I just purchased this small fold up, portable scale at a special price of $9.95 for weighing discs. It handles up to 300 grams at 0.1 accuracy. I got the 300g calibration weight and with shipping it came to $27. Looks like a good deal for anyone who might want to check their discs.

www.gramscales.com/product_info.php?cPath=102&products_id=510 (http://www.gramscales.com/product_info.php?cPath=102&products_id=510)

Thanks Chuck34, I just got one also.

Let's hope it's worth it. I'll report back when it gets here.

Please let us know....heck of a buy it seems!
Hope its what you want!

scales like this are fairly accurate for weighing a 175 gram disc ( + or - a gram or so) as long as nothing too heavy ever gets set on it.
the thing is after weighing 1000's of parts ( a few days worth of molding,,,) they usually start jumping around a few grams. Once they get out of calibration a few times they are usually done.


earlier this year a guy sent me a link for a scale that he swore by that cost about $60,,, so I bought 2 and they were off 1.5 grams between them from the start and completely unreliable after about a week. we keep them around the shop for a quick reference, but wouldnt use them at the machine.
We've tried just every digital scale made under $300 and nothing outperforms a triple beam ($300) in both accuracy and longevity !!
once we went to only using the triple beams at the machines we started getting far less complaints.

a typical high end digital scale for production starts at about $2,000.00 and quickly go to $4K or $5k and even these need calibrating every so often.

I won't need it for production control, just a few discs now and then. It will likely get used more to determine postage than disc weights. ;)

oh,
I thought you were planning on bringing out to events this year to let players weigh their discs.

I might have it there just in case some old guys show up trying to sneak in those old school 240+ gram Super Class discs Greenwell and Stork warned me about. :D

I might have it there just in case some old guys show up trying to sneak in those old school 240+ gram Super Class discs Greenwell and Stork warned me about. :D



From Chuck Kennedy 03312007:

If overweight was the issue, I'm not sure we want the TDs to be required to referee this issue. I'm really not sure what I would do as a TD if faced with a request to confirm weight. It's not like I can check it later since it may involve payouts either with a 2-shot penalty or even DQ.

The word "required" is key in my comment. It's one thing to "require" TDs to referee current production already intended to be produced within the current specs. It's another to optionally check 'ancient discs' produced before any specs were in place. The good news is most of those old guys couldn't or wouldn't want to toss a 240g disc even if they had one. :)