View Full Version : Home Made Scale
da haze meister
02-03-2006, 10:51 PM
i was wondering if there was an easy way to make a scale from house hold objects, like not a digital one but something like the one with two plates and a fulcrum in the middle... something like that, any way i could measure by grams. a paper clip is a gram right?
benagain
02-03-2006, 11:01 PM
I've never tried making one, but I found this page on the net:
http://www.wecreate4u.net/dwilliams/scale/scale.html
Whos Carl
02-03-2006, 11:35 PM
Just buy a set of scales on ebay. Or try the kitchen for food scales.
3 Sheets To The Wind
02-03-2006, 11:38 PM
Use someone's sig.
"In our area bus passes weigh about 1 gram, maybe you could hold that in one hand and a gram in the other to weigh it out"
Like wtf? lol :p
Whos Carl
02-03-2006, 11:39 PM
It is near impossible to use anything else other than real scales. I wish people would stop asking the same question.
3 Sheets To The Wind
02-03-2006, 11:47 PM
It is near impossible to use anything else other than real scales. I wish people would stop asking the same question.
You're exaclty right... if it's worth weighing, it's worth weighing properly.
da haze meister
02-03-2006, 11:56 PM
well im 15 so i cant buy a real scale without setting off suspicion by my parents. i did find something though... http://www.science-projects.com/Scales.htm
3 Sheets To The Wind
02-04-2006, 12:17 AM
well im 15 so i cant buy a real scale without setting off suspicion by my parents. i did find something though... http://www.science-projects.com/Scales.htm
Small electronic scales are more inconspicuous than a homemade beasty scale lol :p
benagain
02-04-2006, 12:23 AM
you can get hand scales at mail stores for like a buck also. they're small and fit into any pocket.
jay42
02-04-2006, 12:27 AM
/\/\ U mean like a UPS store?
stangle12
02-04-2006, 12:43 AM
heres what you do. you need a decent ruler, and something that can be used as a fulcrom (round chapstick container works)
next, the hardest part. is finding something that weighs a gram. you want it to be small...not spread out like a buss pass. Put the folcrum at 6in (whatever hte exact center is, some rulers go past 12"...or may be metric) when using it to weigh something, make sure you note where on the ruler you place the weed/counterweight. you wana keep them at oposit marks. so if you put the nugget at 1" make sure you put the counter weight at 11". you have to test-ballance the ruler yoruself, but if it balances..you got it weighed out.
stangle12
02-04-2006, 12:52 AM
if anything, it'l get the job done until you can eye out a gram.
Skink
02-04-2006, 01:24 AM
a string a pencil and 2 baggies... get stuff weighed at a supermarket or PO,,, tie the string in the center of the pencil balance it and put a dab of super glue to hold it there... poke holes in the baggies and hang them on the ends,make a mark the same distance in on both side and hang the baggies equal,remove the eraser and metal also...
Skink
pabloescobar209
02-04-2006, 01:59 AM
i was wondering if there was an easy way to make a scale from house hold objects, like not a digital one but something like the one with two plates and a fulcrum in the middle... something like that, any way i could measure by grams. a paper clip is a gram right?
omg just buy a damn scale there about 30 bucks
da haze meister
02-04-2006, 02:18 AM
i already fuckin went over this i cant buy a fucking scale ok man cause i am 15 and live with my parents jesus man learn to fuckin read.
You could go to like a science store and by a mechanical balance. We use them in science class all the time to make sure our measurements are correct. Oh and they are in grams.
pabloescobar209
02-04-2006, 03:51 AM
i already fuckin went over this i cant buy a fucking scale ok man cause i am 15 and live with my parents jesus man learn to fuckin read.
then have fun getting ripped off until you're 18... only children have this problem BTW you should get you're mommys permission before posting on this site
Up In Smoke 420
02-04-2006, 04:02 AM
Go to Target and get a food scale there about 25-40 bucks they weigh in grams. To bad there kind of big.
da haze meister
02-04-2006, 01:46 PM
then have fun getting ripped off until you're 18... only children have this problem BTW you should get you're mommys permission before posting on this site
dude i was asking if there was a way to make a home made scale, not buy one. seriously man if you dont got something productive to say:
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
stangle12
02-04-2006, 09:25 PM
do the ruler thing man. im tellin you
dopefiend
02-04-2006, 10:59 PM
you can get hand scales at mail stores for like a buck also. they're small and fit into any pocket.
whats a mail store? like the post office?:confused:
pabloescobar209
02-04-2006, 11:16 PM
for what you want to weigh theres no answer besides a digi... i mean most experienced smokers can eye up and 1/8 or a 1/4, so the whole point of a digi is so its really 3.5 or really 7 and not 3.1 and 6.7 all these homemade scales and mail letter scales just simple aren't accurate enough to make a difference... if i knew you weighed up you bags with anything like this it would be 3.1 gram 1/8's all day, don't feel bad for people like this because first of all he doesn't care it's not his money hes only 15, and second it's not his money he's only 15 and third it's not his money he's only 15, if anything feel bad for his parents that think little mikey is spending his money wisely at the zoo...
da haze meister
02-04-2006, 11:52 PM
for what you want to weigh theres no answer besides a digi... i mean most experienced smokers can eye up and 1/8 or a 1/4, so the whole point of a digi is so its really 3.5 or really 7 and not 3.1 and 6.7 all these homemade scales and mail letter scales just simple aren't accurate enough to make a difference... if i knew you weighed up you bags with anything like this it would be 3.1 gram 1/8's all day, don't feel bad for people like this because first of all he doesn't care it's not his money hes only 15, and second it's not his money he's only 15 and third it's not his money he's only 15, if anything feel bad for his parents that think little mikey is spending his money wisely at the zoo...
lol ok im gonna get a digi... can i get a 0.1 graduation grams one from the post office?
ooh BTW 200th post :rasta: :rasta: :rasta:
CrAzYpOtHeAd
02-05-2006, 12:01 AM
Why do you think just cus hes 15 its not his money? im 15 and i earn my money with a thing i call, a job.
da haze meister
02-05-2006, 12:14 AM
i just lost my other job... im looking for a new one right now, so i am kinda in a dry spot cause the rest of my money went to my turbo and intercooler lol.
Nochowderforyou
02-05-2006, 01:11 AM
Buy a pen scale. Their used for weighing small fishes, in the Fishing dept. Like, $7 man.
insanity
02-05-2006, 03:14 AM
Homemade scales are easy if you can find something that weighs a known amount of grams. A simple scale:
Nail a thumb tack to the wall and put some heavy string in the middle. On the ends of the string tie two styrofoam cups. One cup is empty and the other has 10 pennies in it. On the bottom of the tack take a banner sheet and place it there. Where the bottom of the empty penny cup is make a mark, and that will be 0 grams. Then take a penny and place it in the empty cup and make a mark, and that will be 2.5 grams. One more penny would be 5 grams. Continue this process untill you reach 10 pennies in each cup. The limit of this scale is 25 grams and it won't be accurate (unless you're good at measurement), but it should work.
The things you think of when you're blazed.
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.5 Copyright © 2025 vBulletin Solutions Inc. All rights reserved.