Scales

Frothy · Post by **Frothy** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:28 am

hocus pocus - bit of this bit of that, eh seveneer?

lol
Matt

Seveneer · Post by **Seveneer** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:16 am

Yeah, it was a bit like that yesterday. I used to use the kitchen scales until I started doing 10 gallon batches. It'd take all day to measure out 12 kg in 250g steps

noby · Post by **noby** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:25 am

bitter_dave wrote:(my remarks about getting digital scales were not in response to your scales - I hadn't seen your post)

Ah, right. Fair enough. To be honest the scales gets pretty full once you pass the 1/2lb mark, which is fine for weighing speciality grains and hops. If I go all grain I might have to get something bigger.

monkey_doctor · Post by **monkey_doctor** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:48 pm

http://www.xs-stock.co.uk/product.php?xProd=38

i use these and cannot fault them - they measure in gram increments as well which is good for those accurate small amounts but still have a 5kg max load. Pretty cheap compared to some ive seen.

monkey_doctor · Post by **monkey_doctor** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:03 pm

DaaB - they run on a 9v battery.

Post by **Andy** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:19 pm

I've got some 5kg/1g resolution digital scales from Lidl - less than a tenner I believe.....

Scooby · Post by **Scooby** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:54 pm

5kg...thats handy. do they run on proper batteries and not those watch/button batteries which run out quickly?

Get one that runs off a wall wart.

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:43 am

We saw a clock in maplins the other day that is powered by mud...yes mud...very strange

Scooby · Post by **Scooby** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:30 am

OK i'll bite...whats a wall wart?

Wallwarts are a fairly recently discovered infection, in the last 10-15yrs there has been an outbreak of them.

Some are permanent and are difficult to remove and most people end up ignoring them; others are less permanent appearing every so often and then disappear soon after. Being parasitic they feed on your power supply.

We all have them if fact we canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t live without them, There transformers BaaBÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s powering all manner of things, scales, radios, routers mobiles dam ugly but useful.

Post by **Andy** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:33 am

Ah, I have a few of those!

Got some cream for them.

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:36 pm

I have some digital kitchen scales however I want to replace them as I don't think they are very accurate....

I recently weighed some Ginger Root and it weighed in at about 300g (can't remember exact figures). So, I split the batch in half. The first half weighed 150g as you would expect. I then compared by weighing the other batch. 175g.... I had gained 25g of Ginger. I combined the 2 lots again and re-weighed. 300g. Split 150g & 175g. Either REALLY inaccurate or a result of a dying battery (damn oversized watch battery style).

For my grain I'm going to use the bathroom scales. For the hops I think I'll look into buying some new scales (I guess I could just change the batteries - might bee cheaper! - We have had them for about 5 years!!!)

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:54 pm

What a fantastic idea. I have a 1.5 litre jug so I'll weigh that.

Such simple ideas but never considered until some bright spark comes along

Thanks DaaB

Post by **Andy** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:00 pm

Don't forget to zero the scales with the empty jug in place PoP!

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:13 pm

I've got several jugs of varying sizes so any of them will do the job perfectly

I'll see which one is most convinent for the weighing and use that

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