In Search of Mechanical Scales

Nope. It's actually kinda rare to find a lighted cyclometer. In regular use, one finds that they rarely look at it unless they are attempting to obey a speed limit or are training for a particular cadence, so the urge to look at it at night rapidly decreases. It becomes merely a collector of statistics. It's good at the end of the day to be able to look at it and know how long you were rolling, how many miles you've crossed, what your top speed was, and what your average speed was.

But it does have a clock function, so it's always running - like a watch. Perhaps it's an inefficient watch. I bought it as new-old-stock, and it arrived with dead batteries installed, and couldn't have been on the shelf more than 2 years. It's a Sigma BC-1400 fwiw. I hear cateye cyclometers are better.

The point i was getting to, theoretically there should be no drain on the batteries in a digital scale when it's turned off.

Okay, a clock would explain it. I've been thinking that LR44s might not be quite the con that I made them out to be. I have cameras that use them and I don't replace them nearly as often as batteries for other electronic devices with lights, and now that you mention it, clocks.

Thanks!

Because of it's lifetime/30-year warranty, low weight, low cost, and lid covering the buttons which will prevent accidental pressing by other items in the suitcase/carry-on bag, I decided to get a My Weigh 200-Z from rightonscales.com. It took me awhile to decide since a digital scale is not what I set out to get in the first place.

The first thing I plan to do after it arrives, is check the weight of the various teas I've been measuring into my teapot. That should be fun :).

My Weigh makess a good scale, I have their 7001 as a kitchen scale, and I think it is a great all-purpose scale. Electronic may not have been your first choice but mechanical scales are quite bulky.You did well.

And please post the results; yes, I know that what I think is a teaspoon isn't the same as what others do, but this would still be interesting. Hmmm.. scale... another tea toy. Sigh...

Will do.

I'm not comprehending why your thoughts of a tsp. would be different from someone else's since it's a standard unit of measure. I was taught to fill the measuring spoon then use the flat edge of a knife to scrape off whatever's above the top edge. With tea, I just eyeball it because, while I may be particular, I'm not *that* particular.

I've gone years and years w/o a scale. It's just that I'm tired of voluminous leaves falling out of my measuring spoon which is one of those sliding adjustable ones that go up to a Tbl. I plan to continue to use it for those teas that aren't escapists.

I was taught the same, and do exactly that when baking. However, since I have very few CTC teas (see how quickly I'm learning?!) the tea leaves don't fit in a spoon nicely and neatly, and the knife would guarantee that none were left. So, your eyeballing and my eyeballing are definitely going to be different. :)

A regular measuring spoon is even less helpful - they all try to escape!

Ah, yes, I see and I must agree.

Maybe you should get a scale!

Sigh... I know. I saved all the posts, just in case...