Health o Meter Physician Balance Beam Scale

I ordered the 402LB from wholesalepoint.com for $[...]. It arrived very quickly via FedEx Ground. Putting it together was not difficult; it took about 15 minutes.

The scale works perfectly and dependably... if I step on and off three times, I get the same reading each time, which was not the case with our previous digital scale.

I am very happy!

I wanted this product, I needed this product, I never got satisfactory delivery of this product. Three(3) times a product was shipped and three(3) times the product was returned because the flimsy shipping box was so damaged in transit that parts were or could have been missing. My request to have the box shrink-wrapped to protect the product was ignored. Alas, my dream for an accurate weight scale goes unfulfilled.

This scale is very easy to put together, it is very accurate, and it is 100% consistent. It is a heavyweight - just like the scale the doctors use - not some flimsy imitation.

I had a standard bathroom scale that wasn't inexpensive, but you could step onto it 3 times in a row and get 3 different readings that would vary by up to six pounds. When you are trying to figure out if you have lost or gained weight in a given week, that level of accuracy is useless. If you get on this scale 100 times in a row, it gives you the exact same, accurate weight every time. I can't overstate how important this is to staying motivated.

I should note one more thing, because this confused me when I was trying to make a purchasing decision. I research things extensively (maybe obsessively) and I had noticed that some scales by this maker, seemingly of the same model, seemed to have a silver colored balance beam, and others seemed to have a black colored balance beam. When I got the scale I realized that the balance beam is reversible, with one side being in pounds and the other side being in kilos. The two sides are different colors, so when you are looking at various pictures that do not show model numbers please understand that a different colored balance beam does not necessarily indicate a different model of scale. This is important because if you research these types of scales you will find that some sites that rate these types of scales have brought in experts to test the various scales under scientific conditions, and the Health o Meter came out on top. These sites don't give model numbers, but the Health o Meter scale they show looks just like this one, but for the fact that a different side of the balance beam is showing, and but for the fact that it is way more expensive than Amazon sells it for.

Very easy to set up & very consistent in weights. With my old digital scale I could get right back on it & it would vary by 3 pounds, not this new one. Wish I had bought one years ago. Highly recommend..

The scale is super accurate. It will be nice to know my actual weight as opposed to "about" how much I weigh by stepping on and off of my old scale 5 or 6 times.

The height bar on mine is steel (arrived today 8/22/2008), so maybe all of the new ones will be steel.

One problem mine did have is that the top cap on the height bar was broken off, which made the height bar unusable (the bar assembly would just slide out of the rail.) The cap was put on with rivets that must have snapped in shipment, as the part was loose in the box. I was able to cut down some small bolts to reattach the cap and we are all good now, but this could have been a problem for someone who would not be willing or able to do a repair like that and really wanted the height function. I would assume this was an isolated problem unless more people are having it in the future.

Even with that I still give the scale a 5, as the scale is a great value and I would have taken it with no height bar at all anyway.