Profile Gauges

[ROG888]

Where can I buyor hire a large profile gauge??
I am a very desperate DIY'er.

Many thanks

Paul Rogers

 

[big-all]

what are you trying to copy paul

big all

 

[ROG888]

Trying to get the profile of a sink!!! Need to cut MDF board to fit under sink. Not having much fun!!!!

 

[big-all]

not exactly shure whether you mean horizontal or verticle
[not that it matters]why not cut a bit of cardboard to the
offending shape and copy that onto the mdf which should
be thoroughly sealed to stop it blowing when wet

big all

 

[Jasonb]

Assuming the sink is not handed, lay it upside down and mark around it, then mark a line inside this by the required amount which should not be too hard. I doubt that you will find a gauge the size of a sink even a very small wash hand basin.

Jason

 

[AdamW]

What about using a flexicurve?

Ask any draftsmen or old-school engineers you might know. Proper engineers who smoke pipes, have drawing boards and own dogs with politically incorrect names (we've all seen The Dambusters!)

Alternatively you could just buy one. I believe they even sell them in WHSmiths. It looks like a length of plastic, about a centimetre by a centimetre. You bend it and it keeps the form until you bend it elsewhere.

 

[sparkyfrog]

Contact the sink manufacturer, they may have a drawing available.

 

[TexMex]

Ask any draftsmen or old-school engineers you might know. Proper engineers who smoke pipes, have drawing boards and own dogs with politically incorrect names (we've all seen The Dambusters!)

I used to have one of those and I used to smoke a pipe. My dog was called Butch. If he had been a female I would probably have changed the "u" to an "i" . Yes, you're right, flexicurves are available at WHSmiths (or were, last time I looked) and just about any craft shop.

Why not take it as a challenge to work out how the thing was drawn in the first place. Take wild guess, and offer up a reconstruction, and then refine your assumption till you get it right. It may take longer, but imagine how impressed your friends will be when you casually say, "course, I noticed straight away, that the front of the sink forms part of an ellipse with a major axis of 39cm and a minor axis of 27cm"