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    What is it? Or, how do you make use of this (tool?)?

    Does anybody know what good the little item is in the bottom of the picture? The metal thinga-ma-jig?

    It wound up in my shopping bag last weekend....on sale......$8.

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    Just a guess - inside angle gauge?

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    It is for measuring angles on machined work. They also come in sets like this MYC_186-910.jpg
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    Lemme get this straight - you bought a tool with an unknown purpose?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Matthews View Post
    Lemme get this straight - you bought a tool with an unknown purpose?
    The rule I was taught is: If you see it, and you don't have it, you NEED it!

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    Is this a trick question?
    It appears to be an angle-setting gauge. You can set up your tools or jigs with it. It's clever in the sense that the angles are pre-set so they're probably good for calibration tasks, yet don't take up much space. The only downside is that they are small.

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    Heck yes, you can buy tools just because they are cool.
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    the one who dies with the most tools... wins. were I to limit myself to only tools I know how to use I would not stand a chance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike holden View Post
    The rule I was taught is: If you see it, and you don't have it, you NEED it!

    Mike
    And the best part is, after a few months when you totally forget what you've bought you open a box or a drawer, you see the tool and ask yourself: when did buy this?

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    David

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    I would have bought it in a minute, but I knew what it was. It can be a very valuable tool.
    You did pretty darn good for a blind purchase.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Matthews View Post
    Lemme get this straight - you bought a tool with an unknown purpose?
    Yes.

    HOw it happened was that I perused the Highland WW site before going down there, for sale items.

    It was an angle gauge on sale for $8. I thought it was a thread pitch gauge.

    When I got to HWW, Sidney-whom I have known forever, I just gave him my list to round up all the stuff I wanted. He was happy to do it. My knee was bothering me.

    I didn't look it over on way to cash register cause I was on my way to the Bathurst Estate.

    that;s the truth.
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    I have a whole toolbox (cabinet, middle and top) with tools I don't use........ Am I missing the initial questrion?

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    The worst part is when your wife see's a tool like that and asks YOU what it is for. You better have an answer, my wife already knows what a left handed blivet hook is.
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    We occasionally have an event at our house-I announce "it's a first use tool day!"
    of course, a happy occasion that a tool has been in fact used (purchased months/years before) for the first time
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    It's really bad when you forget you have it and 6 months later you buy another one because you don't remember you have one.
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