Does anyone know of a decent jewelry scale?

[John 'n' W.Va]

I cashed in a jar of coins today and I wanted to buy a jewelry scale. E-bay has all kinds of them. The funny thing is one scale I was looking at was $7 and at the guys store it was $24. Another place on E-bay had them for $3. I don't need one that cheep, but what is up with the price variations. I just don't want to be taken. I wanted one that weighs up to 500 grams, because some of the bullets I find weight almost that much. I need it so I can better identify bullets and it would be nice for weighing jewelry. I saw a letter scale at Sam's for $16, but it doesn't weigh in small enough increments. Can anybody help me? What do you use?

 

[cwilk]

The deal on Ebay with jewelers scales is they all practically give you the scale and charge you about triple or more actual shipping charges. I have several scales. The scales in my field kit and that I keep with my coin stuff are Digiweighs from Ebay. I think they were both around 15 bucks shipped. Make sure you get one with a calibration weight included. I bought one of the 50 gram max for the field and a 100 gram max for home. They are pretty accurate and easily as accurate as I require. I tested them out with brand new coins from the mint and they usually weigh to within about 5 hundredths of a gram. Every once in a while I have to recalibrate which is hard because the instructions are in English written by a Chinese speaker.

Chris

Look how close it is on the Ike Dollar.

 

[John-Edmonton]

http://www.canadianweigh.com/scales/pocket-scales/list

 

[khouse]

I use this one and it works great. See if you have a harbor freight near you to save shipping. They were on sale for $9.00 two weeks ago. See if they will sell it to you for that?
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93543

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

[quote khouse]I use this one and it works great. See if you have a harbor freight near you to save shipping. They were on sale for $9.00 two weeks ago. See if they will sell it to you for that?
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93543[/quote]
I was looking at that one in their book. The nearest Harbor Freight is 1 1/2 hours away from me. They want $12.99 for it and $7.00 shipping. My wife says for me not to buy it now. We will probably be in Fl. in two weeks. They have a lot of them there. I have bought two things from them this year and it was at their Fl. stores.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

[quote John-Edmonton]http://www.canadianweigh.com/scales/pocket-scales/list[/quote]

I saw that Lux 600. In Canada it is $27, at the man's store off E-bay it is $24. On E-bay he has it for $8 and another guy has it for $3 on E-bay. It makes me think what is wrong or how can they sell it for $3 and another guy sell it for $27. CRAZY!

 

[sandcrab]

Save your money till you get to Florida, every corner store sells digital scales, dozens of different models at the Flea Markets. These items are in high demand down here due to the failing economy and all the recently laid off folks turning into drug dealers, well its either deal drugs or mow the rich folks grass... glad I have a new lawnmower!. I could walk to the local store buy a scale and be back home within 1/2 an hour...

 

[cwilk]

Sad. Has to be at least 95 percent of these scales are used by druggies. Shoot it's probably more like 99.9 percent. The little black scale I posted a pic of on this thread is a replacement for a scale that I bought on Ebay which did not work. I emailed the guy and told him. He phoned me and helped me try to get it going and then when he was certain it was defective said he would send off a replacement asap. We chatted for a few minutes and he said there is one company in China that makes about 90 percent of the digital scales sold in the US. They put all kids of labels on them. My two just happen to be Digiweighs. Anyway he asked me what I was weighing and I told him. Jewelry, bullets, coins etc.... He said it's nice to know that two of his units weren't weighing cocaine and laughed. He also sells a lot of food scales for dieters.

My coin guy friend has a very expensive and very accurate scale and my two little 15 dollar scales (6 bucks with 9 dollar shipping) agree to tenths of a gram or tenths of a pennyweight and what more does anybody need? If there was a Harbor Freight close to me I'd buy that 500 gram scale.

Chris

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

Wow, I glad you told me. I will stay out of the drug business, too much competition.

 

[rmptr]

Harbor freight is an hour and a half's drive, for me also...

At today's fuel rate, it's not hardly worth it.

Yup, there's a LOT of competition in the druggy business, from what the papers say...
And a lot of wild and crazy clients!
Just can't see that the profit would compensate for the aggravation.

And then there's the funtax collector...
They pop up EVERY time you have too much fun.
(It's their job to wreck your whole day, and then some.)

I'll stick with the treasure finding, and hope one day I'll need a BIG scale!

HH
rmptr

 

[awhitster]

I bought a Triton T2 on Ebay. Got a good deal on it. Do a search for them.

TRITON T2