Most helpful customer reviews
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Great Yarn Scale
By Dave
The easiest way to evenly divide skeins of yarn is with a digital scale. This one works perfectly. It's small and easy to store with the rest of your knitting supplies. The actual scale surface is very small so you need to place a bowl on it to hold the yarn. But the scale also has a "tare" button that zeros out the scale with the bowl on it so you get the weight of the yarn only.
This is a great little gadget and the price is perfect.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Scale needs 500 g weight to callibrate
By Cal Page
The scale itself worked fine until I tried to calibrate it with a 50g weight I had purchased for this task. The trouble was, the scale thought that was 500 grams, so now the readings were way off. Fortunately, I could calibrate the scale using a pile of quarters to estimate the 500g weight, and after every calibration, I'd weight the 50g weight. If it was low, I'd recalibrate using less quarters. Eventuality, 50g showed 50g on the scale.
So, the moral of the story is to order the 500g weight up front so you can do the calibration in one step. The scale doesn't let you select your calibration weight, so you must use the 500g one.
The scale has a nice tare feature. You put your dish on the scale, then press tare. This resets the scale to show 0 grams. Then, whatever you add to the plate will be measured because the scale has already done the subtraction for the weight of the dish.
As for precision, sometimes the 500g weight shows up at 500.1 grams or the 50g weight will show up as 49.9. So, the scale seems accurate to +- 0.1 grams.
I use the scale for compounding vitamins and if I am not careful, the scale will think I'm done and shut itself off with the auto-off feature. So, I have to turn it back on again and resume the process.
Other than that, it works ok. I would have preferred a balance beam scale (without batteries), like from science class, but again, this scale lets me get the job done with a minimum of inconvenience (and at a low price).
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Owned one for over 3 years
By Raval Seojattan
I bought this exact scale on eBay back in 2008. I think I payed $14.99. I really like this scale, I've had other scales before it but they all suffered from the digits malfunctioning. I use mine almost everyday to measure toner powder.
The only problem I ever had with this scale is, the lock on the battery door didn't sit right and it eventually broke but I can't remember if it was my fault or not. With with two strips of 1/2" office clear tape the door sat well. The tape never came loose even after being there for 2 years.
At least once a week for 3 years I would spill toner on this scale and it never effected it.
Based on my experience I don't think you can find a better scale under $40.00. I also own other sales some cost $100 but I respect this little scale the most.
See all 98 customer reviews...
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
For anyone needing to take a dependable scale on the go, the AMW Series fits the bill. Durable and compact, the digital pocket scale weighs items up to 1000 grams in 0.1 gram increments. It has an easy-to-read, backlit LCD display and an intuitive, flip-open lid to protect the smooth, stainless-steel weighing surface. The scale is powered by 2 AAA batteries, a set of which comes included, and is backed by a 10-year warranty.
