What is this?

[throbscottle]

Sorry no photos - it was something I saw used on a shed-construction video I watched a few years ago. The thing looked like several rulers joined together - adjustable angles and possibly able to slide as well, like 2 connected diamonds. They used it to copy/reverse the angles needed for the roof supports and the ends of the posts that held them up. Like a sliding bevel on cocaine...

Can someone name this gadget for me? It looked a useful piece of kit!

 

[graham88]

https://www.screwfix.com/p/magnusson-angle-measurer/8451v

One of these?

 

[Sideways]

Bora Miterix ?

 

[throbscottle]

First one maybe, second one no. I think it was more like 2 crosses, or 2 diamonds joined at the ends to there was a cross in the middle. But maybe I'm just imagining extra parts. I don't think it had actual angles marked on it.
Am I going to have to watch hundreds of shed builds until I find the right one?

Both things look very useful anyway!

 

[Doug71]

Maybe one of these?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MAVURA-Tem...sprefix=adjustable+tile+temp,aps,1316&sr=8-57

Or this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Measuring-...&sprefix=adjustable+tile+temp,aps,1316&sr=8-8

 

[throbscottle]

Possibly more like the yellow one but I'm not sure now. I don't think theirs had such a lot of flexibility. Is there something more like the Magnusson one but where the arms cross?

Sorry to be a pain, it's been sat in the back of my head all this time and decided to surface when I was looking at speed squares!

 

[Doug71]

Roofing Square?

https://www.essential-carpenter-tools.co.uk/store/p/ultimate-roofing-square-6975m

 

[throbscottle]

Well I'd been looking at the fixed triangular ones, but yes, that is their original purpose.

 

[Chubber]

Doe it look like 2 pairs of hacksaw blades joined in a square with a longer one across a diagonal?