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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
We are pleased to announce that ScalesOnline has now teamed up with the ever popular Homedics Group which now adds a vast range of Salter Scales to our ever increasing catalogue.
Salter have long been established as a trusted manufacturer of both Home and Industrial Weighing applications, and we are proud to be able to bring this level of trust to our customers as we know we can continue on in this tradition.
As always if you would like to discuss your weighing requirements please feel free to call us on 0845 643 0448 or visit us at ScalesOnline.co.uk
Tags: bathroom, homedics, kitchen, salter, scales, weigh
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
The saga over the ‘overweight’ boxers at the Commonwealth Games earlier this week shows just how important proper calibration is when you’re trying to weigh anything accurately. In Delhi earlier this week, the boxing weigh-in was postponed by a day after a row over whether the reported weights were accurate or not. The Competition Manager, Lenni Gama, had originally claimed that the scales had been calibrated correctly, but even after a work-out and a sauna, the weights of the boxers were still higher than the teams’ own assessments of their boxers’ weights. Only when someone hit on the idea of weighing a known 50 kg weight (borrowed from the weightlifting team, maybe?) was the mystery unravelled – the 50 kg weight weighed in at a rather flabby 51.4 kg.
Buying your scales from a reputable supplier should ensure that your scales arrive properly calibrated so you don’t have these problems and that the scales remain accurate throughout their working life. Proper maintenance and ensuring the weighing device is not used on an uneven surface or subjected to wild swings in temperature and humidity (unless it’s designed for them) will also help.
Organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games will no doubt be keen to learn from the Delhi weigh-in debacle and avoid a similar situation. And you can be sure the competitors and teams will be paying close attention to any discrepancies they see, too. When athletes have trained hard for years for their brief moment of glory, no-one wants to see them robbed of it by a technicality that can be so easily avoided by buying good quality, reliable weighing equipment.
Tags: commonwealth, games, Medical Scales, scales, weigh
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
 Using an industrial scale in a warehouse environment can reap many rewards, most significantly a drop in man hour and labour time. Whilst you may sometimes agree that industrial scales can be large, cumbersome and take up valuable warehouse space you can, these days, buy weighing scales that are light enough to be stored away when not in use and yet strong enough to withstand every day usage of 2 tonne pallets or more.
Beam scales are a good option to consider when space is limited. These are often made from two pieces of durable U-section steel and are light enough to be picked up and stored away when not needed. A cable will often connect the two beams together follewed by a second cable to take the signal from the beams to the weighing indicator. The indicators for such weighing equipment would more than likely be mains powered meaning you would need to use the beam scale somewhere near a mains socket, however battery powered indicators would give you the freedom of being able to use the scales anywhere and offer you the best in portability. Beam scales would also offer you the freedom of being able to weigh pretty much any size pallet or box by simply adjusting the distance between the beams. This is especially handy if you have many different size items to weigh.
For a more permanant fixture you may consider a larger industrial platform scale. These are commonly found to be around 1.2 metres square but can be produced to any size required. When pit-mounted, these scales would be able to offer you the advantage of simply driving your pallet onto the platform with a pallet truck or fork truck for complete ease of use.
For the ultimate amount of portability in a warehouse or industrial application, you could consider a pallet truck scale. These handy pieces of equipment look and act like a pallet truck but with the added benefit of a weighing scale being built into the chassis, therefore allowing you to take the scales to the weight rather than the weight to the scales, something which could save you hundreds of man hours.
We hope this article is of some use to you, but as always please feel free to call us or visit www.scalesonline.co.uk for further information if and when you need it.
Tags: beams, industrial, pallet truck, pitmounted, platform, scales, shipping, warehouse
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
 When counting parts or pieces by hand you will often find that it can be a tiresome and inaccurate job by anyones standards. Imagine then having the luxury available to you to simply tell a scale what each individual piece weighs and then it doing the counting for you. This luxury need not be expensive with a vast range of recently launched counting scales onto the market.
Counting scales can come in all different shapes and sizes, but typically are large enough to fit on a desk and have three displays on the front. Each individual display tells you something different, but each add up to provide you with the same time and cost saving information. You will normally have one display telling you the overall weight, one telling you the piece weight and one telling you the quantity counted.
