Fast Weigh MS-500-BLK Digital Pocket Scale, 500 by 0.1 G
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Fast Weigh MS-500-BLK Digital Pocket Scale, 500 by 0.1 G
Customer Review: How To Calibrate This Unit Without Buying the 500gram Weight
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this scale and love it. It's perfect for weighing gold, herbs, small packages, and so on. Fits in your pocket, or stores in your desk neatly, uses normal batteries. Mine works like a charm.
For those of you whining about not being able to "afford" the 500gram calibration weight, you don't need to buy a weight at all.
A U.S. Nickel (that round thing in your pocket worth 5 cents) weighs 5 grams. So 10 nickels is 50 grams and 100 nickels is 500 grams.
What you need is a trip to the bank or local friendly store, to get 100 nickels. There are 40 nickels to a roll, so 3 rolls of nickels will net you 120 nickels, but you only need 100 nickels, to make the calibration.
If you plan to weigh them while still wrapped in the paper, you will need identical paper wrappers to zero out the scale. I unwrapped my nickels, stacked them up on the scale, then calibrated it.
Now you can spend your nickels or you can save them for future calibration.
Wasn't that EASY?
Review by Dear Miss Mermaid, author of Hurricanes & Hangovers: and other tall tales and loose lies from the coconut telegraph
Customer Review: Great little scale, mine came with something extra... something sticky
Summary: 4 Stars
When I received this digital scale in the mail, upon opening it up my first thought was how compact it was (which is a good thing, IMO). It also had decent build quality for a $7 scale.
I went to power it on, and when I opened the battery casing, there were already batteries in there (another plus!!). It was strange, there was also some condensation (I thought was water) on the batteries and underneath them (thank god the batteries came wrapped in plastic even though they were seated in their proper slots). Upon cleaning it off, I had a strange film all over my hands that would not come off, save for washing them in soapy water. The batteries were some cheap looking korean brand, so it would not surprised me if they had leaked a small amount of battery acid. Anyways, I let the scale dry off after I cleaned it off, and I used a different pair of batteries (a couple duracells), and it worked just fine! I didn't want to try the other batteries after that crap got on my hands, but the scale is actually quite accurate and very decent for only $7!!!
I'll live with it for now, even though I might mutate into some creature later because of whatever that goop was that got on my hands. Oh well.
Customer Review: Tiny little useful wonder. It's perfect for making sure that your packages qualify for USPS First Class Mail
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this scale so I could weigh small packages/envelopes and print out USPS First Class Mail (FCM) shipping labels with exact weight in ounces. I'm glad to say that this scale has not disappointed me.
If you print out your own USPS FCM labels online then you get free Delivery Confirmation so this scale has already paid for itself at least 3 times over. Before I was going to my local post office and purchasing Delivery Confirmation for .90 cents for each package but now with this little wonder I can weigh my own packages and save cash. If you mail several small packages every week via FCM then the savings really do add up.
Despite it small size (2 1/2" wide x 3 1/2" long) it can weigh large envelopes because the cover also acts as a supporting tray. If you mail 8" x 13" bubble wrap envelopes frequently like I do then this scale will be perfect.
I'm very happy with my purchase and I would highly recommend this item to anyone who is looking for a quality scale at an economical price to determine if their packages qualify for USPS FCM.
Customer Review: Great little scale, but is it accurate???????
Summary: 2 Stars
I'd searched Amazon and it seemed like the reviews on this baby were ok, but when I received it, I guess I thought it had a weight that came with it so somebody could accurately calibrate it, but it didn't...
Most of what I weigh (small packages) weigh right around an ounce, and I NEED to know if they're OVER an ounce to buy the postage for each package. Well, I'd brought my scale to the Post Office and theirs always weighs around 0.4 HEAVIER than my little scale. And the AROUND is what messes me up. If it were EXACTLY then I could mentally adjust, but, this scale is becoming more of a bummer to me. I guess I have to buy a weight maybe to calibrate it, but they're not cheap either....I just needed a little cheap scale, but by the time I buy the weight, I should have just put the money into a better scale in the first place...
Just my opinion...
It would be a neat little scale if it were accurate...
(Maybe it IS accurate, and the Post Office's scale is CAN'T be...)
:)
Customer Review: Great little Scale
Summary: 5 Stars
I find it hard to believe that such neat digital scale cost so little. I have been using a laboratory beam scale to weigh silver coins in grams then convert to troy ounces. Major pain. I received the 500 scale from the seller very quickly. Very good service...
Now a low cost accurate digital scale that measures in troy ounces, wow! Yes, it is accurate compared to the lab scale... There are some minor inconveniences, but nothing a bit of forethought can't solve.
I have a pile of mixed silver coins, now it will be easy to sort them out by weight.
If you deal in coins the scale is very handy. Never buy in the open market without weighing! There lots of counterfeit and "short" coins out there..
One caution: Make sure the scale cover is on before removing the battery cover. Otherwise you can accidentally damage the scale by too much hand pressure trying to open the battery cover... You must open the battery cover to activate the batteries by removing the safety tab...