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best digital scale for the $
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 935994" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>The company I used to work for made balance weights for testing gas turbine engines, and balancing turbine wheel sets. Often at odd ball weights. For years we used Ohaus 304 scales, while the lab inspection used a $10K digital scale. In the tool room where we cut them out of certified bars of brass, the fellows used two scales side by side in Plexiglas boxes built for them. tolerances were usually in the 1/10th grain area, but sometimes just a 1/10th window depending on the application. The scales sat atop a granite surface plate that was level. The guys in instrument repair always had two or three of these scales being worked on (we probably owned twenty). I brought a new Pact scale in one day to see how it compared, and it was clearing better than the 304's in every way. Later I brought in a second identical one, and it was the same. So I brought in the first scale to compare the two with the master that everything was checked off of in the end. (we used three different scales to check to each other, plus we had a $10K scale in the tool room). The results were the same. Every bob weight we made went thru two of these scales, and trust me they were extremely picky about the weights. Nothing is much more exciting then a gas turbine wheel exploding! We later converted over to electronic scales in the tool room (Pact to be exact). Last time I saw the 304's, they were headed to the dumpster.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 935994, member: 25383"] The company I used to work for made balance weights for testing gas turbine engines, and balancing turbine wheel sets. Often at odd ball weights. For years we used Ohaus 304 scales, while the lab inspection used a $10K digital scale. In the tool room where we cut them out of certified bars of brass, the fellows used two scales side by side in Plexiglas boxes built for them. tolerances were usually in the 1/10th grain area, but sometimes just a 1/10th window depending on the application. The scales sat atop a granite surface plate that was level. The guys in instrument repair always had two or three of these scales being worked on (we probably owned twenty). I brought a new Pact scale in one day to see how it compared, and it was clearing better than the 304's in every way. Later I brought in a second identical one, and it was the same. So I brought in the first scale to compare the two with the master that everything was checked off of in the end. (we used three different scales to check to each other, plus we had a $10K scale in the tool room). The results were the same. Every bob weight we made went thru two of these scales, and trust me they were extremely picky about the weights. Nothing is much more exciting then a gas turbine wheel exploding! We later converted over to electronic scales in the tool room (Pact to be exact). Last time I saw the 304's, they were headed to the dumpster. gary [/QUOTE]
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