I plan on buying a few lengths of chain at Home Pro to use as small weights on my dumbbells (which is much cheaper than the retail options for "micro plates"). The trouble is weighing them. I want them to be 1/2 kg, which I think is too sensitive for those person-weighing scales outside the 7-11s to measure with decent accuracy.

Does anyone know where I might be able to get a more precise weight measurement?

Edited March 14, 201610 yr by Hal65

Buy a kitchen scales either analog or digital, both inexpensive, and it will serves you on both

purposes in food wheighing and

your exercise equipment....

Just take them to the market and get a vendor to drop them on their scale for you.

Yup ^^^. Even the cheapest of kitchen scales will give you enough accuracy for your purposes.

If you are serious about down to microns...try a gold shop scales - if they think you are nuts and wont let you, try a golf fitting shop. They weigh and test clubs down to the gramme (English spelling)

Every food scale at the supermarkets will be precise enough and good for the 1/2kg range.

Don't ask me how the staff will react if you put a metal chain on the scale instead of a sack of potatoes

Sometimes the scales are unattended

For a DIY thread :

"Build" / hang a simple beam balance.

Doesn't need more than some metal bar/rod and string.

Do you have a measuring jug by chance?

Fill 1/2 l of water in a thin plastic bag.

If not buy a 1/2l bottle of cheap water.

Hang it on your beam balance.

Edited March 15, 201610 yr by KhunBENQ

In most fresh market there'll be a 'government' scale chained to a post somewhere, idea is that you can check your purchase to see that the vendor hasn't ripped you off by using a crooked scale in their stall

Go to Hardware house. They have a scale for weighing bolts and i am sure they sell chain or something else you can use. If you need better resolution on accuracy, put 10x the amount on the scale and divide it up. Otherwise just thread on a another wing nut onto your dumbell or something similar. PM me is you want, I have some weights for sale. Some are 1.25 kg.

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Some stationary/office supply shops also sell inexpensive digital scales for those wishing to weigh parcels etc. before posting.

As an alternative to using chain, Thai Watsadu sells pieces of steel sheet around 3mm thick in sizes ranging from around 2 sq.in. to 12 sq.in., either square or circular and the price seems to be 7 baht per piece regardless of the size. A 12 sq.in. square weighs the best part of 2 kg.

I happened to take a pic to show a friend with a similar requirement when I was there last week: