Sweezer?

So it took no less than 9 emails back and forth but I did manage to get a weight from Sweezers. They claim they weigh 0.02 ounces or 0.56 grams! That beats the pants off of my sliver grippers if in fact it is true. I could always move my sliver grippers to my carry-on travel kit and keep the Sweezers for the back country so I just might give these a whirl.

sounds cool! I wouldn't consider buying new tweezers if I already had some that worked, but for someone building an UL kit these sound good. Here's a site that has them for about $18 shipped http://www.discountbeautycenter.com/Appliances/Implement-Groom-Aids/Sweezer-Tweezer-46735.htm

what's a tweezer for in the backcountry? ticks and thorns?

the smallest swiss army knife I carry comes with a tiny one that seems sufficient for ticks..

Yes, ticks, splinters, thorns, etc. I keep some tweezers in my first aid kit since the weight penalty is so low and the utility so high. I am always willing to shave 5 grams off my setup if I can though! That and I enjoy the challenge of continually shaving weight especially in places where most folks don’t look.

Good information here: Longwalking – Tweezers

I found a British site that has them even cheaper delivered, I paid $17.40 delivered.

Beauty Bay – Sweezer

As soon as I get them, I’ll toss them on my microgram precision scale at work and post up the true actual weight. I like having access to a $2,000 scale for precise measurements!

Picture says it all. They are not even remotely close to 0.5 grams! Save yourself the trouble and just use Sliver Grippers!

Wow, that's a lot of digits on that scale! I looked up Mettle Toledo, but all of their scales had too many digits in their price also.

It is WAY too expensive for a hobbyist but having sweet geek equipment at work is an excellent fringe benefit for an engineer! This scale ran us $1,500. You know you're looking at a big-boy scale if it has a draft guard around the weighing pan.

Chris
No offence, but since you have access to a "$2000" scale I thought that you might have a better idea of
what .5g really is . How can something like that weigh .5g ?
In my mind the "Sweezer" people did not lie to you, they just got the decimal to ounce conversion wrong.
5.89 g is .2oz, not .02 oz. However to a metric person .2 or .02 of an ounce is all the same.
Franco

Franco,

No worries and sorry my estimating skills aren't up to your standards. I confirmed with the rep twice that it was 0.02 ounces and not some other unit or value and he was firm so I took a chance. I'm out $15 so no major loss. But I did purchase their product under false pretenses since I emphasized I was after one feature and one feature only.

If you clip your toe and fingernails before heading out, the weight difference might just be a wash! :D

my AMK tweezers are 4g…