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Message 1571281 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 2:50:27 UTC

Would a thing like that help weigh me down
in a steadying way?
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Message 1571285 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 2:55:41 UTC

Celt, you mean like ballast in a ship?
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Message 1571288 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 2:57:09 UTC

Oh, is that what they call it then?
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Message 1571319 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 4:17:13 UTC

A ballast from a fluorescent light fixture (and they still look like that inside).


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Message 1571329 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 4:49:50 UTC

Good get John........
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Message 1571589 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 18:50:58 UTC

OK, back in a bit.


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Message 1571604 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 19:08:06 UTC
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OK, what is it?



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Message 1571615 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 19:28:24 UTC

A vernier measuring device?

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Message 1571618 - Posted: 13 Sep 2014, 19:30:38 UTC

Something to measure something...
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Message 1571716 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 0:41:28 UTC

You are not just stringing us along are you?
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Message 1571722 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 0:48:15 UTC - in response to Message 1571615.  

A vernier measuring device?

Not really.


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Message 1571723 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 0:48:26 UTC - in response to Message 1571618.  

Something to measure something...

Yes


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Message 1571724 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 0:48:42 UTC - in response to Message 1571716.  

You are not just stringing us along are you?

Really not.


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Message 1571725 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 0:49:45 UTC

Is it used in the garment industry?
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Message 1571731 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 1:23:42 UTC - in response to Message 1571725.  

Is it used in the garment industry?

It could have been, but that is not the only possible use.


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Message 1571732 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 1:25:58 UTC

Some sort of depth micrometer
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Message 1571739 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 1:56:20 UTC - in response to Message 1571732.  

Some sort of depth micrometer

No.


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Message 1571790 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 7:26:05 UTC

strain gauge
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Message 1571872 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 14:26:21 UTC

Tensiometer of some sort.

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Message 1571948 - Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 19:21:57 UTC

Portable hardness gauge?
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