MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Newer high quality digital scales define values to a tenth of a pound. Weigh a brand new VRB, then weigh it again when it goes bad. If it has lost so much as a tenth of a pound or 35 grams, your bad....Just make sure you also have a non-volatile check weight to ensure the scale accuracy had not drifted. A bag with 62 pounds of rocks makes a decent counterweight for some GC batteries.
Regular VRB users really should do this weight verification test to determine if written rote agrees with reality. You'd be surprised.
Damn engineers. Always insisting on high tech stuff. :B