Looking for an accurate bathroom scale!

Of course, I don't know whether the biomedical folks ever actually calibrate our scale. If a patient brought the home scale in that would just mean we all have the same degree of approximation, not necessarily that anybody is really accurate. All I can say for certain about the office scales is that the tares are correct and that the scales in the office all read within about 1/4# of each other. Or at least, they all show my weight within about 1/4# of each other. I haven't tested precision on any of my 300# patients. All of which illustrates how complex a process calibration can be.

The closest we get to comparing weights on home scales is the patients who weigh themselves immediately prior to their office visit (or immediately afterwards) so they can complain about how my scales make them heavier than they really are.

buy a new scale, analog or digital....

we have a digital scale, about 8 yrs old and still using the original 9v battery, and it's STILL accurate to 50 grams....


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If you don't like any of the recommended models or replies, why post here at all? Apparently nobody has your desired model or they would have posted a reply about it by now.

You get what you pay for, and how much you pay for. A $40 scale where some of that money goes to bells and whistles you may or may not need isn't going to last as long as your basic mechanical $40 scale that just shows your weight. Food for thought. Oh, and if it makes a difference, the brand scale I mentioned in my reply to Angeline was Detecto (not Detector). That scale was at least 25 years old (probably older) when last used and it was accurate as always. Scales tend to last longer and weigh more accurately when weights are in the middle of the weight limit, not when going up near the high end. Since the population is getting heavier, most decent models now go up to 300lbs plus. A person in the 100-200 lb range might not see the need for this capacity, but it will last a lot longer than a scale with a lower limit.

Of course you might want to spring for one of these

"If you don't like any of the recommended models or replies, why post here at all?"

Did I complain about any of the replies here?