Price : $177.34
Product Description
The 402KL/402KLSB Physician Balance Beam Scale with built in height rod features a large heavy-duty steel 1/4 lb platform with raised balance beam for increased foot room. With accurate readout and easy weight reading,the weight capacity is 390 with optional counterweight to bump up to 490lb.. The 402KL Physician Balance Beam Scale also features easy to read double beams with slide poises and a 30"-78" measuring rod to help monitor growth. The rugged zinc die cast beam is constructed with copper, nickel, chrome plating with protective rolled edges, rounded corners and filled with durable white baked enamel finish.
Health o Meter Physician Balance Beam Scale
Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 6.8 x 59.2 inches ; 30 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 43.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
- Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
- ASIN: B0009MFUZY
- UPC: 892076002565 022319408254 892076002015 027045642354
- Item model number: 402KL/402KLSB
Product Features
- Scale is just like the one you'd find in your doctor's office
- Heavy gauge steel base and platform for professional accuracy
- Silent slide height rod measures from 30-78 inches
- Weight capacity 390 with optional counterweight to bump up to 490lb
Costumer Reviews
My strain-gauge bathroom scale as well as the more traditional spring-loaded one don't give me consistent readings. I could step on and off all day and never get three consistent readings. Even the range of readings fluctuates depending on the weather, positioning, stars and so on.
If your scale tops out at 250 lb and you weigh 245, expect to see inaccuracies. If you're 180 lb, the scales are more accurate and precise for that sweet-spot weight (for this example)
Now about this one:
Assembly is required. But it's minimal and well worth it.
- The four-nut install is simple if you place the column as the instructions suggest.
- Make sure you tighten and retighten with the provided tool so you don't have to do this again later. Don't use any more force than this tool allows, the nuts seem to be designed to firmly lock the base to the column.
- Even hooking up the assembly from the column to the base was designed for consumers, there's a convenient thumb-pull that brings the hook out of the column so the base can be functional. It sounds more complicated than it is.
Accuracy:
- It's easy to zero-adust with the big cylindrical weight on the left. Turn the screw one way or the other to get the indicator to float between the constraining ends.
- This is a balance beam, so you're simply balancing your weight with the counterweight. There are no springs that get weaker or change with the weather, no strain gauges that vary based on your foot's proximity to the corners.
- Here's how good it is. I drink 24 oz of water after weighing myself. Step back on and I'm exactly 1.5 lb heavier. I've never seen a bathroom scale work as well.
- If you're over 350 lb, prepare to do some math. Placing the supplied counterweights in the notches is easy, adding 88 lb or 150 lb as appropriate isn't that easy, but there is a handy table supplied for easy lookup, in 1-lb increments.
- You can measure 500 lb, not 450lb as the information suggests.
- An additional benefit here is that you could weigh suitcases before flying so that you don't have to dump stuff at the airport when airlines get testy about keeping the weight down. Bathroom scales don't do a good job of this and they are harder to read.
- I'd trust this more than a bathroom scale for parcels, say of 5lb or more.
Extras:
- Keep the weights safe and around if you're going over 350lb.
- There's a vertical scale in the middle that lets you measure heights up to 7 ft (I think). Great if you have growing kids.
- If you have a baby, you can simply get on the scale, measure your weight and then get back on with the baby. The difference will be consistent enough to yield the baby's weight. With bathroom scales, your balance change while holding the baby will cost you accuracy.
This is an extremely reliable scale just like the kind in the doctor's office. It is easily assembled ; set up. The results are consistent ; the scale is sensitive to 1/4 of a pound. Stop getting on and off those digital and analog scales to get a reliable reading - this one is worth every penny. I should have gotten it years ago.
Update: 6/13/2008: I am still happily using this scale without any problems at all. It is still a good match for the doctor's scale ; also for my veterinarian's scale when we weigh our dog. This has helped me lose 65 lbs and keep it off.
