Re: [london.food] Scales

[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2006/3/7]

From: Roger Burton West
Subject: Re: [london.food] Scales
Date: 14:35 on 07 Mar 2006
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:30:05PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:

>Ooh, good call.  The ability to make cake on the moon is not something
>I'd considered in the past, but this is definitely a win for old
>technology!

I've used spring-scales, which work more or less - but when they start
to go wrong (which they certainly used to quite frequently) you have no
way of knowing about it. If a balance goes wrong, it won't balance when
it's empty, or there's a chunk missing from one of the balance masses.

>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:58:26PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>> Try charity and antique stores.  I'm sure you could pick up some metric 
>> weights to replace the archaic measures.

I'm actually keeping an eye out for SI masses but I haven't yet found
any at a sensible price. Nor have I particularly noticed the lack.

R

There's stuff above here

Generated at 00:00 on 11 Mar 2006 by mariachi 0.41