need 200 gr weight

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i bought an electronic scale and the shipper forgot to include the weight for calibrating the scale and the scale needs a 200 gr or comparable grams in order to calibrate it.

just wondering where can i get something that's 200 gr and accurate enough to set the scale

thank you
 
i bought an electronic scale and the shipper forgot to include the weight for calibrating the scale and the scale needs a 200 gr or comparable grams in order to calibrate it.

just wondering where can i get something that's 200 gr and accurate enough to set the scale

thank you

you can use 200 grain bullets.
Brownie
 
Stuff like bullets and arrow heads might be dead on for weight, but easy to find plus or minus a grain or more if you weigh 25 of them. I would hope calibration weights for a scale are "dead on" or .001 or less tolerances. Whatever you decide to use, use the exact same one, every time that you calibrate - that way if you work up to a load that your scale says in 52.3 grains, then you will get the same, next time, but only if you used exactly the same made up calibration thing - not one like it or from the same box - the exact same one.
Anything that is used to measure, that does not have a calibration standard, is really not "for sure" accurate - why good micrometers include a "standard" when you buy them - and instructions for what temperature to be at, to check and set your micrometer. Many shops have a tape measure standard - amazing how many tape measures have different ideas how long 10 feet 3 1/4" is - so good shops only get and use stuff that is "accurate" - that agree with each other - might also be "cheap", or not, but has to be "accurate"...
 
I guess I wanted to be on the cheap and use bullets but I tried one of the more expensive ones the Speer 120 gr Match box 6.5 which is about $60.00 retail but I found out that they are not all the same weight, some are out about .2 gr for example, 120.20 instead of 120 gr.

so I guess I do need to get a set of weights as suggested by serg777, if I want to be sure of the accuracy.

I contacted the shipper but the mother wanted me to pay for shipping, #### that. I rather put the cost of shipping towards a set of weights
 
Goes to my point about calibration - sounds like your scale is reading 120.20 for some, 120.00 for others, so likely they are different from each other in weight, but without accurately calibrating the scale, there is no reason to believe those numbers are absolute "true" weights, that someone else would also get on their calibrated scale.

But, if you have access to buddy or whomever with a calibrated scale, can make or use your own things as a "calibration weight" - what their scale says it weighs is likely the "true" weight. I had reason to do some dust sampling at work some years ago - draw air through a filter - weigh filter before and then after the sampling - the lab quality Mettler scale had to be sent to NIST for calibration first - I think it went to .0001 grams accuracy, possibly even to the fifth digit - even in very dusty work environment, not much to weigh on a 1" square filter!!!

Lab would weigh and label new filter cassettes - sampling people would use some of those cassettes - different people would receive the used cassettes and also include some never used ones - back to lab - the "blanks" were to discover how correct or how accurate was their ability to weigh things - they did not know which were the same as they weighed before and which may have contaminate on the filter - the blanks needed to be come back with identical weights correct, in order to accept any of other numbers that they reported - else had to reject whole batch and redo whole commotion again. Getting a "number" was useless - had to know it was an "accurate" and "correct" number, that could be replicated, if necessary.
 
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