Well, you've learned why there's no digital anything on my bench. Quirky, ain't they?
I worked most of my life as an electonic measurement instruments tech in the space/defense business. Had good job security (until those crop-failure Russians gave up) fixing that sort of stuff. I no longer have a goverment owned repair/calibration lab handy to work on them so I have no interest in them.
Beam scales work off gravity and that doesn't change. Set one up on a shelf so the pointer is at eye level, as they should be, and a beam is easily as fast to use and simple to read as a digital. Most of those who praise digitals are either (1) lucky - so far - or (2) are using their beams wrong, usually by simply sitting them down on the bench top. But poor placement and/or a poor work flow path isn't really a problem against the tool, is it?
Other folk's digital mileage may vary...for awhile. But my Ohaus made beam scale is still going stong, still as sensitive and accurate as it was the day a young man opened that magical box of mail order reloading tools in '65.
