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Your cart is empty.This mechanical scale features a sturdy and high-quality metal construction, ensuring both durability and longevity. Unlike digital scales, it operates without the need for batteries, making it a convenient and eco-friendly choice. To use the scale, simply step onto the platform and allow a moment for the dial to stabilize. Once the needle comes to a stop, you can easily read your weight from the clear, easy-to-read dial. This design emphasizes simplicity and reliability, making it an excellent addition to any home.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2025
This scale is okay. I wanted an analog scale, since I have had bad luck with digital ones in terms of both accuracy and longevity. I thought, why not go back to the old fashioned kind we used to have in the bathroom when I was young?Sadly, this is nothing like that old scale. That one was a heavy, rusty old beast (rusty on the bottom, anyway) that my grandparents bought in the '70s. I remember the sound it used to make when you tried to slide it on the bathroom floor with your foot--a resentful scraping gripe that you would dare try to shift it. When we moved, it left a faint rusty stain on the tile in the shape of its outline. Yet, that old scale was as accurate as they come. When you stood on it, the dial would spin confidently into position just as smoothly as a pendulum, and if you stepped off and got back on right away, it always landed in exactly the same place. I don't know what happened to it all these years later, but I would guess it might be sitting in a landfill somewhere, rusting to bits, yet accurately recording the weight of all the trash that collects on top of it.This scale is not like that. They are both non-digital scales, but that is where the similarity ends. The bottom is not steel, but some thin painted alloy. The dial does not spin with confidence, but with jerkiness. It's shifty all the way. You can't trust it. If you step off and get back on, it will tell you a different story than it told you two seconds ago. The dial gets stuck, and you feel like you need to shake it to somehow bounce it into accuracy. But that's a pipedream, since accuracy isn't coming. My old scale was engineered for precision. This one was was hastily assembled out of cheap parts based on photocopies of better scales that have come before. I find myself weighing multiple times and trying to take the average.Sure, you could buy this scale, or another one like it. It would be cheap, it would get to you in two days or less, and maybe it doesn't matter in the end how much you weigh, anyway. But I want my old scale back. I want a lot of things back. Don't you?
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2025
When I first saw how small this scale was, I thought it was a joke. I thought that there was no way I was going to be able to step on it and have it accurately weigh me. But to my pleasant surprise not only did I fit on the scale, but it was completely accurate too. We have a narrow galley bathroom and this fits perfectly behind the toilet for easy storage. Great product.
Scientific Baking
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2025
I use to run a proficiency program for agricultural laboratories and evaluated their accuracy. For a lab, accuracy has two components, non bias and precision.If one weighs a calibrated weight on a scale, and the scale's readings are always higher than the calibrated weight, the scale has a high bias. It is not considered accurate. If sometimes the weights are high and sometimes low, the scale is not precise. It could be considered non-biased if the average of multiple weighings matched the calibrated weight. However it is not an accurate scale due to poor precision.Unfortunately, I don't have a way to measure the bias of this scale, since I don't have a calibrated weight near my weight. I weigh 165 pounds at the doctor's office, and after calibrating the scale according to the directions this is the same weight shown on this scale. More importantly, if I step on the scale 10 times, I get consistent readings -- so my scale is precise.I like that it is a mechanical scale, so no batteries are needed.While it is made in China, the instructions were written in the USA. The distributor is in New Mexico, with a street address, email address, and a toll free telephone number. It even has a limited 5 year warranty. At the time of this review, the price is $12.74. I think scales like this were around $30.00 forty or fifty years ago. I don't know how this can be made at that price, shipped over from China, and then shipped to my house.The instructions are simple and clearly written -- there even is a small card with instructions. Basically, put it on a flat and even surface that is not carpeted. Step on it and allow the reading to come to zero. Step off and allow the reading to come to zero. Repeat this three times. Then use the knob on the bottom of the scale to set it to zero. Keep the scale in the same location. If you move the scale, repeat the calibration steps described above.
Mickster
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2025
Where do I begin. Arrived not collaborated to 0 so, luckily there was a one page illustration/instruction page showing where to adjust. The scale is small and would not be suitable for any person with above average size feet (men's size 10 feet would just have some of the toes and part of heel over the scale). I don't know which is off, but there is an 8 lb. difference between this scale and my digital one. The increments that the numbers are displayed is 20 (0,20, 40, 60, etc.) so I have to squint and try to figure out exactly on what line the arrow is pointing to. I thought this dial scale would be better than the digital one because the battery dies so quickly in the digital one, but unfortunately this one just isn't for my household.
zack
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2025
5lbs off accuracy, even with careful calibration by instructions method
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2025
It's old school and what I wanted.
Veronica Del Valle
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2025
Shows me as weighing 8lbs less than the doctor's office but like... Who is gonna complain about that really
Sean X
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025
Not accurate at lower weight.
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