[PW] Subject: Identify A Mystery Object...

[Robert J. Bohland]

To:  Jeffrey Pomerantz
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
sils.unc.edu/~jpom
v: 919-962-8064
f: 919-962-8071

Jeff:  I think what you've shown next to the quarter is a metal guage:  You slide this onto a sheet of metal, usually steel, and where it stops at a number is the guage of steel the thickness of that metal sheet represents.

If it is not metal (or steel), it is still a guage for measuring the thickness of some material and converting that thickness into "guage numbers."

Hope this is useful.

Robert J. Bohland, CMfgE
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