Oh Dad - Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**newattitude** · 07-27-2011, 06:41 PM

so my mom and I got to talking about weighing scrap while out making a run one day (She loves to go with me!) and she told me my dad had an old scale - the kind that used the weights but she thought it was at their other house that my one brother still lives at. Went there Sunday hoping to pick it up and guess what?? Brother told me my dad had given it away years ago to one of the neighbors!!

Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Double face palm with some forehead against the wall thrown in for good measure*

**injunjoe** · 07-27-2011, 07:54 PM

Bummer.

I use a regular bath scale. It was imposable to see the dial when I had a trash can on it so I took Styrofoam blocks, 4"x 4"x 10", one on each side of scale then took plywood with a big U shape cut out and put on top. Now I can put any size can or big stack of ACR coils on the scale and still read the dial.
Just remember to zero it out.

**zakmattingly** · 07-28-2011, 01:10 AM

Just bought me a digital fish scale on Amazon for 10 bucks. 88lb max and shows decimal points. This'll be good for non-ferrous metals since the scale at my yard doesn't show partial pounds. Plus anything that I wanna sell will be weighed out to figure scrap value then doubled. If it doesn't sell it gets scrapped. Can't wait for it to get here so I can start saving and making more money.

**wayne1956** · 07-28-2011, 09:03 AM

Keep an eye out for a good used Detecto scale, like they have in a doctors office. They are accurate, and are very versitile for weighing scrap. I found one and have used it many times.