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I've come across this:-

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from https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08WXFDRBX/.

It says it's is for woodworking, but the vernier is marked into 2' segments. That seems a little too accurate for wood, and of course the description could very well be wrong. I could envisage this in a machinist's shop. And the associated photos suggest an engineering use, not carpentry.

So what's it do and how could it be used..?

Paul Uszak
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    works like a micrometer ... it measures the angle of the wedge shaped opening at bottom right ... right now it is showing an angle of 3 degrees 6 minutes – jsotola Jan 13 '22 at 18:07
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    Def. looks like a machinist's tool. Looks like a sort of vernier protractor, with the addition of the adjustable offset, which allows precise measurements of "trapezoidal" shapes – Pete W Jan 13 '22 at 20:33

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I've never seen one but it looks fairly intuitive.

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Figure 1.

  1. The base.
  2. Vertical adjust thumb screw. Release to move the measuring arc away from the base edge to accommodate the thickness of the article to be measured.
  3. Angle adjust thumb screw. Release to allow adjustment of the arc to accommodate the slope of the item being measured.
  4. The zero mark gives the whole number of degrees.
  5. The Vernier scale gives the number of minutes. See Figure 2.
  6. Horizontal adjustment if the base needs to be retracted.

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Figure 2. Reading the Vernier scale.

  1. The zero line on the Vernier is indicating a reading of just over 3°.
  2. The closest alignment between the main arc degrees scale and the Vernier minute scale is at 6'.

The readout is 3° 6'.

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