Equipement advice

[Ironmike5585]

What model and brand do you use for weighting ww./lead.

Will a cheap walmart one work or there is a certain one every one uses.

[OS OK]

I found a digital 25 pound kitchen scale that weighs out in kilograms, grams and pounds & ounces. It is battery or wall powered.
I blend lead in 30 pound batches and can weigh the different component metals easily.
I would imagine there are many manufacturers out there...check with a kitchen accessories type store.

Some of the fellas will tell you that a regular bathroom scale will get you by. Prolly so.

[claude]

My Weigh UltraShip 35I can't give you the link because he isn't a sponsor, but search the above and look for old will knott. $27.50 and it works like a champ.
Weighing Modes

Mode:
Capacity:
Resolution:


Pounds : Ounces
0 lb - 2 lb
2 lb - 35 lb
0.1 oz
0.2 oz


Pounds
0 lb - 2 lb
2 lb - 35 lb
0.005 lb
0.01 lb


Ounces
0 oz - 32 oz
32 oz - 560 oz
0.1 oz
0.2 oz



Kilograms
0 kg - 1 kg
1 kg - 16 kg
0.002 kg
0.005 kg


Grams

0 g - 900 g
900 g - 16000 g




2 g
5 g

[jsizemore]

I use a My Weigh 55. Good to a .1 oz below 2lbs and .5 oz above 2 lbs. Uses C batteries and has been working great for 12 years.

[DerekP Houston]

I use an old digital kitchen scale I no longer use in the kitchen. Works for my purposes (not exact as others).

[bangerjim]

I use the one I got at Harbor Freight with the 20% coupon. Works great for ingots. Accuate and repeatabl when I compared it to my standards set of weights.

[runfiverun]

I have a food scale for small amounts of stuff [lube making mostly] and the old bathroom scale for the 100lb weight batches I normally mix up.

[Skooterr]

I use the one I got at Harbor Freight with the 20% coupon. Works great for ingots. Accuate and repeatabl when I compared it to my standards set of weights.

Is this the one?
http://www.harborfreight.com/70-lb-32-kg-digital-postal-scale-95069.html

[farmerjim]

I use a 60 lb produce scale. I got it off the internet for about $ 35. The state charges me another $35 every year to certify it to weigh vegetables.
Any cheep scales should be good enough.

[Half Dog]

I use a shipping scale that I got from Amazon.

[Walter Laich]

At the above prices I would be all over one if I could come up with a need....

my recipe for alloy is add something till the melt is some shade of silver and cast from there,

I PC all my bullets (which come out of cowboy actions firearms) so this works for me.

[Mk42gunner]

I use an old 25 pound Hanson kitchen type scale that my grandpa bought sometime in the 30's or 40's; at least Dad said he remembered always having it when he was a boy in the 40's.

It has been accurate enough for me so far.

Robert

[Ironmike5585]

Thank you guys. Really helps.

[Alan in Vermont]

I have three imported digital scales, one goes to the low 30# range and is 8-9 yrs old and still works/weighs fine.

Also a similar one that maxes out in the 70# range. I bought that one so I could weigh ingots enough to fill a MFRB to weight capacity in one shot. Also has been working fine and I rarely have to weigh any one component of an alloying batch in anything but a single run. Less math involved that way.

The last one is a low capacity, on the order of 6#, "counting" scale. It will weigh directly our you can set if with a counted sample, I generally use 50 for that, then it displays the number of widgets you add to it. Fast enough to keep up with slowly pouring parts onto it and has good enough discrimination to "see" a single 380 case added to the pan. I usually weigh in 500 pcs batches when bagging brass, it has capacity enough to handle that count of 380-9mm-40-45 brass, maybe 223 also but I don't remember that for sure. At any rate it's way faster than hand counting.

There are a bunch of imported brands of those scales available, all are externally identical. The two bigger ones are WeighMax and the counter is a My Weigh. There are also digital fishing and luggage scales. At some point I will get one of those so I can weigh buckets of material when I'm scrounging.