You know you’re a PMEL geek if...

[docbyers]

you calibrate your measuring cups in the kitchen.

Kitchen-Aid seems to make the best...

What?  You thought you were the only one that did this?  ...and how is the linearity on your bathroom weight scale? 

[flew-da-coup]

The linearity and sensitivity are okay. It was hard to corner load though. Too little area for so much weight.  I decided to no longer use the scale as a direct read. I have a set of class E2 weights and use the bathroom scale as a comparator. I do a double substitution weigh design and use a 100g sensitivity weight. I have been charting my scale for 2 years now.

[docbyers]

It's always fun when you're at the doctor's office and you step on their scale (not a cal sticker in sight) and tell them it's to hell and gone off, because your scale at home reads such-and-such weight, and their scale is off by 5 pounds...  Then you launch into an explanation of E2 weights, tracability, linearity and atmospheric pressure, and the nurse decides then and there that you're a helluva lot smarter than her boss, the doctor...

After hours she weighs herself on the scale at the office, then goes home and tries her scale, and thinks "Damn!  That weird guy this morning was right!!"

The phone rings, and it's the nurse: "Can you bring your E squared weights over to my apartment and check my scale?  I think it's not reading correctly..."

That evening, while putting your clothes back on, you remind her to call you in 3 months so you can check her scale again, because that's the recommended calibration cycle...

[flew-da-coup]

hahahaha

[Spacenut]

I proudly wore my "Samarui Calibrator" T shirt - and the Mrs did always fancy a go on the surface plate. 

[mdbuike]

I take my guitar tuners (I have four different pedal types..for different setups), and compare them to the 3325B connected to the house clock..is that obsessive?

Mike

[Winterfire2008]

I challenged the scale used at an airport in a undisclosed country that said I was 7 kilos over the alloted 30 kilos.  I got suspicious when I was told it was going to be 30 dollars per kilo... That was more than my ticket!  I asked in a very loud voice when this scale had last been calibrated  by the country's weight and measures?   How was I to know if the scale was accurate as there was no validation sticker on it?  Other passengers started paying attention.  Next thing I knew the ticket agent was waving all fees.

[metrologygeek]

BAM! Another win for the Metrology Geeks!

[mrrob007]

everytime you see a set of calipers stored with the jaws tightly shut, you go ballistic on the owner.

(I race radio controlled cars, everyone in the pits has a set, 95% of them store them fully closed.... )

[USMCPMEL]

You have ever had to explain why you were wearing white cotton gloves to touch your gage blocks... If someone else calls me Michael Jackson I am gonna flip!!!

[Hippie]

If people constantly ask you about the weather,after you explain what PMEL is.

[Wilk]

You bring your job home with you to the point where you have traceable graphs like that for all 7 speakers in you custom made home theater.

Or if you reply to this thread.

[mrrob007]

Or if you have used a laser distometer to precisely place all 7 speakers equidistance from your prefered home theatre seat.....

[PMEL Whore]

Or, if you measure your car for the seat, pedals and steering wheel so you can set the ergonomics of your game console exactly right

[Broken_Wings]

Or, if you measure your car for the seat, pedals and steering wheel so you can set the ergonomics of your game console exactly right

You should have done that at race car fantasy camp.