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Just picked up this #Salter Improved Family Scale to gift a friend who's getting married and is into old-fashioned stuff and British stuff.
But, it doesn't quite sit at 0. Does anyone have any experience on how to tare a machine like this? There's no knob as far as I can see. The plate on top also doesn't seem like it can be removed without force.
More pictures below.
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CW: Accuracy
So I bought a simple kitchen weigh-things-so-you-can-get-proportions-as-per-instructions scale thing. I’ve only ever used analogue scales (the term is usually plural despite it being a singular item), so this is a new thing for me! I remember that the Food Tech (or whatever it was called) classroom at my secondary school having scales that looked so similar that it seems unlikely they weren’t the same model. They were abused, and thus didn’t work well. I don’t intend to abuse this though. It was cheap too!
So, what’s the first thing I do with this item? Attempt to determine its accuracy, of course!
In the pictures, blablabla unboxing experience…then zeroing the scale at the weight of a Pyrex jug, then filling the jug such that I have “1000g” of water. The jug should, in theory, be right at the “1 litre” mark. It wasn’t. I don’t know which to distrust more!
Yeet. (I have no clue what my phone did with the white balance on a couple of the pictures.)