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Well, you know how the S/SS racers like to hang their you-know-whats out. The ruler does seem a little small though. Maybe that ruler is just for the lower classes. :)


-Toby

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hey!!!!!

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Measuring Rollout in the Staging Beams?

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Jeff - Yep , I just turned it over and there is a quick reference chart on the back ..........

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They were designed to fit right in the rule book so tech guy could use it as a quick reference before looking through the book. the ruler on it was just there to have one more aid to help speed things up.
Have a stack of them in my shop somewhere.

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I'm going to guess that the height is used to measure the minumum ground clearance. A kind of "go/no go" gauge.

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It does look like it is 8" from end to end. Wonder why it doesn't read like that? Probably so when there was a complaint, they had a margin of error. ;)

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travis used it in the 1970's to measure bore & stroke... LOL

jack

current use is to measure how far we will take it up the a#%& before we revolt

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pre-stage is 7 inches before the stage beam

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Probably used for a book mark as well for the rule book . Seems like the rule book was close to that length