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Bargain scales
« on: August 16, 2010, 07:10:10 AM »
There's a retailer specializing in cheap, made in China tools, who sells both on the Internet and in company owned stores. This vendor now stocks a pocket scale that often goes on sale for $10. It reads down to a tenth of a gram, has a max capacity of 1000g, tare and counting functions, a stainless steel weighing pan with a good quality plastic cover. It replaces a flimsy model they sold previously for the same price. 

This thing is surprisingly high quality, and is easily the best made little pocket scale I've ever seen. I checked it with calibration weights and found it right on up to about 200g, at which point it was off by 0.1g. I bought two so I'd have a spare. Check it out if you need a scale and can live with the limited resolution.

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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2010, 10:02:05 PM »
I also own one,they are great!
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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2010, 03:11:28 AM »
I just checked and the scale is presently on sale for $9.99 on the Web Page. A search for "scale" will find it. Another that  comes up on the search selling for $13.99 is the crummy old one. Don't buy that.

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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2010, 07:58:35 AM »
What use is an 0.1g scale? not for many 'RCs', I have weighed DMT out on one, but it is an exception, and with experience, I am personally comfortable not using a scale, or doing a rough volumetric dilution.

Many headshops in the UK cary 0.01g scales, I got one for under 20 GBP and it has served me faithfully for quite some years.

10mg resolution, isn't sufficient for my needs as such, in the pharmacological department, but for chemistry experimentation, then it is perfectly adequate for most uses.
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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2010, 08:19:36 PM »
Make sure that you are checking with a few calibrated scales since the error is seldom linear on cheaper load cells. I got one for around 20GBP and found it was out by over a gram at the 50g mark. Decided to invest in a 0.00001g scales and I have never looked back.
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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2010, 11:05:18 PM »
Will get myself the sort of scales that would make the good doctor Sasha Shulgin wet himself with jealousy as soon as I can afford it.

Hoping my venture in synthesizing the AMPAkine sunifiram will do just that.
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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2010, 06:40:31 PM »
A 0.1g scale is useful for lots of things, as long as you're not doing quantitative analysis. The error may be non-linear on these scales, but if the firmware is done correctly it doesn't matter because it knows where the error is and how much to compensate. Your 0.00001g scale is doing the same thing, it just splits a lot more hairs, takes a lot longer and costs a lot more.

If you need to weigh out a single dose of LSD you should probably have something better, though, unless you really aren't picky at all. :)

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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2010, 08:31:33 PM »
Volumetric dilution series is needed once shit gets THAT small.
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Re: Bargain scales
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2010, 09:34:56 AM »
It didn't cost a hell of a lot more since it was second hand ... the better load cell is worth it. I experimented with the cheper scales first and while 0.1 g resolution is fine for most purposes I prefer better. Also having a levelling bubble means that you are more likely to be measuring correctly by applying the weight to the load cell evenly since that is how the system is designed to work. This is much more of a factor at lower weights.

Still no way I would weigh out a single dose of LSD, hell I wouldnt do it for less potent RC's.
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