Using a non-digital scale - Beam will not come back to zero!

[Revoman]

You have described exactly what I had done with my scale, level it, zero it in the level position and by mucking with the lead weights in the bottom of the bucket....I hadda very small piece of lead to cut to get it to absolute zero. We're taking a flake here! Used a #8 shot which was about twice what was needed. Flattened it with a plier and cut it with a razor knife.

Works real well. But you're correct, it should have to be like that.

The knife edge on your scale should not have been that defective, not a good thing for a precision instrument, sounds like it got whacked in transit too with the bend in the beam.

Glad that you gotter up and runnin' tho!

[Bill Steele]

My read is it was a manufacturing defect. I will not slander any other country, as I have not taken the time to verify where it was made, but based on the calibration of the dish weight and these gouges, I would bet this scale was built, ah, offshore.

I guess if something like this was built here nowadays, it would have been $2000 and that would have been with underfunded pensions...

All's well that ends well I guess, what else would I have had to do while watching the game? Maybe decapped a few hundred cases that just came out of the ultrasonic cleaner that isn't working very well, but that, as they say, is another story.