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Amazon EK3211 Scale: Re-Footing

Our long-suffering kitchen scale lost a pair of feet, most likely because those two feet do most of the skidding as we slide it onto a shelf below a cabinet. The scale has (well, had) six silicone rubber feet:

Amazon EK3211 Scale - OEM foot
Amazon EK3211 Scale – OEM foot

The vagaries of color photography turned a neutral-gray silicone disk into that weird blue.

A pair of ¼ inch disks punched from non-skid textured rubber tape fit perfectly into the recesses:

Amazon EK3211 Scale - tread foot
Amazon EK3211 Scale – tread foot

Now, we’ll see how tread adhesive withstands the same abuse.