WTF... Scale Problems: Part II

And just when I thought I had it all figured out..

So yeah yesterday I dug out my scale in preparation for the ounce I was pickin up tonight. I opened it up and I got this error message which I later found out had to do with calibration. So then I had to figure out how to calibrate my scale without a 100 gram weight that apparently you need to do so.. so yeah long story short, through one of your suggestions I decided to use 20 nickels as 100.0 grams for calibrating the scale. It worked like a charm and I thought everything was good to go...

Now I have the ounce and I'm ready to break it up but I just don't trust the weights.. It's the most mind boggling thing.. When I put 20 nickels on the scale the display reads 100.0 but when I put one individual nickel on.. it reads 5.7g what the fuckkkkkkkkk how is that possible?

So then I started really messing around with it and split the 20 nickels into 4 groups of 5 and placed them on the scale and it read 100.0 then I removed three groups and the scale should have read 25.0 but instead read 28.somethin and so then I replaced all four groups again and it read 100.0 and then I removed all but one different group of 5 nickels and same shit happened.. How is it that these nickels weigh more in small groups then as a whole. I'm so mad right now cause I can't trust these weights and apparently can trust them less in small quanities which is what I need for breakin up this ounce.. fuck! Please HELPPPPP!

you can't trust any substitute weight for calibration...your scale is not calibrated... will the same pile of nickles giv you the same reading at diff times??? like if you shut down the scale and turn it on later...

yeah I'm gettin 100 grams everytime when I have all 20 nickels together but when they're in groups less than that there are discrepancies...I just don't get this.. every individual nickel weights 5.7 but together they make 100 on the dot I just don't get it.. and yeah I mean obviously all 20 together is gonna make 100.0 since that's what I'm using to calibrate but even so how is it that when I take exactly half (10 nickels off) I get a reading of 56.4 and with 5 nickels on I get a reading of 28.1...

I am just completely thrown off and I consider myself pretty intelligent...

see if all the nickles weigh the same, if they all weigh 5.7 then your scale is fucked and you need a new one, however if you weigh all 20 (seperately) and then add them up and it equals 100 then your good.

there's just no way all these nickels weigh different amounts and even if they did there's no way some would be under 5 grams which would be necessary to cancel out those over 5 grams.. ugh I'm so fucked! I bought this thing like 3 weeks ago for 25 bucks and I used it ONE time for weighing out ONE ounce..now I take it out a few weeks later to weigh a SECOND ounce and it's completely ass-fucked?! I just don't get this.. I'm really waiting for that one person out there with the golden answer..

go buy a 100 gram weight, you cheap fucker! lolol

jk man...sorta :rastasmoke:

ya or go buy a new scale or eye ball the weight

Sounds like you $25.00 scale isn't even worth 25 cents. Can you calibrate it to one nickel....5gms?

Yeah I've officially given up thanks for the quick responses but there must be somethin wrong with it.. gonna go give the guy in the mall who sold me it some hell at which point he'll ask if I have the receipt and I will be all shit outta luck...

It's one in the morning.. I have to get up for school in like 5-6 hours but I'm just gonna break off a nug..WITHOUT knowing the weight lol and burn it to my dome..get really high.. and sleep on it.

Later all.. Stay high.

Time for a new one bro.