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TSkotmj
post May 3 2009, 08:58 PM, updated 17y ago

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Those at Fitness Concept are expensive and pathetic! They have many models, but all are from the same manufacturer (so as to have a high purchasing volume, thus lower purchasing price and administrative complexity). I'd press on them, but the needle moves jerkily, and reproducibility is bad. The digital ones are mounted on the same "chassis" as the manual ones, and I don't imagine them to be better. Besides, they're out of my budget. I think the shit there has a precision of +/- 1.5 kg.

Ikea has one for a mere RM 25. I happened to have a half-finished bottle of mineral water with me (about 300g). I gently placed it on the scale, and the needle budged a tad. I gently removed the bottle ... and the needle returned to it's starting point. I repeated that. Same thing. Great reproducibility! Great sensitivity! Then I put the bottle at different points on the scale -- at the center, at the edges, etc. -- perfect reproducibility at very low ranges over the entire measuring surface.

But, and this is a big but: The smallest gradation represents 1 kg! 10 kg is represented on little more than 1 cm of scale! For someone like me a gain of 0.5 kg is cause for jubilation! Months of gorging on unearthly amounts of food, hours of f*rking intense exercise at near 90% RM three times a week at 7 a.m., two litres of full-cream milk a day (to the wonderment of everyone in the office) ... all that compressed into 1 cm of scale.

Surely, there is a better scale out there. Please recommend me one.
TSkotmj
post May 3 2009, 09:09 PM

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I intend to weigh myself in the nude right after the first pee of the day. Can't do that anywhere else but at home.
TSkotmj
post May 4 2009, 07:49 PM

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Hey, thanks for pointing out to me this seller. I think I've found the ideal scale.

 

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