[pure-silver] Re: Triple Beam Balance
- From: "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:26:07 +0100
Quoting "Koch, Gerald" <gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I wish I had your problem! The knife edges on my balance are 40 years
> old and it doesn't swing for very long now.
I'd just go hunting for a good NON electronic analytical scale. They were
well designed and made to last milenia (saphire stones) and have long been
doomed to the junk heap due to their minimal but not Zeitgeist minimal enough
demands upon the user. Since lab researchers tend to be low paid they also
tend to be less than well motivated and often of poor intellectual training
(despite many a Phd certificate) and so the labs went over in record pace to
electronic scales. These electronic scales with their tara, direct reading
digital output (no need to turn knobs or move things about looking for the
range), self-diagnostics, RS-232 serial communication or networking (allowing
integration within software) AND lower cost made them immediately attractive
to all but science dinosaurs and old school trained chemists--- who, myself
included, would hardly think of spending the day in front of a scale.
You want (need) a good scale to weigh out the little things. These tend to
be good (at least as accurate as anything currently on offer) and cheap--- junk
is (provided nobody is collecting) typically cheap.
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