A gunner's quadrant could make a fine construction tool.
But it has the word gun in is so it's gotta be bad.

On 4/20/2012 8:54 PM, Joseph Sullivan wrote:
> Aw, gee.  That wasn't politics. The old USSR is long dead.  It was a witty
> comment, no more political than joking about corruption in the Grant
> administration.  Some of you guys need to fertilize and cultivate your
> senses of humor.  Or is humor prohibited on the porch these days?
>
> And, while it might be a gunner's quadrant, we have been known to differ
> over identification...
>
> I haven't a clue what it is.  Probably a gunner's quadrant...
>
> J
>
> Joseph Sullivan
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oldtools-bounces@r...
> [mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of Thomas
> Schilling
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:19 PM
> To: oldtools@r...
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] Re: Mystery inclinator - help needed!
>
> We all know that...Politics has no place on the porch.
>
> It has already been established that it is not a woodworking related tool. A
> porch member has stated that it is a "gunner's quadrant".
>
> So again, let's leave the politics at home, or on a political blog.
>
> T.A.S.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq"<rohrabacher@e...>
> To:<oldtools@r...>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 6:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] Re: Mystery inclinator - help needed!
>
>
>> It gets worse. Everything he builds with it will belong  to other people.
>>
>> On 4/20/2012 5:28 PM, Thomas Conroy wrote:
>>> That's Russian, surely? Some language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet,
>>> anyway. I don't know Russian, but I recognize the second letter beneath
>>> the little crown on the left, and the sort of upside-down L over toward
>>> the right.
>>>
>>> Tom Conroy
>>>
>>> Ian wrote: "I recently came into posession of a heavy-duty brass(?)
>>> inclinator type tool... Can anyone tell me what this is exactly, and what
>>> the inscription says - and therefore what language it's in?
>>>
>>> http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/7/7/5/0/9/8/webimg/566438906_o.jpg
>>>
>>> http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/7/7/5/0/9/8/webimg/566438973_o.jpg
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