Recommend a scale for me

[Lemon Thrower]

I have lots of 90% halves wrapped in $10 rolls. I'd like to weigh these accurately to separate the heavier rolls from the lighter ones. A 90% half is 12.5 grams, so a full roll should weigh 250 grams.

Is a $20 gram scale you get at the head shop good enough to do this, or should I shell out for a scientific scale?

We home school so I wouldn't mind paying up for a good scale because we'll use it eventually for science labs. What scale would you recommend and what should I pay? What features do I need to look for?

[bman]

I have 2 digital gram scales. One was $80 ordered at Staples office supply, the other was $17 at Harbor Freight tools. I use both to weigh coins and jewelry.
The only difference I have found between the 2 is that I have to hit the "TARE" button more often to reset the cheaper scale to zero after weighing something.
Both scales have a 500 gram capacity and weigh in Grams, OZ, OZT and DWT and both weigh in 1/10th gram increments.


I just checked Harbor Freight's website and they don't sell the same scale anymore but here is a link to the one they do carry for $11.99 that does 1000 grams

http://www.harborfreight.com/1000-gram-digital-scale-97920.html

[Market Harmony]

eBay item# 250743113314

[TXBullion]

eBay item# 250743113314

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 765wt_1141

[97guns]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Electronic-Dig ... 3f073f0be4

what can i say, im a cheapskate. works great, might of even been made by the same kids as the other reccomendations.

[didou]

I buy the cheapest i could find on ebay from HongKong for $5-7 each shipped.
I have 2 of them and both work fine and are very accurate 0.01g, my only error was to buy a 200g max capacity, i could use a lot higher than that. I though i was only needing it to weight single coin, turn out i use them very often to weight rolls and many rolls are over 200g

[chris6084]

I buy the cheapest i could find on ebay from HongKong for $5-7 each shipped.
I have 2 of them and both work fine and are very accurate 0.01g, my only error was to buy a 200g max capacity, i could use a lot higher than that. I though i was only needing it to weight single coin, turn out i use them very often to weight rolls and many rolls are over 200g

I'll second this one. I bought a cheapo from Hong Kong for the same price. No brand name. This thing is great, and I used it mostly to weigh 1982 pennies. Never had a problem with it.

[DirtyFingers]

I have several but my favorite is a US-Magnum 500gx0.1g that joethejeweler from the old GIM site recommended to me about three years ago. He said they ran several of them everyday all day without any problems and were extremely accurate. If it's good enough for joe, it's good enough for me although next time I may step up to a 1000g model of the same make.

DF

[Beau]

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the US Magnum 1000g model is on sale at Harbor Freight for $11.99.


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[DirtyFingers]

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the US Magnum 1000g model is on sale at Harbor Freight for $11.99.


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Yeah, thanks Beau. I saw bman's post with the link. Harbor Freight has a better price on the 1000g then Ebay has.

DF

[Beau]

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I didn`t realize that was Harbor Freight, Bman posted.

the top of the page didn`t come up on my computer.

I just thought Ebay which it is most of the time when smeone post something


THANKS Beau


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[jtlee321]

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-300g-x-0-01g-Mi ... 414a0b48d1

Here is the one that I bought last year. It works great!! It will weigh any roll you want as well as give 0.01 gram accuracy. I have not had any problems with it at all. It will weigh in G, OZ, OZT, DWT, CT, GN, T units. It also has a counting mode which I use for rolling pennies. The lid will act as a tray to do your counting. I take it with me in my pocket to yard sales, antique stores, Good Will, etc...

[Lemon Thrower]

thanks to everyone. glad to hear you all find these cheapos to be accurate.