What do you call this ?

wookie · Oct 29, 2013

Hi

I'm having a mental block and can't remember what this is called... arrrgh... help....

Tiggy_dorset · Oct 29, 2013

DTI stand/base?

Paul. · Oct 29, 2013

Its a scribe block,
also called scriber block, and scribing block.

ronan · Oct 29, 2013

Height gauge alternatively ?

Bede · Oct 29, 2013

Scribing block.

500e · Oct 29, 2013

ENGINEERS SCRIBING BLOCK / SURFACE GAUGE
With ground base usually hardened

chunkolini · Oct 29, 2013

A potentially useful jig.
Worth about 50p.
Give you a quid for it.

dannyp · Oct 29, 2013

pointy thing holding thing

bigbadbugga · Oct 29, 2013

A table

gordon stephenson · Oct 30, 2013

By far the most common term is surface gauge.

ronan · Oct 30, 2013

Surface gauge was the term i was looking for, i wouldn't mind but i made one during my apprenticeship so i should have known, D'OH.

Dev · Oct 30, 2013

chunkolini said:
A potentially useful jig.
Worth about 50p.
Give you a quid for it.

And if its sitting on an ugly flat metal topped table ill take that off you for a fiver. :whistle:

Bede · Oct 30, 2013

Christ, yeah, surface gauge. Takes me back to my apprenticeship!

wookie · Oct 30, 2013

Thanks guys, I knew I could count on you...

My cousin bought it at a car boot for a quid and then asked me what it called and my mind went blank.

Paul. · Oct 30, 2013

wookie said:
My cousin bought it at a car boot for a quid

Bargain..... surface gauge, scribe block, scribing block, and scriber block are all correct names,
here's one of its uses.