SELLING Vintage NIB Herters scale

[bpd459]

Greetings,
Selling a NIB vintage Herters #5 Scale. Cast iron base marked “Patent Pending”. Great history piece.
$100.0 shipped.
John

 

[R.Morehouse]

I will take this.......Yet another very cool thing for the display shelf of very cool reloading things.....

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[bpd459]

SPF

 

[Bc'z]

Greetings,
Selling a NIB vintage Herters #5 Scale. Cast iron base marked “Patent Pending”. Great history piece.
$100.0 shipped.
John

Now that it's sold I have a question about scale....
What's the flat wire looking springy thing sticking off of left side of unit?

 

[R.Morehouse]

Now that it's sold I have a question about scale....
What's the flat wire looking springy thing sticking off of left side of unit?

I believe it is to be able to center the pointer if you choose to before releasing it to weigh the load in the pan......But I MAY have that wrong.

Regards
Rick

 

[MrK.]

Now that it's sold I have a question about scale....
What's the flat wire looking springy thing sticking off of left side of unit?

I have the same scale. When you place the pan on the scale to weigh something you get wide swings of the beam. You push that piece of flat steel in where it encounters the point of the swinging beam and it makes it settle faster.

 

[rlporter507]

I believe it is to be able to center the pointer if you choose to before releasing it to weigh the load in the pan......But I MAY have that wrong.

Regards
Rick

you are correct.
Herter's didn't make any of there stuff I know of, there is one for sale on e-bay that is a Krupp, not sure if that is a house brand or the actual maker.
If possible, ether the seller or buyer could send me a scan of the instructions? I have one of these with the box, which is pretty cool also, to complete mine.
thanks.

 

[R.Morehouse]

I will send you a copy when it gets here......Shoot me a PM with a detailed title to remind me.

Regards
Rick

 

[Bc'z]

I will send you a copy when it gets here......Shoot me a PM with a detailed title to remind me.

Regards
Rick

I'm glad you picked this up, I looked at it half dozen times, the weight, footprint, 4 leveling screws, stamped beam and oil dampened almost got me. Lol
Let me know how it operates for you
Brett

 

[R.Morehouse]

I'm glad you picked this up, I looked at it half dozen times, the weight, footprint, 4 leveling screws, stamped beam and oil dampened almost got me. Lol
Let me know how it operates for you
Brett

I sure will. I have 2 Parker tuned beams here that I use all the time, I will stack it up against those....

 

[sparker]

It’s an interesting idea. The barrier to rotation however is greater for the wire through the hole than it us for the knife edge on the agate V-block.

 

[sparker]

One would have to get to a wire the diameter of a single thread of spider silk before they would be comparable.

 

[rlporter507]

The wire goes into a very small notch at each end of the tube, which is only the top half of a tube at each end. it is a full round tube only in the middle. Depending on how tight the wire is, which is controlled by a spring, it might not touch much in the middle.
It was posted over on cast bullets that its some kind of dental wire.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

Greetings,
Selling a NIB vintage Herters #5 Scale. Cast iron base marked “Patent Pending”. Great history piece.
$100.0 shipped.
John

super accurate. metal, glad I didn't see it in time. I darn sure would have bought this bad boy!!