EXTREMELY Rusty Vintage Potato Scale HUGE RESTORATION
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- In this video I will be restoring large vintage potato sack scale from 1956. I purchased this from a farm with a full set of weights for only £35. As you will see in the video the quality starts at 1080p and jumps to 4K half way through tear down. I started this video over 6 months ago hence the change in video quality viewing experience. At the end of the video you will see that I “calibrated” the scale. However I managed to do this wrong. Due to the mosquitos coming out for dinner I rushed this part and managed to skip weighing the screws for the weights.
I hope you enjoy the video and subscribe for more restorations
Thanks for watching.
Brilliantly done, museum quality. Way back in the 60's for summer job as a kid I picked potatoes, cucumbers and string beans and the 'Boss' used a set of scales like this. I hated that darned machine, Ha! Liked and subscribed.
Thank you very much and welcome to the channel.
Very good Restoration
Thank you
I like your technique for doing the lettering. Thank you for sharing
Fantastic restoration. That set of scales is a fine-looking piece of old technology that will continue to work forever..... and it is cordless.
Thank you
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I'm so glad you didn't replace the wooden parts, and hsnd sanded too, the battle scars are part of its character and the linseed oil in the Danish feeds it so well. Nice job
The wood was just too amazing to replace. The battle scars really add to the character.
Finally, someone who knows how to apply paint to raised lettering!
Great deal on the scales, plus all the weights - that's better than scrap value, I think! And really well made.
Super job, well done!
Thank you. I actually learnt from a RUclips video. I still can’t believe how much I paid.
Wonderful job. One of your best restorations yet. After 64 years, these scales dont have any missing parts. Even all the weights are still there. I like the fact that you could reuse all the original pieces, except the cotter pins for the wheels. Even the wooden pieces are still good. By calibrating , these scales are still perfectly useful. One thing I've noticed about older pieces of cast iron equipment is that they tended to be more or less ornate. I think that's one way a manufacturer told the user he was proud of what he had built. Thanks . Please dont forget to post restorations of those nice-looking vises. Best regards from the USA.
Not cotter pins, Pat - split pins here in UK... cotter pins are wedged to take up slack in cranks.
Thank you. Iv never seen another scale with a complete set of weights. I was extremely fortunate. That’s why I love buying from farms.
well that turned out pretty magnificent, love the black/red finish. thanx for keeping the old stuff alive.
Thank you. I love bringing these old things back to life.
If I was a millionaire I would pay you what ever you wanted for that restored work of art! Amazing!
Thanks. I’m glad you like it as much as I do.
I used one of those in the 80s to weigh sacks of sand/ gravel at a builders merchants. Exact weight not needed just had to be heavier, then people were happy to be getting more for free. But you could be exact right down to the ounce and up to 28 stone. Made in Sherburn - in - elmet , north Yorkshire. Well assembled there castings made on mass in Sheffield. But they had many sites was a big business back then. A full set of weights is expensive. Great memories thank.
Thank for sharing. I believe the weights are worth more than the scale. I’m curious to know what this set is worth complete.
I tried to buy a large one in bad shape to use as a temporary anvil. Too much for me it sold for 35 plus tax but next to it was a mostly complete set down to ounces I walked away from the sale at 450 plus tax and it sold for more than that! Mad
Perfect job well done. Love the red black and gold..very smart
Thank you very much. Glad you like the combination.
don't know why, but certain old cast iron objects always look better when painted with a brush than spray painted, it gives it a lot more character i think. That truly is a lovley piece, well done.
Thank you. I really like the brushes look also. I can control the texture of the pain in different areas.
La balanza quedo lista para ir al mercado, felicitaciones !!! 🇵🇪
An outstanding bit of craftsmanship and patience. Thanks for taking the time to film and catalog your work. Cheers!
Thank you very much.
Beautifully done. Outstanding outcome. Bravo!
Thank you
Great Video, Fantastic Restoration. Most people do not realize how much work, time effort in to doing these items that you do. I really did not either till I started watching all the videos. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you very much. It sure does take a lot of work. Thanks for recognising.
