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Other than the doctor
You used to see scales in Boots, swimming pools and sometimes train stations. But I can't remember the last time I saw one and I just want to make sure my home scales are relativley accurate.
I'm getting funny looks when I ask if they can weigh me in the butchers
Well we know where this bloke goes, maybe they'll do you too.
(It's a whale weigh station, innit)
The gym? If you is a member? Alternatively if you have things of known weights you could verify them on your scales?
How accurate do they need to be, as long as they are consistent.
If you need to calibrate your bathroom scales a gallon of cold water weighs 10 pounds.
Remember to allow for the weight of the bucket
a gallon of cold water weighs 10 pounds
Hey grandad, we went metric decades ago!
1 litre = 1 Kg
Boots still have them or maybe just but a set of scales.
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a gallon of cold water weighs 10 poundsHey grandad, we went metric decades ago!
1 litre = 1 Kg
Under your new-fangled metric system do you still need to allow for the weight of the bucket? 😉
Not sure you can calibrate digital bathroom scales.
Plus to do it properly you need to know the altitude as gravity varies with distance from the centre of the Earth, plus with proximity to a large chunk of rock (mountain). Though talking fractions of a gram probably 😀
But an unopened 1kg bag of flour on the scales or something similar, and it reads just about 1kg, then job done. Use those scales.
Only time I care about accuracy is for hold luggage on a plane, but even then the check-in scales aren't consistent and they don't seem to care that much if it's a little over.
Go to your local vets.
I just googled a gallon of water and they say £8.34 not ten who's fibbing?
U.S. gallon or imperial?
The bucket is the other 1.66.
Not at Hans Rey's house.
Remember to allow for the weight of the bucket
But how to accurately weigh the bucket?
Where can you weigh yourself these days?
Mass
Catholic Churches have scales?
I wahey myself everytime I walk by a shop window.
I used to work for a company who supplied weighing scales in public areas - Motorway service stations etc. 20p a go.
They were terribly inaccurate.
Half a stone difference between some of them. They should be calibrated every year or so, but never were. They were a total loss for the company, they'd cost around £750 to buy, we'd take £3 a week on a good week at a service station. Some would take 40p a week.
Digital bathroom scales are accurate enough, you might get a hundred grams discrepancy, but so what.
You're not weighing point 8's of show biz.
Like tyre pressure guages, as long as they are reliable, so you can see less or more.. they don't need to be 100% calibrated.
I checked again and a uk gallon is coming in at the ten pound weight of water, my apologies. I have electronic scales and oldie salter scales the company that supply your local doctors etc and there is almost a stone difference between them, the electro ones im 13s8lb and the old salter spring type 12st10 so you can guess which scale i like best but will try the gallon of water test
Public weighbridge
Not at Hans Rey’s house.
excellent
They were a total loss for the company, they’d cost around £750 to buy, we’d take £3 a week on a good week at a service station. Some would take 40p a week.
Thats one way to shed the pounds
At a rail weight station 🙄
Ignore the weight of the bucket by placing empty bucket on scales then resetting them back to zero then fill bucket with water.
+1 for the vets.
Weigh the cat then me.
Ignore the weight of the bucket by placing empty bucket on scales then resetting them back to zero then fill bucket with water
or always weight yourself with the bucket over your head?
But how do you know if you have exactly 1 litre (or a gallon for the oldies) to put in the bucket?
I hope the OP is planning on stripping naked before climbing on the scales at Boots. Otherwise he'll have to wear the same grundies for all future weigh-ins to maintain calibration.
Add two half litres together.
I used to work for a company who supplied weighing scales in public areas – Motorway service stations etc. 20p a go.
I sometimes question my contribution to society / the universe.
Not any more.
Boots the chemist.
Also just look in the mirror.
Post a photo we'll average the guesses.
You can keep your pants on though