UPSB v3
General Discussion / How To Weigh Your Pens :: A Tutorial
without an electronic scale!!
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Date: Sat, Jun 20 2009 22:21:15
"How can I go about weighing my mod if I don't have access to an electronic scale?"
I've asked this question a couple times here on UPSB and no one seemed to have an answer...
Well, luckily for everyone I've thought of a solution!
The Quick, Cheap and Easy Way to Weigh Your Pen Mod:
What you will need:
- A Ruler
- Tape
- A cylindrical object.. (I used a chapstick tube but anything cylindrical will work. AA batteries, Supertip barrel, etc.)
- Pennies, Nickels and Dimes
Step 1
- Tape your cylindrical object to a hard, flat surface. Make sure it cannot move or roll away.
Step 2
- Place a ruler on top of the cylindrical object so that it is balanced. Make sure the ruler is parallel to your hard surface.
Step 3
- Mark your cylindrical object where the center of the ruler lies.
This step is included so that when you take the ruler off, you will know exactly where to put it back in order to save time.
Step 4
- Tape the object you are weighing to one side of the ruler. (*Note* Using too much tape may drastically add to the weight of your object! Make sure you use as little amount of tape as possible!)
Step 5
- Gather your pennies, dimes and nickels. This is what you will use to weigh your pen.
DIMES: 2.268 Grams
PENNIES: 2.5 Grams
NICKELS: 5 Grams
- Put coins onto the other side of the ruler until the ruler is parallel with the table. When it is parallel, remove the coins and add up how much the total weight is.
Here I have used three nickels. The ruler is unbalanced, therefore the pen I am weighing weighs less than 15 grams.
In this picture I have used 2 nickels and 2 dimes. The ruler is balanced, therefore the pen weighs approximately 14.6 Grams.
ENJOY YOUR HOMEMADE SCALE!!
Let me know if you have any questions, thanks for looking.
-Xantu
*This homemade scale is meant to give approximate weight values. If you are looking to find the EXACT weight of an object, I would suggest finding enough money to purchase a digital scale. -
Date: Sat, Jun 20 2009 23:08:28
Yeah this is a pretty cheap, easy and effective way to go. =D
My electronic scale is kinda' weird and doesn't seem to read anything too light so some of my pens don't actually get weighed.
I think I'll just need to find the weight of Australia's dollar/cents.
Nice.Â
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Date: Sat, Jun 20 2009 23:32:59
I think this is a great tutorial. Kudos to you
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Date: Sat, Jun 20 2009 23:36:18
This system is bad imo. You can't always get an exact weigh with this. It's almost always going to be something heavier than this weight, but lighter than that weight.
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 00:26:42QUOTE (Xantu @ Jun 20 2009, 02:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>*This homemade scale is meant to give approximate weight values. If you are looking to find the EXACT weight of an object, I would suggest finding enough money to purchase a digital scale.
why not use other coins too?
and imo, this is only for people in america, or USA, unless canadian coins weigh the same -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 00:30:16QUOTE (RoastBeef @ Jun 20 2009, 08:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>why not use other coins too?
and imo, this is only for people in america, or USA, unless canadian coins weigh the same
someone would have to check with an electronic scale, this is a great idea, good job -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 00:40:49QUOTE (Loanshark @ Jun 20 2009, 07:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This system is bad imo. You can't always get an exact weigh with this. It's almost always going to be something heavier than this weight, but lighter than that weight.
Yeah, but this can still give a general idea of how much a pen weighs... +/- 0.25-0.50 grams? It's much more accurate than Ayatori Mod < Pen < Dr. KT and can give people a better idea of whether or not something is heavy by comparing it to the known weight of kts or something (which is like.. 17.5grams?)QUOTE (RoastBeef @ Jun 20 2009, 08:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>why not use other coins too?
and imo, this is only for people in america, or USA, unless canadian coins weigh the same
Yeah, this is for Americans only unless other people have American coins. So use these coins for Americans, and then Canadians can use their coins. Each country just has to get some established weights for their coins.
I think that this is a pretty good idea. When people ask for the weights now, people can more easily give a more accurate response.
Instead of...:
Q: How much does a MX weigh?
A: Ballsign < MX < Buster CYL
...yeah, lol, jk, that usually doesn't happen, but you get what i mean
our current method isn't very accurate; this is good
Good job on presenting this method.
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 00:46:57
very nice!
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 00:48:21
Seems like a pretty good idea, especially for people who dont have alot of mods, if any, to compare with.
However useing tape to hold the pen down is a bad idea... especially with electrical tape.
The amount you used there is probably equal to if not more than the weight of a dime....
You should either:
a) used a small looped piece of clear tape
used a tiny piece (circle) of grip to keep the mod from moving.
Eitherwise, its pretty good. -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 01:50:55
should post weight for all currency so it works globally
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 02:20:02QUOTE (RoastBeef @ Jun 21 2009, 09:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>should post weight for all currency so it works globally
That's too much.. -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 05:49:23
very nice
/request weights for australian and japanese currency -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 06:32:42QUOTE (k-ryder @ Jun 21 2009, 12:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>very nice
/request weights for australian and japanese currency
You guys should search.
Wikipedia has collections of pretty much all currency with their weights to 3 decimal places. -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 07:44:22
A very nice idea, I never though about something like that, I'll give it a shot later ^^
And for the lazy people out there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen Japanese currency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_dollar Australia currency (I only saw the 50 cent there though)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_new_sheqel Israel's currency? xD useless to almost everyone here xD -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 08:53:30
thanks stevie for wiki idea
and a fix to resonances post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Australian_dollar
^ that has all the coin weights
the yen is actually really convenient, since the 1 yen is 1g
and i never use the 1 yen coins anyway XD -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 09:59:07
Spoiler:
I hope this helps. I'm sorry if I didn't include your country, so please don't complain saying that I forgot something. Also it is plausible that I'm inaccurate on some or made a typo. So feel free to double check. So far I have 17 different currencies.
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 10:38:13
the 1 agora and 5 agorot coins are not used these days, so it won't really help putting them, but great job on the effort
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 10:52:09
excellent idea
nice
i use pen tips instead because i don't have many spare coins lying around -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 10:59:03
lol? Aussie 1c & 2c? xD i have them but they're so... dirty xD
oh good job on this idea btw =) -
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 11:36:15QUOTE (Resonance @ Jun 21 2009, 03:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>the 1 agora and 5 agorot coins are not used these days, so it won't really help putting them, but great job on the effort
Ok thx for letting me know
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 20:22:52
You can "zero" the scale by putting the tape on the ruler first, balancing it, then putting the pen and coins.
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Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 21:27:27
HEHEH Nice! I did this with a deck of cards and 1 playing card a while back, system is very crude but its something. And why not use paper clips? they are usually 1 Gram.
Anyways, dealextreme sells scales for cheap why not grab one from there? -
Date: Fri, Oct 16 2009 13:19:48
It's an interesting idea. The only problem is people use different currencies, so I guess it's hard to standardise the counterweight.
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Date: Thu, May 6 2010 03:19:07
Just wanted to bump this since it's very helpful and I've been seeing a lot of people asking how to weigh stuff.
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Date: Thu, Jun 10 2010 04:22:17
This is my way .. . I often use metal ball ..
Easy , Convenient ......... 
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Date: Thu, Jun 10 2010 04:24:11QUOTE (LNT_Phat @ Jun 9 2010, 09:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is my way .. . I often use metal ball ..
Easy , Convenient .........
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I don't get it .__.