DIY Tool identification needed?

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Pots. Mine's not quite the same as it doesn't have .300 etc. Just 9 - 26 on the top gauge and 1-8 if you flip it over. If I ever make jewellery (but I won't!) it would be useful for measuring silver wire - so I'll keep it. I could even turn it into a piece of jewellery - now that would be a conversation piece!
I've learnt so much today thanks to you all

[Bigmallly]

I thought the ball joint splitters were double leek dibbers.............so glad I put my teeth in before saying that.

[veggiechicken]

What ever they are, and how ever you say it, they both sound painful

[Potstubsdustbins]

Trouble is VC we are all metric now so wire comes in mm or parts there of.

Colin

[veggiechicken]

I'm willing to bet that I know a stash of non-metric wire within easy walking distance!
So much of our life went down the pan when we went metric. All those tools made redundant, and I don't mean the ones in my shed, but throughout Britain. Bit late in the day to moan about this but I'm a bit slow sometimes!!

[Potstubsdustbins]

A mate of mine an engineer paid over £800 for a set of slip gauges in imperial two years before the change. It was quite funny watching him convert metric drawings so he could still use his imperial measuring kit. It would literally have cost him £1000s to convert overnight. In fact I don't think he his fully converted even now.

Colin