hombre_de_plata_flaco said:
I too bought a cheap Chinese digital scale off eBay to weigh my PM's. It works fine (for now). I really want an old set of triple beams made in the USA, but these will work for now.....
Yeah, you probably mean OHAUS triple beams. You better make sure it's a vintage one because the new ones have gone Chinese. Another one bites the dust.
Ohaus is one of the oldest and most well known scale brands. Jim Ohaus is an icon in the scale industry. Ohaus started with Mechanical balances such as the famous Ohaus Triple Beam. Ohaus was purchased by Mettler-Toledo in 1990. Mettler laid off many of the old Ohaus workers and shifted most Ohaus production to China (Originally all Ohaus scales were produced in the USA). This lowered quality and made many Ohaus fans unhappy because Ohaus became just another “Chinese” brand rather then an American Icon. Mettler appointed a new President of Ohaus – ironically the new President is from China and has taken steps to shift even more Ohaus production to China. However quality is back on the rise now that manufacturing has been moved to the Mettler China factory (earlier Chinese production was outsourced). Ohaus will soon cease (if it hasn't already) all USA manufacturing and basically become Mettler’s “Chinese made” brand of scales. It’s sad to see an old American brand become nothing but a nameplate.
