"Gravity ruler" luggage scales

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  sergio fernando

  12 years ago

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  Nice and simple solution, congrats.
  
  Ignore the envy of all those designers who never got the idea. heheheh :)

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  v

  12 years ago

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  This has been done before with the bungee substituted with a rubber strip. And a note, there are numerous patents for luggage scales so best check around before you invest your tooling dollars. but i do like the simple design

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  Ben

  12 years ago

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  Fish scale anyone? Nice reapplication, but I agree that the bungee will lose it's accuracy far too quickly.

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  Chris

  12 years ago

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  One reason that this may not have been done before is that as the rubber ages and dry rots it will become increasingly weaker and inaccurate. These only need to be roughly accurate to be useful by giving the user some idea, but I'd wonder how much these vary over time and temperature. Imaging you left your luggage and scale in the hot car and it is 125 degrees F vs 15F in a cold winter and what about after 3,5,10 years?
  
  That said for marketing reasons i wish i had thought of it.

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