I want to buy a pocket-sized digital scale for projects, mailings, and of course, weigh jigs and lures!
Anybody buy one of these?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000P1NYE8/ref=dra_a_cs_ss_fs_it_P1100_1000?tag=dradis-20
They are pretty cheap…but I don’t want one that is CHEAP and not do the job. Any ideas???? 
If I was buying drugs I wouldnt want my purchase to ride on a $6 scale but seems fine for lures. 
You would be surprized how many drug dealers use those $6 scales.Its all about profit now a days. 
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You would be surprized how many drug dealers use those $6 scales.Its all about profit now a days.
Source of said fact? 
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You would be surprized how many drug dealers use those $6 scales.Its all about profit now a days.
Source of said fact?
If it is all about profit, I would want to make sure I was weighing an ounce and not 2… 
damn druggies won’t take kindly to being shorted either… 
Boys, boys, boys – just want to weigh some jigs and lures mostly…
To return to your question Scott…I don’t know about the quality of the scale but you could always get a calibrated weight set to check it for accuracy. If you are truly concerned about accuracy that would be a suggested step anyway no matter the scale.
I know post office sells scales .
These small digital scales are very accurate, I use one for weighing my archery stuff. My arrows are all within a grain when I’m finished building them.
The one I have cost closer to $20 but they are all very similar. This is very close to what I have. Just make sure that what you buy will weigh high enough, most do not handle much weight.
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I don’t know about the quality of the scale but you could always get a calibrated weight set to check it for accuracy. If you are truly concerned about accuracy that would be a suggested step anyway no matter the scale.
We verify our balances at work daily with calibrated weight sets, but our balances are a lot more expensive and sophisticated. The problem is that buying a calibrated weight set is going to offset the cheaper price of the scale.
You could calibrate it with a nickel which should weight 5 grams.
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The problem is that buying a calibrated weight set is going to offset the cheaper price of the scale.
Exactly Ryan…that is why I said this:
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If you are truly concerned about accuracy that would be a suggested step anyway no matter the scale.
Depends on how anal retentive one wants to get.
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You could calibrate it with a nickel which should weight 5 grams.
Your should “calibration” weights should bracket whatever you want to weigh. So, if you want to weigh 1/4 oz jigs, you should verify that the balance is accurate with something < 1/4 oz and something > 1/4 oz.
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You could calibrate it with a nickel which should weight 5 grams.
This is a very good alternative for calibration. Could use a number of different objects with a known weight.
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Depends on how anal retentive one wants to get.
As a chemist, I get paid to be anal retentive
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As a chemist, I get paid to be anal retentive
Been there done that in a previous career spin…bioanalytic to be exact…too much fun for someone who can pucker with the best of them
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As a chemist, I get paid to be anal retentive
Case in point: I didn’t know a nickel weighed 5 grams, so I just went an weighed one on a good balance. 4.96386 grams 
OK. last one…Big Bang humor, but:
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4.96386 grams
You sure all those decimals are sig figs?
I am using a hanging scale for measurement which i bought at ebay in $35 its a digital one and enough for me for small weighting measurement. Otherwise i use kitchen scale for heavy measurement.
I bought one from HARBOR FREIGHT in Rochester. They had several sizes when I bought it. I went big time……..it was $14.99, on sale for $9.99!
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You could calibrate it with a nickel which should weight 5 grams.
Most dealers know this 
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