Handy Portable Scale (shopping)
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My local outdoor store which carries real backpacking equipment (conventional, not UL) doesn't have a scale for weighing things. The big box stores and other locations, of course, have none either.
I tried a 30 pound Berkley digital fishing scale and it doesn't do well in resolving fractions of an ounce, and often the indicator flashes up and down an ounce.
I found this item, American Weigh model SR-5 as a portable digital hanging scale which fits in a pocket and runs on 2AAA batteries. 4" x 2.3" x 0.7", 3 3/4 Oz. Hook fold up into slot on back.
It is listed as a fishing luggage scale with 11 lb capacity 0.01 lb resolution or a 5 KG .005 kg (5 gm) resolution.
Actually, it isn't exactly as described. There are two settings A) Lb-Oz and B)KG. In the Lb-Oz mode, it indicates pounds and whole ounces only – no fractions.
It turns out that if you want to weigh to .01 Lbs, you have to weigh it in KG which has a resolution of .005 Kg or 5 grams (which is 0.01 lbs), and then convert to Lbs or Oz with a calculator or multiplying it out.
http://www.americanweigh.com/product_info.php?products_id=1230
So, as a portable scale, call it a gram scale that has a resolution of 5 grams and it satisfies an Ounce Weenie, but not a full fledged gram weenie.
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