Anyone know of a good accurate scale for measuring small amounts. Preferably something under 50$
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Looking for a scale accurate to 1 mg
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Nutz4butts
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I’m looking for the same thing. I seen a few on amazon that were under $50.
This is the one I was looking at
Nutz4butts
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That’s the same one I was thinking of getting. I want to cap Adex but I know I need a good scale so I don’t fuck it up.
XmadXscientist
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Not going to happen without a high quality laboratory grade scale. 50$ is a pipe dream try 300-1000$ easily.
Yea that's what I was gonna day.
I have that one. It works just fine but I have put powder on it and not have it register. So though it weighs to the .001 gram I dunno how accurate it actually is. Obviously it won't matter much weighing something like var for e.g. if you want 10mg but really end up with 12.
But if you wanna literally weigh out 1mg (.001 of a gram) I dunno if that would register on the cheap scale.
I was afraid of that. What do you recommend?
XmadXscientist
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What do you want to measure? The scale you mentioned will be accurate within 5-10mg
1mg of armidex . I guess I can just make a solution or suspension. Have you ever made a solution with arimidex or cialis?
XmadXscientist
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Probably better. I haven’t made one before but I think there’s a thread on the first page.
Sk8man101
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The $20 one I bought off amazon did the trick.
If your gunna do Mcg I'd deffidently not cheap out on a scale though.
If your gunna do Mcg I'd deffidently not cheap out on a scale though.
LordSamuilo
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Cialis wont go into solution I've tried it a dozen times , the best thing is to just use something that tastes good and make a suspension....
The adex will go into solution , but the only problem is you have to make a concentrate bottle with it . Otherwise to make a gram of adex at 1mg/ml you end up with a liter of solution .. another way to do it is put 1 gram of powder into 100ml of solution(e.i. everclear ) that will leave you with 10mg/ml . Then you can just pull 1unit(.1) on a dropper syringe for 1mg...
master.on
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Don't bother measuring 1 mg, even big pharma tries to avoid that.
Even if the scale is accurate enough, some powder remains on the weighing paper
Weighing paper - Wikipedia
So may either want to either
1 brew it in liquid (i.e. you can search for my post a couple weeks ago on Adex solubility in alcohol, I think it was about 10 mg/ml. Posted in this Homebrew subsorum)
2 Not recommended but you get a chance to weigh 1 mg of powder in a true milligram scale at a real lab and see how small it is.
Then you can eyeball it with the tip of a small eyeglass screwdriver.
I've tried adding 1 mg calibrated weights (actually thin paper foils) to Amzn "milligram" scales and they won't change reading until after the third mg is added = not very accurate down to mg.
Again, not recommended but eyeballing is actually more accurate than weighing in cheap scales, provided you weighed a milligram in a real mg scale (and have good memory to remember it).
At least buy some cheap mg calibration weights so you can see for yourself how inaccurate your cheap "milligram" scale actually is
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http://www.addictionsurvivors.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=25763
With calibration weights, this DIY scale may actually be fairly accurate for a mg
Chapter 9: Mathematics -- Build a homemade microgram balance, a scale that measures micrograms
LordSamuilo
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A good affordable scale to pick-up are these adams equipment lab scales , its the scale i use but even on this scale i dont think i would try to weigh out anything under a few mg's . They go from a 150-650$ ... 
This is why if people are capping they should be using a filler and capping machine instead of trying to weigh single doses. It takes a few extra steps to figure out the quantity of filler and active ingredient to mix , but its much more accurate especially for anything dosed a few mg's or less . Otherwise your better off making a solution or suspension.
Just for reference the scale i posted under the adams is the bare minimum youd want to use for weighing in micrograms and is more or less what youd fined in a compounding pharmacy ... obviously alot more expensive and accurate , plus is fully enclosed because even airflow will through off your scale when you're weighing in mcg's...
Edit : i posted a picture of the wrong adams scale , but you can look up the adams mg scales their similar ..
This is why if people are capping they should be using a filler and capping machine instead of trying to weigh single doses. It takes a few extra steps to figure out the quantity of filler and active ingredient to mix , but its much more accurate especially for anything dosed a few mg's or less . Otherwise your better off making a solution or suspension.
Just for reference the scale i posted under the adams is the bare minimum youd want to use for weighing in micrograms and is more or less what youd fined in a compounding pharmacy ... obviously alot more expensive and accurate , plus is fully enclosed because even airflow will through off your scale when you're weighing in mcg's...
Edit : i posted a picture of the wrong adams scale , but you can look up the adams mg scales their similar ..
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master.on
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Nice ones
but be aware that even with these pro scales, parma or compounding pharmacies won't risk (or bother) weighing a single milligram at a time.
They just won't weigh cap by cap
Instead they weigh the TOTAL amount for the required caps (i.e. 30, 60, 90) and use GEOMETRIC DILUTION, preferably including a DYE to ensure even mixing.
Anavar capsulation.
LordSamuilo
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Yeah I agree , I wouldnt ever try to weigh anything cap by cap , but with alot of new people getting into brewing i keep seeing this topic pop up . Then on top of trying to weigh single doses (which is already a bad idea ) they are buying these cheap milligram scales off the Internet and dont realize that the margin of error with these scales is pretty significant when your talking about a dose which is a few milligrams or less..
Dont get me wrong those cheap scales are great for the majority of compounds people will be working with , but if you make a batch of anadrol and its off 3-4 mgs its not a problem . Now if you do the same thing with adex its a bad situation. ..
My thoughts on it are if you're not comfortable capping the right way , or dont have the proper set up to do it accurately you're better off to just sticking to solutions/suspensions... and thats not knocking anybody its just purely in the interest of safety for people just getting into brewing..
Nutz4butts
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Thank you! This makes sense now. I’ve seen other threads where someone was using PEG 300 and everclear. Can you get by without the PEG 300 or is it needed.
LordSamuilo
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Ive never used peg for anything , but it just depends on the concentration you're trying to make I suppose . I dont make a lot of solutions/suspensions anymore , but I always start off trying to make a solution with only everclear . If it wont stay in solution then I know next time I make it to use ora-sweet and just make a suspension with it ... I dont try to fight anything into solution though !
It depends on the purity of your raws , but 10mg/ml of arimidex has held in solution fine for me with grain alcohol only . I wouldnt try to concentrate it anymore than that though.
On a side note though from how i understand it peg is more of a dispersal aid than a solvent(though it serves both purposes ) ?! The glycol chains help hold a liquid in suspension more uniformly , but if it doesnt hold in solution with grain alcohol alone i dont know if the addition of peg will make a huge difference in solubility? Like i said i could be way off base but that was my takeaway from what ive read about peg...
Nutz4butts
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Thank you for taking the time to respond back and in such great detail! Obviously I’m new to the entire capping and home brewing game. I understand the capping process but I wanted to pound my head into the wall trying to figure out an extremely accurate way for Adex. I’m going to do what you suggested as this seems the easiest and most accurate way at this point.
LordSamuilo
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No problem bro , this is just my personal choice but the best way ive found to dose adex accurately .... is to buy aromasin raws instead
.Its alot more forgiving when it comes to dosing , and for the price of 1 box of pharma you can buy enough raw to last you a few lifetimes .
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