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...
Skink Reviewed by Skink on . 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 Rating: 5