Hey guys, I need a accurate scale for my coins and jewelry. I would prefer digital. Is there any scale under $20 you could recommend. I would like to weigh half dimes, pennies, and other lightweight objects. Thanks for your help.
I have a "Rite Weight" it's a digital pocket balance scale; mod# G-SA-TT-360B; Works with three AAA bat. A High precision Pocket Balance unit. So, far I have been satisfied with it, but cannot remember what paid for now.
I too use a DigiWeigh scale. Mine is a DW-100AS, can't remember what I paid for it. It weights to two decimal places in GR, Oz, OZ T, CT and DWT.
US Balance 1000XR, works great for me calibrates within .03 troy and on the money for grams, Harbor freight, 15.00
I got a nice one that weighs to .01 gram with calibration weight included for a bit over $20. what kills me is people want to check maybe thousands of $$ of items (total) but want to cheap out on the scale. spend a bit, buy a good one.
Same here, the calibration option and weights are the key. These digital scales can go out of whack (low batteries, etc.). I have a 200g calibration weight and a 10g test weight. Just finished a discussion last week with a friend, all his newly purchased coins were seriously underweight, it was the batteries.
I think "accurate" and "under $20" are mutually exclusive. IF you do enough weighing think higher cost. I bought a iBAL 201 Electronic Scale 5+ years ago. It was about $100 then and appears the be about the same now. But I needed the precision. For example there are some early '40 Japanese 1 sen coins that have varieties that weigh 1.00, 1.10 and 1.20 grams. You have to have a LOT of confidence in your scale when dealing with something like that. But to spend that much money you have to be convinced you'll use it often.
Just picked up another US Balance 1000XR at Harbor Freight for $10 didn't need it, the 5 year old is still great, and I do check it time to time, keep the batteries fresh, 8-12 months, no complaints.
I've done a bit of research and have bought this one myself and it works great, and it seems to do the most for the best price. Search 20g x 0.001g Digital Jewelry Scale ML-CF3 0.001 gram Professional Digital Scale on ebay see how well that will work for you.
It will depend on what you want to do, of course, but I'd recommend against the 20 x 0.001. Here's why: 1) Milligram resolution usually isn't necessary. I haven't yet found a case where 10mg (0.01g) resolution wasn't sufficient. 2) 20g capacity isn't enough for silver or Ike dollars, never mind ASEs, $50 AGEs or double eagles. I posted quite a bit about scales a couple of years ago. At that point, I bought a 30x0.001g scale and a 300x0.01g scale, both from eBay. I wanted the high-resolution scale to do some investigations with wear and toning, but I knew I'd want to check coins weighing a troy ounce or more (which exceed the 30g capacity), and I thought I'd be weighing rolls of halves (which require capacity greater than 200g). Both scales work well, but it's been a long time since I've used the milligram scale -- I do nearly everything with the 300x0.01 scale.
I use a Superior Balance Archery 550g/0.1g it's dependable cost around $20 from Wizards . I's good for weighing coins to 0.1g . http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/products/scales/
.03 troy ounce is one gram. A scale with only one-gram resolution is going to be of limited use with coins, especially half dimes, dimes and cents. For small coins, I'd be more comfortable with .01g resolution -- even .1g wouldn't be enough if you're working with half dimes.
If you are using a digital scale, remember that the last digit has been rounded. If a reading is 3.1 , the 1 is a number derived from rounding , thus if it is actually 3.05 to 3.14 , it will be rounded to 3.1 . The only accurate number is the 3. You should have a scale that can resolve the accurate number of digits ( 1 less than displayed) that you wish to have.
