I got home for the holidays and have a few friends that are intrested in learning how to make ejuice, I brang all my supplies but forgot the scale. Does anyone know a store i can get a decent scale from? I usually order online but with this sitution i would like to pick one yp from the store. Thank you
for a precise enough scale, you might want to check out a head shop. I would imagine they would carry scales with sufficient accuracy.
I frequent a few head shops mainly because of curiosity and looking at the glass (I LOVE looking at local blown glass). They always have some really nice scales and I've even seen some being cheaper than online.
This is a great idea for OPs situation. I got my first scale from a head shop. I still use it and actually prefer it over the (more popular) lb-501. The AWS LB-501 kitchen scale is great but the thing seems HUGE compared to my head shop scale. Like all other things I've bought related to vaping, I had to try a few to see what I like best. I prefer flat smallish scales with a lighted display screen. Head shops usually carry a few different models to pick from.
I'd check kitchen/jewelry supply stores before head shops. Price markup probably won't be as bad.
Guns and ammunition shops should have scales too, I'd think, because you'd use them to measure gunpowder.
A touch of advice on these, I got a 15 quid one from Amazon that measures down to 0.01 like most of the head shop scales but 2 things to watch out for.
If I dump a load of flavour in, sure, it measures XX.YYg, presumably accurately, but if i add one drop, then another, then another.... to get to a specific weight it pops up .04 or 0.something more once per X drops rather than each time a drop goes in, sometimes not changing at all for several drops so if you're just below the weight you want (i.e. exactly the time you'll be dripping that way so happens a lot), you can find yourself with a dilemma about whether to call it about right or keep going until it changes and is definitely too much.
You can estimate weight per drop for the final few to ameliorate this but with the whole idea to not be mixing by drop, it's annoying.
No way to test that without opening it, and not critical if you're not mixing commercially, but worth knowing about.
The other thing is the timeout of the backlight and for when it turns off completely, this can be annyoying, by the time you find, shake and open next flavour bottle, the backlight can go out so you have to look at a funny angle or press the scale to wake it up. Not handy if you have an open bottle in one hand, a loaded pipette in the other and have to use your third hand to dip the scale to wake the display up and increase the risk of knocking over the container you're dripping into.
Worse, if you faff about for long enough it turns off and forgets the weight since the last TARE/zero.
It's worse if you have flavour bottles that you need to use a pipette with of course. I got a load of 10ml bottles and part-transferred those of my bigger bottle flavors that come without their own drippable caps to make this easier and not have to wash/discard a bunch of pipettes each time and don't waste the flavouring left in the pipette.
It also means my main stash of flavours can live somewhere dark and cold with my steeping juices rather than on my shelf where I can find them easily.
I pre-find and pre-shake each flavour before starting to mix these days, which helps.
Neither are killers, just annoying and worth bearing in mind.
Exactly the issue I have, Single drops don't register well on my set of scales. Granted I have a cheap set of pocket scales at the moment so I'm sure that doesn't help.
Odd isn't it, I try to dip the scale thinking it might take a certain change in mass to re-calculate/re-measure; I've no idea how these things convert mass into data, but it always goes back to where it was.
Fair enough, it was the cheapest one on Amazon that got decent reviews, under 15 sterling, maybe a pricier one might be better but it seems a shame to retire this one when it generally works OK.
I saw some at harbor freight
Terrible idea.
Sure it’s harbor freight, but that’s the only store I can think of that carries them.
Definitely head shop. For one that reads down to .01 you may have to go online tho.
Not really.
Drug dealers tend to get scales there too, and prefer triple digits.
I just know several years back I had trouble sourcing the more accurate ones locally. I assumed they were geared more towards time bags.