Guess what this is a photo of!

[bethzaring]

something to do with installing a door or lock set?

 

[Buck]

Is it some sort of layout device?

 

[Andy M.]

Buck, what's a layout device?

Beth, no.

It's not a tool used to perform work (such as a hammer or saw), it's a device that performs a function.

 

[Buck]

By layout device I mean something used to transfer cutmarks or lines onto a workpiece such as a compass, chalk line, ruler, framing square, etc.

 

[Andy M.]

Thanks for the explanation. No.

 

[Buck]

Is it an optical device?

 

[Andy M.]

Only in the sense that you can see it.

 

[Renee Attili]

Used to keep windows or doors open?

 

[Buck]

When you turn the knob does the vertical arm move?

 

[miniman]

To me it looks like it jams in something. The top arm spring loaded to release with a button push. There also appears to be a point underneath. I just can't work out how it is used.

 

[Renee Attili]

Or is it used to figure out shoe sizes?

 

[sage™]

thread winder??

 

[Katie H]

Is it a device to help create bias binding?

 

[Andy M.]

You are an imaginative gang. An incorrect imaginative gang. Sorry.

 

[Buck]

Demons will haunt you until you give us some sort of clue.

 

[sage™]

take a number thingy?? tape dispenser ?

 

[YT2095]

is it to hold a door open, not quite as a Wedge per se but that little arm clicks down when the door has passed over it and locks into place so it can`t be closed again, until you reset it.

 

[Andy M.]

YT is skirting all around the truth.

There is a sound component to the device

 

[DawnT]

a metronome

 

[Andy M.]

Sorry, no.