Most counting scales will give you the facility to tell the scale how much each individual item weighs as well as the often preferred method of adding a sample quantity to the platform. The latter simply requires you to put, for instance, ten items on the scale followed by a key press to tell the scale that there are ten items present. The scale will then do the maths necessary to work out how much each individual item weighs and will proceed to count accurately for you. As with any mathematics involved, the higher the sample quantity the more accurate the piece weight will be and therefore the more accurate your counting will be.
In some instances the counting scale will have a second scale input. This allows you to attach, as an example, an industrial weigh beam scale. With the second scale attached you can switch between scale 1 or scale 2 on the display and have parts counting abilities on either scale. This can be especially useful when some items you are counting need finer accuracy and lower capacity which you would use the desk mounted scale for, or switch to the larger beam scale for counting heavier items on pallets.
We hope this article is of some use to you, but as always please feel free to call us or visit www.scalesonline.co.uk for further information if and when you need it.
Tags: count, counting, piece, platform, scales, weigh, weight
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Weighing items for shipping and receiving requires both an accurate scale and one robust enough for everyday usage. Parcel shipping scales often come in a small form factor that can be used on a desk or bench. Capacities can vary, but more often than not a 30Kg capacity would be more than adequate for most people as this is the limit of what one person can safely lift onto a bench platform and is often the limit of most carriers on a per item basis.
An important factor when considering bench scales is the size of the platform. Is the platform big enough for what you need to weigh? Is it small enough so it doesnt obstruct your other work duties? Will you be able to see the display when you are weighing your items? More modern day scales come with the ability to detach the facia from the weighing base and therefore allow you to see the display even when weighing over sized items. Also, will the scale be suitable in a plastic housing, or would a stainless steel platform be better?
Finally, you may need to consider whether scale needs to be battery operated or mains powered. A mains powered scale is often the most reliable as you never need to worry about batteries running out and finding out you can not use your scale until the batteries are replaced, however for convenience sake a battery powered scale can also have its benefits such as no trailing wires, or using up already limited plug sockets.
These are just a few points to consider when buying a scale for your office/workshop environment. If you would like any further advise or assistance when purchasing a scale, please feel free to call us or visit www.scalesonline.co.uk.
Tags: bench, office, platform, scales, shipping, weigh
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Buying a scale can be a complicated task as there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of different type scales out on the market today. With a little bit of help and assistance it neednt be too difficult though.
The first thing you need to do is decide what items or products your scale is going to be weighing. This involves knowing roughly what your heaviest item is going to be, combined with how small the divisions you need the scale to go up in. You will also need to know how large the item is that you are going to be weighing.
With this information to hand you can then begin looking at the various different types of scale out there.
One common misconception is that you can have a single scale for weighing absolutely anything. This, quite simply, is incorrect as we could never recommend using a pallet scale to weigh letters, or vice versa.
Typically a scale weighs to 3000 divisions. For instance a 3000 gram scale would go up in 1 gram increments, a 6000 gram scale would weigh in 2 gram increments, a 3000Kg scale would weigh in 1Kg increments. This certainly applies to most scales but isnt a rule for all. As an example, the Ultra75 weighs up to 34Kgs but in as small an increment as 5 grams. This is because it has been designed to cover as many applications as possible giving it a broader user base and therefore making it less expensive.
Scales that are to be used in shops where you will be selling by weight need to be trade approved. An example of this is when a sweet shop owner sells 100 grams of sweets to his customers. Because you are declaring that there is a certain amount of product on that scale then you need to prove that it is accurate to a certain standard. These would normally be sold as Trade Approved, Weights & Measures Approved or Class III Approved. These all mean the same thing, and that is that they conform to a standard which says that they are accurate enough to be selling on. Medical scales, generally used in surgeries or hospitals, also need to be Class III approved.
We hope this article was of some use to you and assists you in being able to choose the right scale for you. However we are always available for more information or advice. Please feel free to visit http://www.scalesonline.co.uk for the latest information and offerings.
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