Best cheap scale?

What are you weighing? If cues, then what has been said...if weighing/mixing epoxies, west system make an awesome one for about $30
 
I just checked our kitchen scale with a 1 kg reference weight, and showed 1012 grams. Got my 200 gm reference and it showed 204 grams. They are only a 2 gram resolution reading. So not that accurate really. Until tonight, was un aware that I was making my scones a little on the light side. The next ones will be better.
For epoxy I use a jewellers scale , its in .01 gram increments and comes with a 200 gram reference weight. I see now that they make them to 1kg.
 
I have a few that West systems sell. They work fine, eventually they get gummed up with epoxy and PU, but I get a few years use out of the, They are about $30, so no big cost in the grand scheme of things.
 
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I ended up buying this $15 scale: AWS Series Digital Pocket Weight Scale 1kg x 0.1g, (Silver), AWS-1KG-SIL. The price dropped $2 after I ordered mine. I bought that one because it has a 10 year limited warranty:

We warrant that all Products shipped to you will be free of manufacturing defects or defects in materials or workmanship. The warranty period for American Weigh Scales Products is ten (10) years from the date of shipment, and the warranty for Fast Weigh Scales Products is five (5) years from the date of shipment. This warranty does not extend to damages or defects that we determine, in our sole discretion, result from (but not limited to) the following: misuse, unreasonable use, neglect, overloading the scale, dropping or otherwise shocking the scale, accident, improper service or calibration, normal wear and tear or other causes not arising from defects in materials and/or workmanship, or failure to use or store the Product in accordance with instructions furnished by us.
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I also bought a 500g calibration weight, which cost as much as the scale. When I received the scale, I weighed the calibration weight, and it weighed 500.5g, so I recalibrated the scale (which supposedly requires a 500g weight). After recalibrating, I weighed some nickels: one weighed 5.0g, and three others weighed 4.9g, so the scale seems to be reasonably accurate, and I was able to get repeatable weights for the butts and shafts that I weighed, so that's good. Note that the initial weight of the 500g calibration weight was only off by 0.5g which is .018 oz, so you don't need to get a calibration weight if you don't care about possibly being off my .02 oz. Edit: Well, I don't think the 500g weight I bought is accurate enough for calibrating scales: it's an ASTM class 7, which is not what Troemner says should be used for calibrating scales. Troemner says scales measuring .1g to .01g should use a Class 3 weight, and amazon sells a 500g Class 3 weight for $320!
 
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I have been using one of these to weigh epoxy mix and for weighing cues .............. every couple years there is so much glue on t that I can't read it............. so I toss it and buy another one.....................

Kim
 
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