The NuTone Built-in Scale: Who'd a thunk it?

[dalangdon]

As I might have mentioned, we have been putting a "powder room" in the basement of our house, and trying to be as cheap and cheerful about it as possible. As part of that, I was at the recycled building materials place today looking for a medicine cabinet, and I found this: The Nutone Built-in Scale. I've never seen or heard of one of these before. Needless to say, it was too campy not to buy.

Here it is, in its full and upright position

 

[dalangdon]

Here it is, ready for action....

excuse my stocking feet.

 

[perc-o-prince]

That's COOL!!!

I think I need one of those for our kitchen

Enjoy it and congrats!!

Rich

 

[dalangdon]

It's ready for its close-up

Stylish little scale with very little wear. A rather strange novelty, if you ask me.

 

[gadgetgary]

Glenn

Way Kewl!

P.S. Don't worry about your SF

 

[58limited]

Neat item!

 

[JerseyMike]

How cool! Everyone home should have one!

Wow, Dan. You never cease to amaze me with your ability to find the coolest things. (The Flairs, the wall mounted fridge, the Tappan, that blue princess phone, etc., etc.) Every time you find something, I usually turn green with envy and say to myself "I want one of those!"

I can't wait to see what you come up with next!

Mike

 

[dalangdon]

The funny thing is, I almost passed it over because at first I thought it was a tampon machine, then I thought it was a baby changing table

 

[scott55405]

That's very cool, Dan! They sure had an array of cool items in their day.

 

[appnut]

Well I'll be darn. I seen those in a few houses over the years. I had no idea it was a scale. I thought it was some space-age bathroom heater.

 

[petek]

Aw Dan, Didn't I tell you how much I really love you. You've installed it already

 

[hydralique]

Too Cool!

Gotta love NuTone! Those guys figured out how to build in stuff that one shouldn't even be able to build in.

It's a good thing poor old Francine Fishpaw didn't have one in "Polyester", 'cuz we wouldn't have had that wonderful scene of her kicking the scale back under her bed when the dail swung past the 300 mark and back to zero . . .

 

[jasonl]

If walls could talk

Hey, that's a nice vintage scale. Is it accurate?

 

[retromom]

WOW - How Cool is That!!

I have never seen anything like it before! What a novel, space-saving idea! I can't imagine anyone getting rid of that scale, but I'm glad you picked it up Dan! It looks great!

So....have you tried it out yet? As Jason asked, "is it accurate"?

 

[gansky1]

What a fun non-electric appliance for the bathroom - leave it to Nutone! Good save, Dan.

 

[jamiel]

I had one in my 1955 tract house near Chicago (Arlington Heights)---in the bathroom wall along with a built-in clothes hamper. That was an extremely sensible 1100 square foot house...crawl space, but the water heater and furnace were in a utility closet off the bathroom with a louvered door--never a need for an exhaust fan or air freshener---zoop...up the malodor went!

 

[dalangdon]

To answer Jason and Retromom: The scale is accurate. Too damn accurate. I wouldn't mind if it took a few pounds off, but no.... ;-)

 

[retromom]

LMAO Dan! At least the scale is hidden!

 

[tomturbomatic]

This would be far more useful mounted on refrigerator or freezer doors than stupid video screens and other high tech stuff. I still would like to see a scale with sound effects (like groans, animal noises: pigs, elephants etc., screams and pained shouting of phrases like "Have you no mercy?" and "Good God, I think a cow is trying to use me as a step stool!" and "One of you has to step off before the pressure causes a fire." or "Hey! Put it in reverse and back off. This is not a truck scale.") that would get progressively louder as the user's weight increased over their desired weight.