Boyd Allen's Magnifying Glass Tip for Beam Scales

[Laurie]

Re today's (27th December) tip in the Daily Bulletin (which I think is a great idea), here is another that is in the same vein, but a little more high-tech from Allen Edwards of Hastings, England who has the user name of 1066 on this forum, and is the man who designed and makes the clever Targetmaster Trickler device.

Allen puts a small bracket on his 'tweaked' beam scales, a wire pointer tip on the business end of the beam, and attaches a tiny mini-cam to the bracket. It is directly in front of the pointy end of the beam, no parallax issues, and is static (unlike the human operator's eye trying to judge when the beam pointer is central on the scale markings from above and to one side). Plug it into tablet, laptop or whatever and you get a 100x representation of the beam / scale - easy to see when it is spot on.

 

[Joe Salt]

Looks like a great Idea, but with my eyes I need the big digital numbers.

Joe Salt

 

[jrb572]

Here is a setup if you have a smart phone. I use the app Mag Pro light.

 

[jpx2rk]

I bought a lenovo tab 3 tablet at wally world for $69, and with the 10" screen, works great for my old eyes.

 

[racesnake]

I bought a lenovo tab 3 tablet at wally world for $69, and with the 10" screen, works great for my old eyes.

What app are you using?

 

[KWeigel]

Were do you find a pointer like that?

 

[SheepDog]

The pointer is added to the scale and the beam is rebalanced (calibrated) to the new weight.
It is critical to get the calibration right or your scale will be off.

 

[deadwooddick]

Here is a setup if you have a smart phone. I use the app Mag Pro light.

Googled Mag Pro light… loads fishin' reels

 

[jrb572]

Sorry it's mag light pro. Maybe it's an apple only app. That I am not sure of.

 

[6MMsteve]

I use a mag glass, my scale sits on a pc of maple wood 5 inches high on the bench almost at eye level when sitting, I calibrate with a sierra bullet picked from 10 bullets weighed, it lays in a vile next to my scale also have lab certified wts in 4 diff wts when I calibrate I use 6 different types of wt that way I'm close, because I will screw up it has happened before and it will happen again

 

[Hal]

I need to get a set up like that for my scale.

Hal

 

[jpx2rk]

What app are you using?

No app, I just use the "camera" function but don't take pic's.

 

[racesnake]

Thanks jpx!