What Is This?

[Leviton]

What is this 1/16" thick tool?
My guess is some type of measuring/gauging device.

Any ideas?

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[RTM]

I imagine it’s for setting up a specific machine for sizing some obscure thing. You set the width of the opening with the left side, height with the right. Now just start measuring random things, see what fits. Too small for olives and eggs.

 

[The Cobbler]

I'm guessing for grading the size of something. measure the rods with the ushaped cutouts, the distance between the rods with the tapered part .

 

[RTM]

Wait, measure the height of the right hand arm, not the width. That’s a taper gauge looking thing, guessing those will be millimeters.

https://www.starrett.com/metrology/product-detail/270

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

We use a lot of screen cloth to size aggregates. The wire weaving companies give out for free simple guages to help measure screen openings and wire diameter. I usually just grab a tape. Here is one example, there is probably a similar application for your guage. Not sure how many I've lost over the years. Ed.

 

[RTM]

But yours look like it is a width taper, not a height like the other?

 

[larry_g]

But yours look like it is a width taper, not a height like the other?

The tapered leaf is for measuring the distance between two wires in a woven mesh. ( think screen door screen only with 3/8" wire.) Like the starrett tool you linked, you slide it into a space till it stops and then read the width of that space. In this case the distance between the wires in the screen.

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