Found it! This is for the gear indicator strip, yes?I'm sorry, I tried to figure it out but just can't seem to follow along
What is this business with the tape measure all about? What are you making with it?
You can buy rolls of shim stock from McMaster-Carr, but the only one that's 3/8" wide is only .002" thick. Definitely flexible enough but might not last very long.
This stuff is also shim tape, so it's got adhesive on one side...maybe you could cut two pieces to length and carefully stick them to each other's sticky sides? Use a paper hole punch to cut the hole(s) in the end(s).
https://www.mcmaster.com/1143N225/
Still though, it makes me wonder if another carrier might have a larger selection (hard to imagine, McMaster seems to carry EVERYTHING).
Maybe a sheet of something thicker that you then cut a strip from. Obv. cutting a strip with both edges parallel is tough, but I wonder if you clamped it between some good flat wooden boards and went at it with a pizza cutter? Use a tablesaw rip fence as a straight edge (or clamp down another flat straight board or length of metal flat stock). Carefully make a couple passes with the pizza cutter and that might be enough to give you a line to snap it on?
https://www.mcmaster.com/products/shim-stock/shim-stock-6/
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