Fast Weigh MS-500-BLK Digital Pocket Scale, 500 by 0.1 G
by American Weigh
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Fast Weigh MS-500-BLK Digital Pocket Scale, 500 by 0.1 G
Customer Review: The Lollipop Guild Would Love This
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be the teeny tiniest scale I have ever seen. It definitely fits in a shirt pocket. And it is a great deal to boot.
Two AAA batteries, included, run this scale. Power on is very fast. The blue back-lit screen is surprisingly easy to read. The scale stabilizes very quickly. The weigh pan is a stationary type - there are no moving parts, (some scales have a pan that moves up and down when a weight is placed on it, this scale pan does not move). You can flip the cover over and use it as a weigh pan if you'd like.
There is a lot of noise about a 500g calibration weight (this scale requires one for calibration). There are some simple free alternatives to buying a calibration weight. If you assume the scale is calibrated on delivery, simply find something in your house that weighs 500g - put it to the side and use that as a calibration weight in the future. If you aren't sure about the calibration, find an object that weighs almost 500g according to the scale. It can be anything in the world - a one-pound can of peaches would work. Next add smaller weights or tape to the object, until the object weighs exactly 500g according to the scale. Next, go to a deli or the post office and ask them to kindly weigh your object (both of these locations are required by law to have accurately calibrated scales, and 500g is in the sweet spot of their scales). If it is 500g exactly, you win; you just built a calibration weight for the scale. If it is off, add or remove tape or other things to get the object to exactly 500g according to their scale. Now calibrate your scale with this weight.
The directions are a lot more complicated than doing this in practice. There is no need to purchase a calibration weight for this scale.
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: 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
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...
Customer Review: A perfect little scale, uses standard AAA batteries, works great.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful little pocket scale. The picture just doesn't give a true impression of how compact this tiny marvel is -- it truly is a pocket scale. And unlike so many other pocket models, this one uses easy-to-find standard (at least in the US) AAA batteries. I bought two, checked them for calibration, and they were spot-on out of the box. I confirmed the readings with standard 50g, 100g, 200g, and 500g calibration weights, and this little unit passed with flying colors. Frankly, for the price I considered these things throwaway toys... but was very pleasantly surprised to find them not only useful, but actually good enough for serious use. An incredible bargain.
One note that somebody else has already mentioned: it does come with batteries, which is a plus. But the batteries are installed with plastic shrink-wrap covering, I suppose to avoid any potential for shelf-life run-down, or battery leakage. So you'll need to remove the plastic from the batteries before first use.