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I have one of these but neverreally got round to using it basically as I was loading 38 special and 223 with cast bulets and squib loads.
The problem was repeatability.
I took to customising dippers which really worked well until I bought my rossi r92, my ammo consumption rocketed from very ittle to several hundred weekly so I ask the question, is it possible to get 6 grains of Lovex D036 to meter reliably and accurately with one of these or should I swap to a meter with fixed charges? I'd prefer not to as I've started bumping out 223 with barnes varmint grenades at the rate of about 50 per hour on my early lee turret press.

i only used mine for shotgun reloading. I prefer instead to use a press mounted solution. I really like my autodrum powder measure. it's a similar design to the PPM, but I found it worked a lot better as it vibrates with the press movement. and settles the powder reliably. I've been able to throw VERY small amounts of fine powders like trueblue, and large flake like A1

I've found the Lee Perfect measure works very well - I've got Lyman and Redding measures but prefer the Lee, mainly due to the design with the polymer wiper that avoids cutting kernels. Saying that, for my "cowboy" gallery loads I use a Lee disc measure on a turret press. For my rifle loads, I'm never in a rush so use the Lee PPM for 98% and trickle the balance.

I have my PPM set up to fit on adaptors I made that push into powder through dies, it works quite well. There' an image hereabouts that shows mine.
I've just been reading up on the lee auto powder measure I may go down that route, especially for 38 loads.
The PPM is set up to throw 27 grains of lovex D073.6 for my 223 with 50 grain Barnes varmint grenades. The dies in the press are 357 magnum ones as I'm loading a couple of hundred tomorrow and will set it up first thing whilst the good weather holds.

I had one of those Lee presses and the same powder measure about 35 years ago.

I have several Lee PPM all of them marked with the powder & charge weight I have set them at for the calibres I for which reload. And yes I do check the throw weight each time I use them.

Alpha1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:08 am I had one of those Lee presses and the same powder measure about 35 years ago.

Last well don't they. Had a new link sent from the states when the original broke a few years back, couple of images and e-mails and lee posted them to me AFTER I paid the postage, pretty smug until I found the part on henry krank for just over half the price of the US postage (about equal if I paid HK's postage) so evened things up.
I nearly changed the press last week but had second thoughts, it's working well and I'm happy withe the results.
Channel 12 I checked every 10th load. Within a couple of tenths of a grain.
Your's isn't a bad idea, I load 4calibers, 38, 357, 30/30 and 223 and I'm pretty much standardised on them all except the 30/30 may pay me to buy some secondhand ones.
If only the 357 could take 16 grains of 2400, I could get away with just 2 more!!

Project in the pipeline. Lee measure.
https://vimeo.com/822441737?share=copy

I think that's too complex for a stupid old man like me. But I like the idea.

I use the Lee PPM and think it is good piece of kit, but I still wouldn't trust it to throw consistent charges every time, particularly with coarse powders such as SNIA GM3 which can bridge.
I throw a charge, then decant each one into my beam scale to check it prior to loading.
I have had a few occasions when the measure has thrown a light load due to bridging, particularly with GM3 or Lovex DO60.
Checking 1 in 10 could miss a light load followed by an overload, not a good scenario.