At 08:27 PM 5/24/2019, Ed Minch wrote:
>Hey Gâs
>
>SIL picked up a nice panel gauge at a local
>thrift store for $2. It had a cute brass bolt
>to hold position of the head, with a nicely
>let-in piece of bent brass sheet stock to bear
>on it, but it has an angled slot for wedge
>professionally filled in. So it has some history.
>
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/47926407981/in/dateposted-public/
>
>At one end it has a broken off pencil, but the
>other end is a little mystery. It has a nicely
>made hole, too big for a standard pencil, with
>another hole alongside too small for that pencil
>
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/47926402057/in/dateposted-public/
>
>Now for the question. If I turn the end with
>the 2 holes on its side, there is an obvious part of a wood joint there.
>
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/47926408163/in/dateposted-public/
>
>Any ideas what went on at this end?
A couple late Friday-night guesses:
1] The two holes and "wood joint" hold an extension to the arm in place
(ilel the holes are screw holes
that align with matched holes on the [missing]
extension piece; likewise, the end of the
[missing] extension piece was wedge-shaped to fit
into the "wood-joint" place)?
2] Alternately, the larger hole could hold a
sharp blade and a wedge -thus turning that end
into a long cutting gauge (that might explain the
gap in the end, giving it a little
"play" when the holding-wedge is driven in to hold the cutting-blade?
(3] Both?)
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