@@mytinyworkshop1213 Your sovery Welcome. Please keep up the Awesome restoration Videos. We Love them.
The one I used while attending Uni in the early '70's was not as elaborate or in the now pristine shape as yours. A flat blue and rust unit at the former UCON Produce in Sugar City, Idaho. Set for 45.5Kg, I stood in front of a fast moving conveyor belt loaded with large baking potatoes, with three stations of bags to fill. As one filled, I moved a shuttle to fill the next bag, taking a filled bag and placing it on the scale, balance the filled bag, add a new bag on the empty station, ad infinitum for 4 hrs every afternoon. After 6 weeks I had arms like Popeye. Narragansett Bay
Very nice story, thanks for sharing.
Bravo! A fine, unique restoration that I've never seen before. Thanks so much and keep them coming.
Thank you. I’m trying hard to keep them coming.
Outstanding restoration.
Thank you
It turned out great. And you found where every one of those 500 pieces belonged when putting it back together!
Thanks. If you look at how I poured all the screws out you will see I kept separate piles. That’s how I managed to remember where things go.
Nicely done, sir. The best touches are the colors you used on the scale to make it look early 50's design, bravo sir, bravo indeed.
Thank you very much. I’m glad you liked the result.
Very nice restoration!!. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it
When I was a kid, there was one of these on every railway station. In those days you could send bulky and heavy stuff on local train services. There were even special RAILWAY STAMPS to purchase to show that the freight charge had been paid. There were special parcel vans which ran around the metropolitan system, otherwise the guard on the next passenger service would swoop it into the guards compartment regardless of the gross weight.
Things were different then!!!
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Great restoration, and a beautiful old scale. 👍👍👍
Thank you very much
Very good job
Thank you
Beautiful!!!
Lovely to get the weights with it as well. I’ve got one of the baby 8 oz ones I use as a paper weight. And a 56lb one that I lock the motor bike to!
I was shocked to get the whole set. It’s very rare
I just purchased 100 shares of WD-40 stock! Beautiful restoration....very British, I must say old mole. Best wishes and stay healthy.
Thank you very much. Hope your stocks do well. Glad you like it.
Nice job!
Thank you
Nice work
Thank you
Excellent work on a complicated project.
Thank you
I used to work for Avery in the 1970’s, I think a variation of this scale was still being sold. If the potatoes were being sold the scale would have been stamped by W&M. The bearings ensured great accuracy and very little to go wrong.
Thanks for sharing and watching
You find the coolest things to restore
Thank you
What a beautyfull Scale! Well done! I like the colors!
Thank you.
I absolutely love this restoration. The colour is perfect. You are so neat and organise. Well done
Thank you for such a nice complement. Glad you liked it.
Good work Done 👌
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Absolutely beautiful! Well done!
Thank you
You are a genius, one of your best restorations yet, your videos have spurred me into building my own little workshop, can't wait to start restoring bits and bobs 👌😫
Thank you very much. I’m itching for a bigger workshop. I’m so happy to be working outside. Enjoy your restorations.
@@mytinyworkshop1213 thank you, I will enjoy, just got to wait for some reclamation yards to open up near me, then I can get cracking 👌😎
What a beauty came out!
Thank you
Wow. Stellar job.
Thank you very much
A brilliant restoration MTW, your best yet, and quite a large piece to work on... good to see you getting some sunshine! Greetings from Southport.
Thanks very much. Glad you like it. It was so good to get out of the cramped workshop. The sunshine works wonders.
Like a phoenix from the ashes it rises again more beautiful than before ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you. Nicely said
Hi my friend 👋👋👋 I have not seen such antique scales ⚖️, they are just a bomb 💣 👍👍👍 a chic restoration 🔥👌🏽✌🏻🇷🇺
Thanks. I’m glad you like this one. I want to restore things people have never seen.
I never knew you kcould sandblast wood. I always thought it'd pit the wood too badly, cool thanks
nice work..i really enjoy watching, i wish that 1 day i have these tools and workshop to do such work
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it.
that looked like a lot of work. nice job
It sure was. But well worth it.
