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Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2019 1:05 pm**

This has been lurking in my spare parts - could anyone identify its use? Thanks Cheers Bill K

Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2019 3:45 pm**

I would guess a carpenter's scribe attachment.

James.

Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2019 5:51 pm**

Part of a Beam Compass- used to draw large circles:

http://collectingme.com/drawing/Quick_S ... mpass.aspx

Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:12 pm**

Thanks for the responses - hard for me to accept that odd looking parts with what looks like a needle are not phono related.

Cheers Bill K

Posted: **Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:43 pm**

Yep. Beam compass parts.

Worked 25 years as a draftsman, all before computers.

chuck

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