Weight "standard" from household items?

[ivan747]

Damn, these new digital kitchen scales are great, I even get a choice of color  That's what happens when you want to appeal a consumer, mostly female market 

Sorry for bumping this, it was almost on page 2, I know. I'm just saying I'm going to get a digital scale from Amazon along with some other stuff, like maybe Eneloops, Dremel collets (I finally replaced my stolen one) and steel wire. It's amazing that Amazon stocks in its warehouse 1mm high carbon steel wire as well as food blenders, baseball hats and Mario Kart 

[Lurch]

It's amazing that Amazon stocks in its warehouse 1mm high carbon steel wire as well as food blenders, baseball hats and Mario Kart 

Erm, Amazon doesn't have warehouses, it just resells other peoples tat. Like ebay, or Aliexpress.

[ivan747]

Items often say "Sold and shipped by Amazon.com" or "Fulfilled by Amazon". Unrelated items with this same tag always come together as a single package, if I remember correctly. I guess they send the individual orders to a warehouse and combine them.

I always try to order from Amazon or getting fulfulled items so that I pay less for shipping. It gets tricky.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=106096011

[Morkal]

it depends on that for which purpose you are using that scale. Because both water and coins are best for setting scale standards.So if you are weighting anything than coin is best otherwise use water.

[KJDS]

It's amazing that Amazon stocks in its warehouse 1mm high carbon steel wire as well as food blenders, baseball hats and Mario Kart 

Erm, Amazon doesn't have warehouses, it just resells other peoples tat. Like ebay, or Aliexpress.

Oh contraire my dear Lurch. Amazon piles up other peoples crap in its own warehouses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

[Lurch]

Oh contraire my dear Lurch. Amazon piles up other peoples crap in its own warehouses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

Well fancy that. Can't remember the last thing I ordered from Amazon that came from an Amazon warehouse, but then I can't remember the last thing I ordered from Amazon either.

[turbo!]

Why not just purchase calibration weights? Industrial accuracy ones are rather cheap. American nickels are pretty close to 5g, but its bet to find one that's a tad over after its been cleaned and shave it down to 5.0000g

[Macbeth]

Bag of sugar = 1kg / 2.2lb

[mzzj]

Supermarkets here in the USA have installed very accurate digital electronic scales in the produce departments - the customer puts a potato or whatever on the scale and weighs it, enters the produce code and presses a button and out comes a printed label with bar code with the price, weight and item description.

You could take a collection of items to your local supermarket produce department assuming it has a similar arrangement and weigh them. 

The scales are required by law to be calibrated every year and to have an inspection sticker certifying they have been verified by the local government weights and measures department to be within tolerance.

And your typical supermarket has several scales so that you can check your item on dozen of scales and further decrease measurement uncertainty.