Anyone seen a scale like this?

[Oldtuleguy]

Here's a scale a buddy found in trash

 

[The Cobbler]

it's an oldie with the brass weights & pan . would be a nice restoration piece for someone like

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNBN5cN0UHyTsBmY3vs36xQ

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Just wondering what it's for. Definately old...

 

[The Cobbler]

used in a hardware store, grocery store, any place that had to weigh bulk product

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Just a generic merchant's scale?

 

[The Cobbler]

I would think so

 

[4xdog]

Double-pan balance. Those were old gear (but still in use) when I started working in industrial chemical and coating labs in 1979.

 

[Half-fast eddie]

Just a generic merchant's scale?

Could even be for nails. Anything you needed to weigh then pour into a container. Seed?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I was thinking maybe hardware

 

[RTM]

I’m not used to seeing replaceable weights out in the public use areas. When I was a kid, the hardware store public scale had moveable counterbalance weights. I expect those weights stored in the boxes to be more of a scientist usage, or jeweler (kinda big). Assuming that’s ten # capacity.

What is the shape inside the zero of the 10? A feeding chicken? Maybe for small amounts of pet feed? Or is that actually a Kg?

With that columned front piece, it will be quite the looker. Assuming cast iron?


Might be a Remadja brand from googling images? So maybe rice sales.

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[Oldtuleguy]

Yup cast iron. No brand name just the 10kg on front. That remadja looks pretty similar

 

[Farmer J.]

It's a lovely old big balance scale for weighing bulk products, and would look good cleaned up. Mrs Farmer J worked in a hardware store when she was a teenager and sold nails, food for pet rabbits all kinds of bulk stuff weighed out in scales like that.

 

[humber2]

With balance scales you can check if a pound of lead is heavier than a pound of feathers.

 

[don long]

Oldtuleguy
Put hat into the tool challenge thread and I'll take it !!!!
Very restorable beauty

 

[4xdog]

The design details on the bottom frame and the graphics of the 10kg emblem look like non-US production to me. Vaguely Asian. Double-pan balances have been around for a long time, and are still sold today.

Any chance that one isn't a relic after all, but rather mistreated more recent production?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Came out of someone's trash, really no idea, but looks like it's old, weights look old and has certainly seen alot of use...

 

[65ranchero]

Make sure you take it to the County to get the certified weight sticker

Nice recovery As always clean, paint and display!

 

[larry4406]

Take it down to the hood and sell it to the, ah, hum, local "green grocer". Make sure you have ounces and gram weights which I have heard from a friend are the preferred measurements.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Gonna have to sand blast this sucker

 

[Marsim]

I don't know how to post a link. English Salvage has yours listed for $64. Ref 25597. Just says it's vintage.

 

[Jayman17]

Oldtuleguy
Put hat into the tool challenge thread and I'll take it !!!!
Very restorable beauty

You beat me to it, I was going to say that scale needs the “Don Long treatment”.

Jay

 

[disston]

I would be very careful with blasting all the crud off. I'd try to keep it looking old. I bet it's usable in it's current state.

I have some old scales but this one is nicer than any of mine.

 

[65Goat]

Gonna have to sand blast this sucker

I know nothing about antiques, but I hear the word patina a lot. Does that mean some people like all the crud?

 

[The Cobbler]

it would be a nice fit in Don's arsenal for sure.

 

[nadogail]

I remember seeing one like that in a bakery in the late 40's.

 

[tymbo]

A balance measures mass, whereas a scale measures weight.
(the balance would work the same on the moon or mars)

 

[Oldtuleguy]

So far it is doing a good job as a cool ashtray!

 

[ChefRex]

At least you repurposed it. lol, it's cool and that you have the weights is a plus.