What is this? I almost remember what it is, but I can't quite name it. I know the top one is called a "Ruler" because it rules over all the other items on a desk. What's the other one?
jerryc41 wrote:
What is this? I almost remember what it is, but I can't quite name it. I know the top one is called a "Ruler" because it rules over all the other items on a desk. What's the other one?
Ah! What happened to the picture?! I'll post it again.
Glass Plug fuse puller. Like the old fashioned ones in cars years ago.
The long end is for more modern ones used in todays cars.
Keep it in your glove box or tool box in your car. I no longer carry a tool box with me cause I probably won't be able to fix anything anyway. My cell phone and a credit card fixes everything.
But my fuse puller and some spares are in the glove box.
Ron
Bottom one looks an awful lot like the part of my "featherboard" that runs in the mitre slot of my table saw. There are two screws that go through this part, with knobs on top of the assembly. Tighten knobs and the screw heads cause this part to expand slightly and lock the part in the mitre slot so the featherboard stays put.
gleneric wrote:
Bottom one looks an awful lot like the part of my "featherboard" that runs in the mitre slot of my table saw. There are two screws that go through this part, with knobs on top of the assembly. Tighten knobs and the screw heads cause this part to expand slightly and lock the part in the mitre slot so the featherboard stays put.
Ah, I think you're on to something!
EDIT: I looked through the DeWalt manual, and there's nothing like that. It must be from a tool, though.
It's a "Cootie Picker". Back when we were in elementary school, the boys thought that the girls had "cooties". When we moved up to high school we guys thought that the girls were "cuties".
jerryc41 wrote:
Ah, I think you're on to something!
EDIT: I looked through the DeWalt manual, and there's nothing like that. It must be from a tool, though.
Jerry: I'm now 100% certain about my original response. I went down to my workshop and flipped over the featherboard and there it is
MrMophoto
Loc: Rhode Island "The biggest little"
I had a shop teacher MANY years ago that refused to call the top item a "ruler", he said that's someone who rules a country. he insisted everyone call that item a "stick of inches"
clint f.
Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa
gleneric wrote:
Bottom one looks an awful lot like the part of my "featherboard" that runs in the mitre slot of my table saw. There are two screws that go through this part, with knobs on top of the assembly. Tighten knobs and the screw heads cause this part to expand slightly and lock the part in the mitre slot so the featherboard stays put.
I have several of them for table saw and router table feather boards.
MrMophoto wrote:
I had a shop teacher MANY years ago that refused to call the top item a "ruler", he said that's someone who rules a country. he insisted everyone call that item a "stick of inches"
If I remember correctly it was my English teacher that said it's a "rule" not a "ruler".
gleneric wrote:
Jerry: I'm now 100% certain about my original response. I went down to my workshop and flipped over the featherboard and there it is
YES!!! That's it. I have the same thing or something nearly the same. Now I can bring that out to the garage where it belongs. Thanks for that!
Abo wrote:
If I remember correctly it was my English teacher that said it's a "rule" not a "ruler".
I could never understand that. It's not a rule - as in a law. Of course, it's not a ruler, either. Things get stuck with odd names. I guess people want a word that's not too long. Imagine calling it "a stick to measure things in inches." Even "measuring stick" is too long.
In French
ruler → puissant
ruler → souveraindominateur
ruler → règle
Spanish
1. (= person) gobernante mf
(= monarch) soberano (soberana) m/f
2. (for measuring) regla f
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