Beautiful restoration on a very cool machine! 👍🏼
Thank you
Beautiful work!
Thank you
very pleasant watch, thanks
Thank you very much. Glad you liked it
That was a thing of beauty before you started! Beautiful restoration. I remember our local greengrocer had a similar set when I was a lad. Not quite as pretty as those but functional enough.
Excellent work!!
Thank you
That’s a huge amount of work. Well done. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
Thank you. Glad you like it
Excellent job👍👍👍
Thanks
good job. would love to have such a scale. enjoy
Thank you.
What a beautiful machine. You restored it really well.Perhaps a company might buy it from you for display.
Thank you. I’ll only sell this if I’m desperate.
Well, the company still exists as Avery Weightronics
Love your choice of paint, mate. I reckon it's the best for cast iron. Good job. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you. I’m glad you like it
Amazing !!!
It was amazing seeing the stripped and blasted castings - the PRECISION of the part numbers and lettering is really good. Those boys really knew how to cast.
Semi-technical question - how sensitive are they; when balanced, what's the smallest weight that will unbalance them?
(judging by the washers when zero-ing, it's around 1/2 Oz)
They sure did know how to cast. I’d say you were right with the weight About 1/4 - 1/2 oz.
Awesome work & memory! I forgot what screw with where🤔! Everything looks great 💯🙋🏾♀️
You are a man with golden hands! Excellent restorations.
As a subscriber, it is interesting for me to watch and would cause more delight if you brought the details to a complete ideal: Smoothing even small irregularities, polishing to a mirror shine. How does that my mechanics
Brilliant job, Stay Safe !!!.
Bravo! I could not find a single flaw, in my opinion the work perfectly done.
Separately, I want to note that you have NOT painted or lubricated the prisms of the scales, but left them clean. You have NOT even painted the outer surface of the wheels. You did everything right to the smallest detail.
There is no video, but you probably calibrated the weights after cleaning and painting.
From wishes - maybe instead of red color it would be better to use Bordeaux color.
Very interesting historical scales. And these scales were lucky - they fell into your hands and you did a great job with them.
Thank you. I’m glad you couldn’t find any flaws. I’m still learning every day.
Beautyfull restoration,too much work i think,and the colors remind me old trains ,well done my friend !!!!
Thank you.
that is a top notch restoration MTW.
Thank you very much.
Hi Outstanding restoration and at £35 cheap too keep up the good work
Thank you. I always look for a bargain.
un ottimo lavoro .
Nice job. Subscribed.
Thank you. Welcome to the channel
Magnifique ! Now it is AVERY-BERKEL . Bravo.!
Thank you
@@mytinyworkshop1213 It's nothing,
I was looking for an old HOBART scale which comes from DAYTON bought by IBM then by HOBART which developed it.
I worked for Hobart Pesage in France and seeing you take apart the "knives" brought back memories.
Weighing in Europe closed because the group that bought HOBART already had a weighing company, so Hobart stayed at home in North America for the weighing and labeling groups and Avery Berkel in Europe for group and small scale.
Not really satisfied with this strategy because the service was profitable and Hobart was the "king" in France, we were called "the big house".
Avery Berkel did not achieve what Hobart did.
Here is the link to view the patent for the Hobart 2000 balance, you will quickly find the balance accompanied by a printer from NCR modified by Hobart.
.The calculator was all made by another company, so not shown in this patent.
Have a good day.
patents.google.com/patent/US3045229A/en
Great work!. Subscribed. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. Welcome to the channel
I really like that a lot!! You did a wonderful job restoring it!!!
Enjoyed your video and gave it a Thumbs Up
Thanks a lot. It was really fun doing this project.
The 1956 stamp is not necessarily the date of manufacture. It is the date on which it was checked by the weights and measures authorities. It might have been the year of manufacture, but not necessarily.
Thanks for the info.
