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Thank You and here is the photo of my Old English Postal Scale
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12:06:39am
I like it and would love to have it on the shelf of my stamp room.
But it appears that the scale points to center while it has several brass (?) weights on the one side, and the beam is virtually touching the base on the left.
I don't see any adjustment to use for basic calibration.
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Awsome scale. I was out with the wife antiqueing in Canada last week and ran across a couple wall mount stamp vending machines and wish I had bought one.
It looks like this scale was designed to weigh and item by removing weights rather then adding them.
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03:54:40pm
Of course !!!
I'd have never figured that out, but that make the balance beam mechanism make sense.
One letter after another can be placed and as long as the indicator does not move past some point the weight is less than the first step, possibly a half ounce.
If it does then the weights can be removed as needed and set into the circular hole in the base while the postage is calculated and then the weights replaced and the process can continue.
Great idea.
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I wonder if the vertical down-pointing arrow that points at the little " pointy mountain" in the base is adjustable for calibration/setting zero weight equilibrium?
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Charlie -
that "sounded" like a "GREAT SCOTT!!!" moment....!
Thanks for the out-loud chuckle!
Randy
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Oh that Charlie. Definitely a philosopher of the old school. I would not be surprised if he was a master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump. The most deadly martial art in the world. One swipe of a black puddin and you're history mate.
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Tim, Thanks for the help. I'm so used to uploading photos I forget they need to be "downsized" for certain sites.
Thank You and here is the photo of my Old English Postal Scale
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
09 Sep 2012
12:06:39am
re: Old English Postal Scale
I like it and would love to have it on the shelf of my stamp room.
But it appears that the scale points to center while it has several brass (?) weights on the one side, and the beam is virtually touching the base on the left.
I don't see any adjustment to use for basic calibration.
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re: Old English Postal Scale
Awsome scale. I was out with the wife antiqueing in Canada last week and ran across a couple wall mount stamp vending machines and wish I had bought one.
It looks like this scale was designed to weigh and item by removing weights rather then adding them.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
09 Sep 2012
03:54:40pm
re: Old English Postal Scale
Of course !!!
I'd have never figured that out, but that make the balance beam mechanism make sense.
One letter after another can be placed and as long as the indicator does not move past some point the weight is less than the first step, possibly a half ounce.
If it does then the weights can be removed as needed and set into the circular hole in the base while the postage is calculated and then the weights replaced and the process can continue.
Great idea.
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06:08:45pm
re: Old English Postal Scale
I wonder if the vertical down-pointing arrow that points at the little " pointy mountain" in the base is adjustable for calibration/setting zero weight equilibrium?
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Charlie -
that "sounded" like a "GREAT SCOTT!!!" moment....!
Thanks for the out-loud chuckle!
Randy
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re: Old English Postal Scale
Oh that Charlie. Definitely a philosopher of the old school. I would not be surprised if he was a master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art of Ecky Thump. The most deadly martial art in the world. One swipe of a black puddin and you're history mate.
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