Training & Nutrition - where to find cheap professional quality bodyweight scale

I bought a scale the other day, and it's not too accurate, but every scale I've seen that are in people's homes are not accurate. This one is about 5 pounds light, and it weighs differently depending on where you stand on it. I'd like to find an old upright scale, you know, with the sliding weights on top like at a hospital. New ones are probably way expensive. I looked on eBay, but can't find any. Any ideas?

im no scale expert but IMO all scales are the same.

you stand on the thing and its got its sensors/pressure points/whatever in the same places.. it doesnt matter what kind of scale you get. digital, upright with the weights, or one of those ones where the numbers spin around.... they are all based on the same principal... and if youre saying this one you got is 5lbs off, did you read the directions? maybe theres a way to set it to 0 when theres no pressure, to adjust it...... most scales have such a feature...

Yes, it's set to 0. This one and most other home scales are based off of springs. However far you can push the spring down, that's how much you weigh. Wear out the springs, and it looks like you weigh more than you do. I'm assuming that they compensated for this and made the springs too tight, that's why I'm weighing in about 5 pounds less than what I know I do. I did finally figure out how to search for the other scales, it's a "physicans mechanical scale". There are several places on the internet that sells them, anywhere from $200 to $400. Much more accurate than a spring that can wear out.

Stick with the scale you've got to weigh yourself. With the cheaper end ones everyone has, I think they're all calibrated and built differently. I used to drive myself crazy getting on everyone else's scales. Now I stick with using the one I bought from Walgreen's, and I just weigh in about once every 2 weeks or so. I think I'll probably replace it about once every 2 years.

Be sure to set your scale at 0 before you get on every time you weigh yourself.

Koffee

Just because it is a "physicians" type scale doesn't mean anything. It still needs to be calibrated too! Probably needs to be calibrated quite often to be accurate. Unless you have standard weights and know how to calibrate scales you're probably better off with a scale from the "mega-lo mart".