Looking to buy another scale. I had an old Berkley that would read + or - up to 3 lbs.So it accidently hit the garage floor about 70 MPH.

Looking  for a hand held up to 50lbs.What should I buy.

Thanks in advance

C22

A-Jay

9 hours ago, Catch 22 said:

Looking to buy another scale. I had an old Berkley that would read + or - up to 3 lbs.So it accidently hit the garage floor about 70 MPH.

Looking  for a hand held up to 50lbs.What should I buy.

Thanks in advance

C22

 

LOL, floored at about 70mph, eh? You musta loved that scale  

 

I have lost too many digi-scales to Davey Jones' Locker over the

years that it pains me to buy another. Yet I did, via eBay, and it 

is a simple luggage scale (recommended on the forums) and I 

also bought a grip like in @A-Jay's photo. It works well, but the

other day it got wet and suddenly stopped. It's back working now

but I was so thankful to have my super-accurate Boga with me

that day.

 

 

 

Thanks for the help,just ordered one.

I don`t weight fish very often,but when I do ,I want the truth

1 hour ago, Catch 22 said:

Thanks for the help,just ordered one.

I don`t weight fish very often,but when I do ,I want the truth

 

The full thread of a load test on this type of scale is here: Luggage Scale Test

 

Here's one post from the above thread:

 

I scored a fairly good deal on some laboratory calibration weights on eBay - a set of eight 500 gram weights (~1.1 pounds each). I haven't a clue as to what  tolerance "class" these weights would be in but I imagine they are accurate to something less than a gram.  These weights allow for load testing my digital scales in 1.1 pound increments up to approximately 8.8 pounds (4 kilograms).  I tested Unit number 1 at every increment from 500 grams to 4000 grams. The scale read dead-on at each increment. I then added my 9.804 lb test weight to the stack for a calculated weight (in pounds) of 18.618 - the scale read 18.63 pounds (0.2 ounce heavy).

 

I then tested my other three units (at 1000 gram increments) and the biggest deviation was unit number 4 at 4000 grams where it read 4020 grams (0.7 ounces heavy)

 

Unit 1 at 4 kilograms:

 

 

 

Unit 1 at 18.618 pounds:

 

 

 

Documented results:

 

 

FOUR bucks each. Scary accurate.  Good enough for me...

 

I also use the portable luggage scale. I bought 4 of them and just stash them all over. They seem to be very accurate and the 4 of them weight very consistently, good enough for me.