Scissor tool for laying out railing post spacing

[nuno115]

Hello,

I don't know the name of it, so I took pictures, we use this for the fabrication of railings, it makes it faster to mark where the pickets are going. A worker brought this in, he has this already for over 15 years.
Thanks

[BrianMick]

I would think you could make one pretty easy
Brian

[BrianMick]

here I drew the parts just size to fit and assemble
Brian

scissors tool.dxf

[tnbndr]

Is that called a pantograph? or similar anyway.

[nuno115]

Thank you for the drawing and the name.
Still cannot find anything similar, but I will keep searching.
I will probably try to make one.

[SignTorch Vector Art]

could be called a scissor gate or expandable barrier

[muzza]

I had an older tradesman worked for me years ago that had one he used whenever marking out lobster back bends, he referred to it as a geometric divider. When he left we had the apprentice make a couple for shop use, especially for marking out rivet spacing, pretty sure our ones had 13 tips to provide 12 spaces.

[redneckgateart]

Looks a lot like an adjustable rivet spacer....I got mine from aircraftspruce dot com. They've got a 10-hole and a 20-hole model. I think the 20 hole model will expand up to 36". They work great!

[CNCCAJUN]

These guys got the best . . . .


http://www.woodpeck.com/mpowerp2p.html


Steve

[nuno115]

These guys got the best . . . .


http://www.woodpeck.com/mpowerp2p.html


Steve

Steve, thank you, just bought 5 of those....they might go extinct

[nuno115]

Found these ones,

http://ljsmith.com/products.aspx?catego ... product=38

[nuno115]

Ok, I found the company that sells them http://djaimports.com, the previous ones that we bought are not that good, this and the split dimensions is not as good as the original one, this is the link to the catalog, the tool costs 160.00. its solid and made out of stainless steel.

http://djaimports.com/catalog/online_catalog.php

page 168

Its called a PICKET SPACING TOOL $160.00

Thank you everyone for your help.