Digital Scales

Stephen,

Bathroom scales come sometimes with a remote reading - though you may have to fiddle to to give a constant display as they turn off after a while.

Failing that you are into load cells and a whetstone bridge with external display.

AWEM

Where would you get bathroom scales to do the job? All the domestic ones that I have seen only go to around 20 stone - 150kg is around 24 stone.

A quick Google came up with

Cheers Tim

Neil Ellwood quite correctly comments .......

Neil, you raise a good point, perhaps we should all invest in the bathroom scale industry. With all the obesity about the standard 20 stone jobbie is probably getting outdated. There is going to be a whole new generation of up-rated bathroom scales.

Mike

Try:-

-- Regards,

John Stevenson Nottingham, England.

I got some from Argos a year or two back to weigh my 47 Kg propane cylinders that I use on my furnace, but took them back when I found the display blanked after a time out period.

AWEM

Hi, thanks for the idea, but have tried the bathroom scales approach and run into problems such as they turn themselves off. I really need to monitor the weight of something over time. Ideally I am looking for something like this

Stephen

And how much are they?

What about

Cheers Tim

About £1000 :-) Hence why I am investigating other solutions!

Humm, cheaper...

Thanks,

Stephen

Did you really need digital - the old spring ones would probably be accurate enough for most purposes although you would need to re-zero them regularly.

Just bought some parcel scales from

I'm sure there were some listed around the 50 or 60 quid mark, not exactly cheap, maybe a telephone call might lead some part exchange stock?

Lionel

Nice, they'll do nicely!

Thanks

Stephen.

Your could use two, three or four!

Dave.