Name of tool

[Aniest]

I need to know the exact name of this tool.
Laser for picatinny.
Thank you for your help

I have used one of these long ago. I used it as an adjustable picatinny alignment tool, or a way to centre punch the screw holes on the picatinny to align with a barrel. There should have been a 'card' device to attach to the muzzle that came with it, identical to the ones that come with a laser level.

First, you can attach it to something like this (random internet photo) and then adjust the screws on both sides of the rails to align with the barrel.

You can also take a barrelled action and use it to help align custom holes in the action, to ensure that a bore laser (or eye-ball'n it) and this laser align with the center line on the action. If they don't it could mean there is a bent barrel or a not-square thread/attachment into the action. It's good for the 'quick verifying check' to other more accurate tools and methods.

At least that is the way I used it.

 

[vangualarien]

I have used one of these long ago. I used it as an adjustable picatinny alignment tool, or a way to centre punch the screw holes on the picatinny to align with a barrel. There should have been a 'card' device to attach to the muzzle that came with it, identical to the ones that come with a laser level.

First, you can attach it to something like this (random internet photo) and then adjust the screws on both sides of the rails to align with the barrel.

You can also take a barrelled action and use it to help align custom holes in the action, to ensure that a bore laser (or eye-ball'n it) and this laser align with the center line on the action. If they don't it could mean there is a bent barrel or a not-square thread/attachment into the action. It's good for the 'quick verifying check' to other more accurate tools and methods.

At least that is the way I used it.

Do you know th exact name?

 

[wasrupzuk]

I have one of these, bought when lasers were a fairly new concept to the retail world.
I think I might have bought it at Lee Valley, not really sure though.
It wasn’t for firearms or picatinny rail but for construction as it clamped on a standard bubble level to shoot a level line.
It was pretty handy at the time.

 

[guntech]

Maybe it was simply called a laser... lol

 

[Aniest]

Do you know th exact name?

I believe it was called the Laser Aim Gunsmith's Laser Line.

It was decades since I used it, and it wasn't mine, so that's best I can recollect.

 

[AikiNut]

Well... Hmm. It looks to me like a laser attached to something to mount on a scope rail while you're putting the rail on the rifle. I THINK the process might be - put in a bore-sighting laser and point it at the wall. Mount the pictured device on the scope rail and (assuming the laser is aligned with the rail), mount the rail on the rifle so it lines up with the spot from the bore-sighter. Mark, Drill, Tap, mount the rail and the scope should be closely aligned with the bore. Otherwise - isn't that why you can put an indicator on a milling machine? make sure things are straight?

Edit: That's what you get when you don't read the whole thread... Aniest (above) seems to have the answer

 

[guntech]

Well... Hmm. It looks to me like a laser attached to something to mount on a scope rail while you're putting the rail on the rifle. I THINK the process might be - put in a bore-sighting laser and point it at the wall. Mount the pictured device on the scope rail and (assuming the laser is aligned with the rail), mount the rail on the rifle so it lines up with the spot from the bore-sighter. Mark, Drill, Tap, mount the rail and the scope should be closely aligned with the bore. Otherwise - isn't that why you can put an indicator on a milling machine? make sure things are straight?

You don't know if it fits on a scope rail or on a topedo level. We have not see the bottom of it... if it does fit on a scope rail it is a fairly crude laser sight with crude screw adjustments.