Joyce Lee, Jim Lee on thu 1 may 97
June,
In the archives somewhere there's information about a company that sells
reconditioned digital scales. I bought one for less than $80.00 last
year after getting the info from Clayart. It appears to be new. It's
perfect for potters.
Joyce
Struggling to learn to throw large plates in the Mojave. If I ever
succeed, it'll be worth the struggle.
Fred Paget on sun 4 may 97
>In the archives somewhere there's information about a company that sells
>reconditioned digital scales. I bought one for less than $80.00 last
>year after getting the info from Clayart. It appears to be new. It's
>perfect for potters.
>Joyce
The company is Dharma Trading Co. in San Rafael CA.(415-456-7657) (Just up
the road from me) I will phone them Monday and see if they have any left. I
bought one a year ago and it worked fine for a long time until the display
got a loose connection and the top of the digets didn't show. I took it
apart and wedged some sheet foam under the loose comtacts to push them in
tighter and it is working fine again. It has a sensitivity of 1 gram and
goes up to 5 pounds (what ever that is in grams). There is a switch to
choose grams or ounces.These are actually Frieden postal scales.I checked
mine with a set of metric weights and it was right on calibration.It runs
on an AC adapter that came with it. It is supposed to run on batteries also
but mine is not happy with batteries so I took them out and use the
adapter.
Dharma is a supplier of Sodium hexametaphosphate (the old type Calgon)
which is sold for fabric dyers.They also have big inexpensive cakes of
beeswax and parafin wax that they sell to batik workers. These items are of
interest to potters and hard to find.
Usual disclamer. I am just a customer of theirs.
Fred Paget---Mill Valley,CA,USA
Marianne Lombardo on thu 22 feb 01
Hi Cindy
I have a digital scale as well. I was really lucky, and mine was free.
It's a very old laboratory scale made by Mettler and weighs up to 800 grams
at a time, in 1/10th of a gram increments. I believe originally it was used
to weight ink (I think).
It's lost is proper tray on top, so I had to supplement with a plastic
container and add pennies until I could zero the scale.
Just for general information, I've been told that a lot of the companies
that sell new scales, often get old scales (such as mine) that they consider
next to worthless and sell for very little.
Marianne Lombardo
Omemee, Ontario, Canada
email: mlombardo@nexicom.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Strnad"
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Beam scale vs. digital
> A word about scales:
>
> I bought a digital scale, maybe last fall. Weighs up to 1000 grams, to
> within 1 gram accuracy. It is a Tanita model 1144, and I believe it set me
> back about $70. The only "flickering" I've observed is when I'm near the
> weight of the next gram up. This is handy, as it gives me an idea of when
> I'm "dead on" and when I might be at a half gram higher. Useful for things
> like chromium, though not needed generally.
>
> Now, nothing beats the accuracy of a good quality beam scale, properly
used.
> But I think this digital scale matches it. I tested it out with all my
> little weights and it was right on every time. It's quicker, relies less
on
> my patience, and cheaper. It tares out the weight of my measuring cup with
> the touch of a button, flips from grams to ounces easily, and is quick to
> clean. So, not all electronic scales are created equal, apparently. I know
> I'm very pleased with mine.
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