I don't know if it is still the law, but in the old days if you were trading your scales and weights had to have a government stamp. So did any measures. It was (possibly still is) complete nonsense. It doesn't make dishonest traders honest but it does keep thousands of weights and measures inspectors snooping round checking on excise stamps. I used to have a 2 pound brass weight shaped like a bell. That had a Victorian stamp in the base. I suspect someone stole it. I don't have it any longer.
Bravo bel restauro
Thank you
Muy bueno !!! Te felicito
Thank you
I am curious to know how much mass was taken off the weights and if the restoration replaced equivalent mass. Just curious.
Wouldn’t have a clue.
Awesome job!! Definitely subscribing. I always like to learn new tricks and you taught me at least one. I would display that in the living room, the wife would arrange that as my new single living room. Lol. Could you show us where it ends up? Cheers
Welcome to the channel. Glad you liked the restoration. It has actually ended up in my living room next to my office desk.
so much sandblasting....god the patience of Job is with you
Perfeito...Parabéns...
Thank you
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A FIVE STAR RENOVATION ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you
You are most welcome my friend 👍
Superb job, looks amazing, dread to think how many hours you put into that.
Thanks. I can’t count that high. Just the sandblasting was 3-4 days. Including giving the compressor time to cool off.
Tool box filled with sockets and still uses an adjustable wrench ?
Can I ask how you decided on the paint scheme? Was it just personal choice or did you research the original livery?
It was personal choice. The original colour was just plain black.
Nice Job!! but when add the washers to balance it out you needed to have the screws add in!!
Yep your right. I was rushing at the end because all the mosquitos were coming out for dinner. Can’t believe I missed the final piece after all that work.
@@mytinyworkshop1213 If you look, you can undo ONE of the screws (the inner most one) and the weight tray just pivots out for access.#neat
I live 3miles from the Avery factory in foundry lane smethwick in the uk it is still there today
Very nice. It’s good to know they are still around.
Ficou perfeito.
Thanks
Did you take into account the attachment screws for the weights in the calibration? This look awesome after you finished it great job.
Hahah I was bound to miss something. I didn’t weigh the screw. Glad you liked it.
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So you use an adjustable spanner to strip the scales risking rounding the bolts off, but use a socket set & ring spanners to reassemble. Am I missing something here - ?
This video was started 6 months ago. I used what I had.
Great video. I have an identical set of sack scales that I also bought from a farm sale and wondered if you would be interested in restoring mine?
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Thanks for watching
Did you have the four screws added into weight?
I actually realised my mistake after the video was released. I was assembling it fast because I was being eaten alive my mosquitos. Hence the silly mistake.
@@mytinyworkshop1213 I love your channel
Thank you so much. I’m sorry I haven’t been uploading frequently. Hopefully I’ll have a video out this week. It won’t be a completely polished restoration, more like an introduction to an interesting tool.
Sandblasting weights makes me wince , too many years as a weights and measures inspector.
I only lightly sandblasted them to remove the heavy rust.
I would put all the parts in rust remover or in a vinegar for 24 hours the sandblasted all the parts
No matter what a paint can says, you should always lay down a coat of rustproof primer before painting your topcoat.
I want one
Glad you like it.
Very nice and thorough job on a very complicated item. Looks great. Now... when will we see you weigh those 🥔?
Thank you. Glad you liked it. I only had a bunch of tiny potatoes. Wouldn’t be impressive enough.
How is working this?
I showed a little demonstration at the beginning. Thanks for watching
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@@mytinyworkshop1213 Good luck
Speaking as someone who repaired and adjusted these things for real where was the testing so that they worked correctly? Pretty but not very accurate as a weighing machine. I'm sure you will say but its only cosmetic but why go to all that trouble and not do it right?
You sure that is 1956 and not 1856? Or that stamp means something else? That looks way too old to be from 1956. I could be wrong though
The original owner said his family got it in the 60s. The royal cypher ER means Elizabeth Regina (Latin for queen). It sure does look older though.
I thought that from the picture it was a toy forklift restoration 🤣
Hahaha. Iv made the picture bigger now. Hopefully people can see what it is.