 5 etc. I have to punch in the number about 10 times before it actually gives the right digits, but once you enter it, it dispenses that amount fine until you change weights again.

Got in touch with RCBS and they said out of wtty, send it in and we'll fix it for $45. I told them I expected more time out of a $300 unit. I knew the wtty was only a year, but expected more from an RCBS product. Oh well, it will be a $360($45 + shiping) unit now. Maybe it will last a little longer this go around.

Have a good one,

loder

Same problem with mine last winter (my loading bench is in my garage). For whatever reason, now that it has warmed up, it functions fine, so I've procrastinated on sending it in.

John

I had one a couple of years ago that the electronics went haywire when it was past the warranty period. RCBS replaced it free of charge.

"For a year and 1/2 at least Now the touch pad has went crazy,"

Sorry about that but you got whole a year and half outta a cheap Chinese touch pad. That's not too bad for that sort of stuff; ask any electonics repairman!

Those things aren't really repairable, they're "toss out" devices. The $45 "repair cost" is probably all RCBS pays for new ones.

My 46 year old beam scale is still as dead-on accurate and sensitive as it was the day I opened the box and is likely to be so after another 46. (Ain't no digital gimmicks on my loading bench and I'm a retired space program electronix measurement instrument tech!)

Boom, I have 3 beams as well. The 1010 is hard to beat, but the CM will spoil the heck out of you on large batches. By the time I've seated a bullet and put it back in the block, it's waiting on me to drop another charge. Really speeds things up and it check's out with the beams in accuracy. I still weigh individually when doing load development, but the CM is a very good tool to have (when it works ).

I got mine the same year they came out 3-4 years ago...


Still works great.


I have used beam scales and will again... after the Holocaust.


But while we have power... I will use the RCBS Charge Master


Back to the problem...


Send it back. What can it hurt?

I have one that has worked perfectly for about seven years. Maybe I don't use it enough, but I also baby it. My bench is in the garage. I always bring the CM and scale back into the house so it stays dry and at a constant temperature. Can't say that has made the difference but maybe???

If it worked for 1� years and they fix/replace it for $45, it really only cost you $30 a year for "maintenance." That's paltry, IMO. Your purchase price isn't gone if you still have a working machine after the repair.

Make sure that you don't have a wireless modem or some other RF radiator near it.....they have been known to pick up electrocrap and go bonkers.