Shop find!!!!!

waco

Springfield, Oregon
I thought I must have sold these years ago. They have been MIA for years and years. Just found them today out in the shop buried deep on a back shelf. Theses were my uncles and have a ton of sentimental value to me. He bought them back in the 70’s I’d guess. It’s what I learned on. SO happy to have found them!!!4C1DD8CA-7B42-48D3-8B6D-37A747EB4CE3.jpeg
 

Walks

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I bought one new just like that, new in 1974. Still use it. It's my fall back to check the Electronic Scale & Powder Measure/scale.

I learned on an ancient Redding #1, "Paddle" scale.
My Dad gave it to me shortly before He passed. Still accurate, but a bit messy.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Hard to beat the Ohaus designed balance beam scales and the 10-10 was one their best. I've never owned a digital powder scale. Have a Ohaus Dial-O-Grain 3100 and a 1950ish Redding #1.

Always love finding things (tools especially) that I lost or thought I must have sold or given away decades ago.
 

Rick H

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I have a "Modern" RCBS 505, and for backup a "Herter's Model Perfect Magnetic Dampened Balance Beam Scale".......and they both work as well today as they did 40 years or more ago. (Oh My that Herter's was purchased new in 1970...LOL)
I do have a small battery operated jewelers scale that I use when I am feeling OCD and need to weigh a batch of bullets or cases, but all my powder weighing is done the old fashioned way......using a balance scale.
 
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fiver

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I keep a couple of balance beam scales as backup's.
one is from god knows when/where, it's brown and not marked.
after I cleaned it up and lightly touched up the balancer edges it does what it was designed to do.
 

Uncle Grinch

Active Member
That reminds me.... I’ve got an old Redding oil dampened powder scale and an RCBS powder trickier that is “lost” in my shop somewhere.
 

Walks

Well-Known Member
My Electronics were both gifts.
Otherwise the 10-10 would be it. Along with a scale weight check kit, what more could you want ?
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
I have the Lyman sisters of that scale , the M3 . I bought mine from Quillbillie I think , but I have my Dad's and Grandfather's on the shelf . Grandpa's is in it's original box with all the paperwork , circa 1968.
 

fiver

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Quillbillie,,,, haven't heard that name in years.
I met him and his wife 6-7 years back, both super nice people.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
My powder scale is an oldie-but-goodie Ohaus 505, bought in 1976. It is among my oldest reloading tools, and by far the oldest that still gets regular usage. It remains faithfully accurate, and I have Lyman check-weights to verify it from time to time. Right on the money, just dust off the agate bearings and balancer blades before each use and all is well. I have two electronic scales, but don't trust them for weighing charges--they are OK for scaling bullets when I am feeling uber-OCD-ish (not frequent). Bought 2/3 of a lifetime ago. Yowza.
 
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CWLONGSHOT

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I still use my 10-10 to this day after 30 years plus ....I have and likely always will. Love the accuracy and don't feel a need to move to an electronic
Ill also never use electronics for powder. I have a couple they are useful for sorting bullets or weighing cases. But a good beam scale is required on my loading bench.
I cringe watching videos on utube where guys use only electronics.
Electric fields that we cannot see can effect them. Just your light can effect them. Many run on batteries and fluctuations in voltage can effect them.
A good beam scale needs be level and free of wind currents. Mine is on its cubical shelf, with trickler beside, at eye level at back of the bench. (Where it should be)
 
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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Nice find! I have my old Redding with no dampening other than my finger, the first I bought, that I still trust more than the dampened scales. I alao have a magnetically dampened RCBS, not sure which model and an Ohaus "Dial-o-gram" which I thought was a "Dial-o-Grain" under all the dust at the auction. Very nice scale but having to do the math limits it's use for me personally.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Those 10-10s are good scales. My primary scale is a 5-0-5 that came with my first reloading kit circa 1992. It endured an acid fume event in storage but with a little cleanup still works perfectly. Got another one that is older (light green paint instead of the "hammered" green/silver) but pretty much NIB a few years ago for a really good price as a backup.
 

david s

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Thought I would try a photo. The scales a RCBS hybrid 1/2 of a 5-0-5 and 1/2 of a 10-10. The base is a 5-0-5 but the balance beam is from the 10-10 with the spin adjustable 1/10 grain adjustment. It's marked 5-10 just under the RCBS marking in black. I do have an electrical scale that I bought after knocking this one off it's shelf (exactly what your not supposed to do) hard enough to damage the plastic adjustment foot. A bit of epoxy fixed the foot but I didn't know if I had damaged anything else so purchased an electrical scale to cross check the 5-10 with. I didn't have to worry the two scales measured exactly the same. I purchased this when first setting up for reloading in the early 1980's. It still gets used regularly when working up loads,