What is this tool used for?

[AlexS]

What do you think this tool might be used for? A greenie for the correct answer & any witty ones.

[Optimark]

A white fella's Woomera!

Mick.

[bitingmidge]

Alex, I could have done with a pair of those a few years ago. Might have saved me breaking my wrist.

They are walking sticks for rollerbladers.

P
:rolleyes:

[Bob Willson]

You only have half the tool there. You need two of them
They are usually sold through glass climbing stores for climbing the glasshouse mountains near bitingmidge and rocker.
Thje idea is that you reach up with the first one and slap it onto the glass as high as you can reach; pull yourself; up; and then slap the other one on as high as you can reach again.
So far, they do not have a really high survival rate as the slapees tend to tire around 100 metres and let go of the sticks thereby causing gravity to cut in to its full effect and cause the climber to precipitately fall down the precipice.

[craigb]

Bum crack scratchers aren't they?

[Christopha]

You theivin' mongrel! Thems the arrers frum the speshul round the corner shootin' bow what I inventerated a wile bak!

[Harry72]

Any thing to do with window tinting?
Or is it a great new game... trap the fly on the wall!

[MICKYG]

Alexs,
It appears to be a homebrewed device for installing flywire or flymesh to screens and screen doors.

Regards Mike ;)

[AlexS]

Make it & they will come...with all sorts of brilliant ideas as to what it is. :confused:

It isn't any of the above. Will post pics of the tool in use on Monday. In the mean time, keep those guesses coming.

[ozwinner]

Golf ball pickeruperer??


Al :confused:

[Sturdee]

I think it is a scribing tool to accurately mark the wall against say a benchtop.


Peter.

[namtrak]

Either a homemade jig for scoring circles on boards or a homemade Remora fish for a really really cheap fishtank?

[AlexS]

Here 'tis.
I had to cut a number of small triangles with bevelled sides, and rather than risk losing my fingertips, I made up this little doover.

It's made from a plastic foot that you put on the end of table legs etc, attached to a piece of scrap ply. When held firmly in the position shown, the plastic holds the piece flat and in the jig while cutting the bevel.

Thanks for all the witty resposes - greenies have been despatched.

[Iain]

What an ingenious little device, Sturdee will have a major dummy spit now, or sue for breach of copyright :D :D :D :D

[Sturdee]

What an ingenious little device, Sturdee will have a major dummy spit now, or sue for breach of copyright :D :D :D :D

None of that Iain. Instead I offer my congratulations on a wonderful gadget.
Well done Alex.


Peter.

[Dan]

Even more interresting is what you're doing with a number of small bevel sided triangles, or is that to be disclosed next monday. :)

[AlexS]

All will become apparent in the fullness of time, Minister.

[Ivan in Oz]

C'Mon Alex,

They're 2-UP thrower-uppers.

Ivan