Thanks for the tip about ebay.
I found the American
Weigh matchbox scale on ebay for 16.99, with a battery included.
It was sold
by an ebay store called Zurbs which is located in Canada.
Zurbs can be found
here: stores.ebay.co.uk/Zurbs
I
ordered the 300 x 0.1 scale, and it arrived in my mailbox in Norway 6 days
later.
It was properly packed in a small cardboard box that fitted my mailbox
without any problems.
It was nice to not have to go to the post office to
pick it up!
Maybe i even saved some toll or expedition fees becuase of this?
I don't know.
About the scale:
It's very small!
The outer matchbox
cover is made of cardboard and will proboably wear out if the scale is used
alot.
I don't use it, as it's just an extra cover to remove every
time.
The "inner" plastic cover seems to be protective, and it fits
nicely as an expansion tray.
I accidently pushed the plastic cover in between
the the scale and the weighing platform a couple of times. I don't know how
damaging this is, or how often it will happen in the future.
A friend of
mine did the exact same thing the first time he tried to slide the lid back
on.
i'm not really sure about the accuracy, becuase i don't have a 300g
weight to calibrate it.
I weighed a norwegian coin that's supposed to
weigh 9.9g, and the scale shows 10.0 or 10.1 every time.
(This happened
before my mishap with the plastic cocovver, too, btw)
Maybe a calibration
will fix this.
Unfortunatly no one on ebay sells 300g calibration weights. I
probably have to buy a 100g and a 200g one, and use both to calibrate.
I
was trying to verify my numbers just now, and realized the batteries was empty
already.
Seems like it doesn't have an auto-off function then....
This is
a flaw. Now i have to buy a new battery just because i forgot to turn it off (i
think).
All in all:
It is small!
It is cheap!
Matchbox cover is
useless!
I might have to calibrate it! (i don't know how much extra weight
dirt on a coin adds to the total, but 0.1 or 0.2 seems abit too much)
It
doesn't have auto-off! The batteries are dead already.
Apart from that it
looks really nice.
Hey again ezOp! Thanks for
Hey again ezOp!
Thanks for the tip about ebay.
I found the American
Weigh matchbox scale on ebay for 16.99, with a battery included.
It was sold
by an ebay store called Zurbs which is located in Canada.
Zurbs can be found
here: stores.ebay.co.uk/Zurbs
I
ordered the 300 x 0.1 scale, and it arrived in my mailbox in Norway 6 days
later.
It was properly packed in a small cardboard box that fitted my mailbox
without any problems.
It was nice to not have to go to the post office to
pick it up!
Maybe i even saved some toll or expedition fees becuase of this?
I don't know.
About the scale:
It's very small!
The outer matchbox
cover is made of cardboard and will proboably wear out if the scale is used
alot.
I don't use it, as it's just an extra cover to remove every
time.
The "inner" plastic cover seems to be protective, and it fits
nicely as an expansion tray.
I accidently pushed the plastic cover in between
the the scale and the weighing platform a couple of times. I don't know how
damaging this is, or how often it will happen in the future.
A friend of
mine did the exact same thing the first time he tried to slide the lid back
on.
i'm not really sure about the accuracy, becuase i don't have a 300g
weight to calibrate it.
I weighed a norwegian coin that's supposed to
weigh 9.9g, and the scale shows 10.0 or 10.1 every time.
(This happened
before my mishap with the plastic cocovver, too, btw)
Maybe a calibration
will fix this.
Unfortunatly no one on ebay sells 300g calibration weights. I
probably have to buy a 100g and a 200g one, and use both to calibrate.
I
was trying to verify my numbers just now, and realized the batteries was empty
already.
Seems like it doesn't have an auto-off function then....
This is
a flaw. Now i have to buy a new battery just because i forgot to turn it off (i
think).
All in all:
It is small!
It is cheap!
Matchbox cover is
useless!
I might have to calibrate it! (i don't know how much extra weight
dirt on a coin adds to the total, but 0.1 or 0.2 seems abit too much)
It
doesn't have auto-off! The batteries are dead already.
Apart from that it
looks really nice.