Digital (Gear / Food Weighing) Scales

[Wayback]

Being too cheap to buy a scale to weigh my gear (I would rather use the money to buy the gear), I use the postal meter in my office. It's accurate and measures to tenths of an ounce, though it rounds everything in between up to the next tenth (i.e, 1.22 oz will display as 1.3 oz). I do get some funny looks from my partners and staff from time to time when I am weighing underwear, TP, and such like.

[Bobeford]

I use an Ohaus triple beam balance and have the weights that allow me to weigh up to 2.61 kilos by the tenth of a gram. This pretty much covers any individual items I would want to carry.

What I would like to find is a good mechanical hanging scale that would go up to about 100 lbs or 40 kilos to quickly measure total pack weight when packed. The spring hanging fish scales I have are neither very precise nor accurate.

[roverboy]

I've been using a cheep scale as well. I was thinking about getting a more accurate scale now that I'm turning into a gram counting SUL weenie. I just purchased a iBalance i500. Thanks for the pointer WildlifeNate!
Barnett

[microzen]

I am looking for a scale to weigh food before and after dehydration.
I also plan to use it to weigh gear.
My current thought is the Ohaus CL5000 is 5000g +/- 1g.

Any recommendations?

Thanks!

[Mocs]

I have been happy with my Myweigh 3001p. It comes with a bowl that is helpful for hard to weigh items.

[Kylemeister]

I picked up a digital scale at Bed Bath & Beyond (or one of the similar chain stores) a couple of years ago. It weighs in grams and 1/8 pound increments. That and a spreadsheet is a ton of fun for us folks with OCD. I weigh everything in grams, and convert the total pack weight to pounds for an easier reference as I learn more about real world metric measurements.

I keep a tab in the spreadsheet for each trip, since we typically only do a few trips a year. It's nice to look back and see how much weight I've cut over the years. I went from carrying around 80 pounds in 2008, to about 40 pounds in 2009 because I started scrutinizing everything that went into the pack. I'm debating working on getting my total pack to around 20 pounds for a couple of trips to New Mexico between May & August this year.

[Mountaineerbass]

Originally Posted by Wayback

Being too cheap to buy a scale to weigh my gear (I would rather use the money to buy the gear), I use the postal meter in my office. It's accurate and measures to tenths of an ounce, though it rounds everything in between up to the next tenth (i.e, 1.22 oz will display as 1.3 oz). I do get some funny looks from my partners and staff from time to time when I am weighing underwear, TP, and such like.

LOL! I do the same, it is not such a big deal for me, considering a few of my co-workers do the same.

[microzen]

Originally Posted by Mocs

I have been happy with my Myweigh 3001p. It comes with a bowl that is helpful for hard to weigh items.

I went with the MyWeigh 5001p. 15 pound range. I checked it against a chemistry scale and it is within 2 grams over the range. Pretty nice for $35.
And the bowl is handy too.

Thanks for the recommendation.

[niallgar]

On the advice of DustyBoots I got the NeXXtech scale. Works great.

I recently saw a scale in Canadian Tire made by StarFrit for around $30.
Starfrit also makes a new scale that calculates calories of many different food items.

[chadwicksavage]

What are you all using to weigh your gear? What should one expect to pay for such a scale and how accurate does it need to be?

[PBF Support]