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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1923373, member: 19463&quot;]Yesterday I received my newly purchased scale.&nbsp; I suppose it would be inappropriate to give the link or name but I will do a short review of features and you can decide if you think I was correct in my choice.&nbsp; First, I was not willing to pay the price for what might have been the &#039;best&#039; scales and that may mean that the one I have will not last.&nbsp; I can not tell in a day or a year if it was good in that respect.&nbsp; My previous junk scale had a calculator built in to the cover but the display on that calculator never worked.&nbsp; Guarantees mean nothing when you have to pay the return postage which is half of the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>The new scale measures up to 300g which is way more than my heaviest coin and claims accuracy of .01g.&nbsp; It was $16.99 postpaid which is more than several but I paid the extra for one specific feature.&nbsp; It came with two 100g calibration weights and one 10g weight to check the results.&nbsp; Calibration requires both of the 100g weights.&nbsp; Some scales came with a single 200g weight or some other configuration but the pair of 100g weights allowed me to weight each separately and compare.&nbsp; Both of the weights had a machined dimple in the bottom where they had been reduced to the weight from the original casting AND both had rough gouges in the base as if someone had used a knife to remove just a bit more metal.&nbsp; I suspect this explains how both weights were exactly the same weight to .01g on my old scale and the new one and read 100.00g on the new one suggesting it was calibrated recently.&nbsp; The 10.00g weight also read exactly 10.00g.&nbsp; I then used one of those 100g weights to calibrate my old scales which now reads also exactly 10.00g.&nbsp; As I see this, the value received in the set is more for the matching 100g weights than it is for the scales which strikes me as perfectly fine for my uses (as was my old scale except that I had no way of calibrating it unless I used the guesstimate by nickels method.&nbsp; I weighed my assemblage of new looking nickels and found a range of 4.94 to 5.07g.&nbsp; Randomly selecting five, I got 24.99g so that really is not all that bad unless you randomly selected the wrong nickels and either added a .05g error with each one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My next&nbsp; step will be to weigh all my recent purchases on both scales and to compare those numbers with the results provided by the sellers.&nbsp; Obviously I expect a company like CNG to own a better scale than some eBay amateur seller but it will be interesting to see if I can predict what a coin will weigh on my scales from what a seller said it weighed and how the last several coins I got from them weighed. </p><p><br /></p><p>The 10g check weight is way too heavy for most of my uses.&nbsp; I would like to have a really accurate .05 weight just to see if things are linear.&nbsp; Does all this matter?&nbsp; Not really but it was fun.&nbsp; I do believe that either of my cheap scales is capable of weighing accurately but I also believe that you need the calibration weight to feel comfortable with that last digit.&nbsp; Most of us could do well with a .1g scale but I see no reason not to but the .01g model unless you plan on weighing really heavy objects (I collect meteorites, too but most are under 300g so this will be fine).&nbsp; I do notice that there are a few scales claiming .001g accuracy but having a range only up to 20g and many of my coins are over that.&nbsp; All the ads and paperwork warn that damage to the scale will occur if you weigh something heavier than the stated limit.&nbsp; I won&#039;t be testing that feature.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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