[access-uk] Re: cobolt scales and other talking gadgets
- From: "Janet Tuggey" <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:59:44 -0000
Hi Mark and others
I was looking on Amazon recently and they seem to be selling a wide range of
talking gadgets now, such as kitchen and bathroom scales and talking
clocks/watches.
My bathroom scales are talking ones and they are made by a company called
Hanson, I bought them from Argos a few years ago and they seem pretty
accurate, they'll measure in quarter pounds (I don't really bother with
metric weights, unless it says so in recipes).
I know that Lakeland did recently sell a set of talking kitchen scales, but
not sure if they still have them. But if you go onto the Amazon website and
put the word "talking" in the search box, you'll be surprised at just what
comes up.
Janet & Wheat, the silly Shepherd cross
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mark Faben
Sent: 13 November 2010 13:41
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: cobolt scales
I also have a pair of the cobalt kitchen scales, fairly old now, but with
the round metal section the bowl sits on and a switch on the side with
three positions, for metric, imperial and off, plus the reset button on the
front. I also don't find them particularly accurate, I mainly use them for
weighing ingrediants for bread or cake baking.
Also, I have a very recent set of personal scales for weighing myself, from
cobalt, and these don't seem very accurate at all, unless my weight really
is four or more pounds differnt from one day to the next... But when there
is so little choice with where we can purchase such goods from the companys
concerned really don't seem overly concerned with making decent stuff as
we'll be forced to buy whatever they offer even if it isn't particularly
good; For kitchen scales I'm seriously thinking about going back to an old
fashioned style balance set, where you just place the weights on one side
and balance it on the other with the ingrediants being measured; I was
guessing I could buy a set of these off of the high street, and then braille
up the individual weights myself (with sighted assistance to identify the
weight of each weight).
Mark
On 13/11/2010, william lomas <lomaswilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i got them last year. i have the switch but no volume control on mine
>
> On Nov 13, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Janet Tuggey wrote:
>
>> Hi, I've got an old pair of kitchen scales, can't remember if they're
>> from RNIB or Cobolt (I think Cobolt) and they seem to work OK, they
>> sometimes go up a couple of grams but certainly nowhere near as much
>> as a whole ounce (or around 28g), which is a huge difference. I
>> think these are about 9 or 10 years old, they have the rectangular
>> base that you just rest the bowl on.
>> I've seen the newer version which I think has a round surface that
>> fits the bowl, don't like it so much. How old are your kitchen
>> scales?
>>
>> Lucky dog, they think they're getting more food. Must admit I've
>> never weighed out my dog's food, just used the tin that I've had for
>> about 22 years.
>>
>> Sorry I can't be of more help, I've been very happy with my talking
>> kitchen scales.
>>
>>
>> Janet & Wheat, the silly Shepherd cross -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of william lomas
>> Sent: 13 November 2010 07:19
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] cobolt scales
>>
>> hi all
>>
>>
>> Has anyone noticed problems with the cobolt kitchen scales?
>> When I weigh my dogs food out it says one measurement when tip the
>> dry food in to the bowl then 3 seconds later it goes up an ounce or a
>> half ounce.
>> It
>> rediculous I am paying for accuracy not 2 different readings
>>
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