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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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
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.
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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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
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?
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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