quick and dirty tillering gizmo

[stuckinthemud]

I've been taking my current project to work on in my lunch breaks and needed a tillering gizmo in a hurry with no materials to make one from, so, I made one up from whatever I had lying around. It worked out so well I just had to post it here. It's just a pen pushed through two slits in a rectangle of scrap card I had in my work bag!  In an effort to avoid advertising I've inverted the image but if it contravenes site rules I'll take the post down.

[Eric Krewson]

I like it!

In Germany they went all out with a typically over engineered version of a gizmo, it sure is pretty but won't work a bit better than yours.

[FilipT]

Probably made by Mercedes Benz.

[DC]

I guess it will do in a pinch but I wouldn't trust that pencil to stay in exactly the same spot while I was using it or when it was bouncing around on my bench.

[PatM]

I think the two edges are hooked over each other, setting the protrusion.

[stuckinthemud]

I found I could pinch the pen against the card to stop it moving.  It is only one to make do when nothing better is available but it did it's job remarkably well.

[Eric Krewson]

Here is another neat one a guy posted that he made on a 3D printer.

[ohma2]

Hey you made do with what you had and thats cool.
i like the spin offs of ericks original.

[Pat B]

Necessity is the mother of invention!     When in a pinch, do what ya gotta do.