Originally Posted By: hamerheadOK guys. I cleaned it top to bottom with alcohol. It looks like new. I un-screwed the plate from the pan and took out one tiny ball and got it to ballance, with a little adjust ment with the screw leg. The problem now is, when the scale beam comes up from the bottom it settles at Zero, but when it goes down from the top and settles, it's almost a grain high. What would be causing this? Does it have something to do with the magnets that stablize it? It really shouldn't be this hard, should it?
Hamer
Something is dragging. The magnets have nothing to do with friction - they only wirk on the beam when it is moving, the slower it moves, the less the magnets work - when it stops, the magnets have no effect.
See if you can find where there is friction - it is usually in the bearing/knife place.
Look at the knife edges and make sure that they have no dings in them - that is the biggest cause of drag
Clean it very well, and if you have loose agate bearings, make sure that they're free to move.