Anyone ever seen this Ohaus scale.

[MrBottleneck]

Cant find any information on this scale. Its seems to be a rarity.
Its marked Cent-O-Gram but, it measures in grains and its marked to 1110 grains.
Its obviously a realoading scale but,the only ones I have seen are the dial a grain which also weight too 1110 grains.
I suppose whats it worth (yeah I know the old saying on that lol) and are they hard to find?

 

[dickn52]

Not sure, but that is a Tri-beam scale for sure.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-CENT-O-GRAM-TRIPLE-BEAM-BALANCE-MODEL-311-by-OHAUS/142267425678?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIC.MBE&ao=2&asc=41402&meid=b01203772ae5474d825f419945bb0f59&pid=100005&rk=1&rkt=6&sd=182473414967

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Triple-Beam...414967?hash=item2a7c435937:g:OlsAAOSwZVlXoAUm

 

[Gabe22BR]

We used them in chemistry class back in high school...

 

[M-61]

Looks like an RCBS 304 but without the DIAL-A-GRAIN wheel. Just wondering----how do set it to 'tenths' ?

 

[MrBottleneck]

The very first beam. If you look close you can see the little metal slide on far left.

 

[KMart]

Humm......A left handed scale. Maybe it is for weighing some varieties of agricultural products.

 

[JimPag]

Those use to be popular in the 60's and 70's. Mine is a 311G Cent-O-Gram 4 beam poise scale, yours is 3 poise one. Those were a high dollar scales at the time. I still have one. RCBS made a deal years ago with Ohaus years ago when Ohaus was making reloading equipment and what went down was basically Ohaus was making everything that they had made only now they were putting RCBS'S name on everything. Those scales like you and I have eventually got phased out. Don't know if cost had anything to do with it but those were the most expensive balance beam scale you could buy at the time. Ohaus is still in business in NJ and still making scales.

 

[5spd]

Those were plentiful to get in the mid-late 70s, saw them in gun catalogs a lot.

 

[fguffey]

Anyone ever seen this Ohaus scale.

Yes I have and yes I do have one, had the purchaser waited a few more years for a few more dollars a scale with a dial could have been had.

F. Guffey

 

[MrBottleneck]

Thanks for the input fellas its appreciated.
JimPag, I am familair with the 304 Dial-A-Grain as an example but, do you have any idea what model this was? I have looked everywhere and contacted Ohaus coming up empty handed. I think I have narrowed it down to being the 314.
Its a rarer model being a late 314 best I can tell as all the other Cent-O-Gram scales like the 311s measured in grams and had a max weighing capacity of 4799.4 grains.
I have heard/read talk about this one but, thats all I can come up with searching other sites.
Odd they call it a Cent-O-Gram when later model that measured in grains where Cent-O-Grain.

 

[Milo 2.0]

I recall that scale too, it was a predecessor to the cent o gram, (same as 304), which had 2 beams and the dial. Truthfully, I think yours is marked wrong as it clearly is not a gram scale. Your pic is fuzzy of the label on it.
The one I recall with trickler stand was cent o grain.

 

[MrBottleneck]

Here is a pic of the label.

 

[1066]

I've never seen one exactly the same as that - It looks quite like a 311 but I've not seen one calibrated in grains.

The old RCBS 304 seem to command a good price when they do come up for sale, the identical scale marked grams go for peanuts. There's no support from RCBS/Ohaus for these old scales now but the knife edges and agate bearing are identical so may be a good source for unobtainable spares.

Here's a 304 I set up to work with an auto trickler:

 

[IdahoSharpshooter]

I had one in the 1970's. Wish I had kept it now. I traded it to a LE friend with a little $$ for an Ainsworth Scale drug bust forfeiture he got.

I'd buy this one, if you ever decide to sell it...

Rich

 

[IdahoSharpshooter]

have you an idea of how much ($$$) you value it?

 

[Mr.Spradlin]

I think I got that same scale sitting in a drawer with the extra weigh set.

Nope mine is the Triple Beam Balance 2610g