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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 697167, member: 5833"]Is the silvery piece I'm going to call the spatula, that sticks off to the side, attached to the larger gear, so that the 2 go round together? Or are they independent of each other? Could the 'spatula' stay in place while the gears turn? It has been suggested to me that the purpose was to scribe a circle onto something as part of a manufacturing process that required holes made in a uniform way. Question is how motion was imparted to gears.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it something FIL used in his lifetime? Inherited? Bought as a whatsis in a junk shop?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 697167, member: 5833"]Is the silvery piece I'm going to call the spatula, that sticks off to the side, attached to the larger gear, so that the 2 go round together? Or are they independent of each other? Could the 'spatula' stay in place while the gears turn? It has been suggested to me that the purpose was to scribe a circle onto something as part of a manufacturing process that required holes made in a uniform way. Question is how motion was imparted to gears. Is it something FIL used in his lifetime? Inherited? Bought as a whatsis in a junk shop?[/QUOTE]
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