The need for reliable and accurate laboratory scales is obvious. If you can’t trust your scale to give you accurate readings, you can’t trust anything that you do in the lab. Your scale is an essential tool, and you must trust it completely. So, when it starts to ‘act up’, you may think about replacing it to make sure your experiments and other work are not compromised.
However, as you are certainly aware, new scales are expensive. Dipping into your annual budget for something like a new scale could wind up taking money away from other projects you had in mind. Fortunately, you might not have to go the replacement route. By choosing to have your lab scale repaired instead, you could benefit in three specific ways.
#1 – Save Time
As the saying goes, time is money. No matter what you do in your lab, there is no doubt that losing time to bad equipment is going to cost you money in the long run. If you decide to order a new scale, you will have to wait for it to arrive, and then you will have to spend time calibrating it once it’s delivered. You can’t get that time back, and it might set your operation back significantly when all is said and done.
Instead, you may opt to have your scale serviced and repaired. There is a good chance that this will be done right there in your lab, and you should be able to get back to work. That means a minimum amount of downtime, and a better chance to keep everything on schedule.
#2 – Save Money
Of course, this would be a major motivation for opting for repair instead of replacement. Even if the scale is currently way off with its measurements, there is a good chance that the repair will be relatively minor. This is especially true when comparing the cost of repair to the cost of an entirely new scale. You have already invested in the scale you have in your lab today, so why spend that money all over again to replace something which could be easily fixed? Every dollar is important to the average lab, so steer clear of this additional cost and just have your gear fixed instead.
#3 – Save Headaches
One of the best things about your current scale is the fact that you know how to use it. You know where the buttons are, you know what they do, and you know how to read the scale perfectly. If you were to replace this model with a new scale, there would be some amount of learning curve involved. Not only is this change something that will affect you, but it will affect your entire staff as well. Everyone will have to be trained on how to use the new scale, which is another time drain. If possible, a quick fix on your current scale will have your up and running in no time at all – and there will be nothing new to learn.