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Old 11-25-2009, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by blykins View Post
That's .400" for the technical guys. ;-)

Tell a machinist "four tenths" and you're looking at .0004".....LOL
When I visit my friendly machine shop, I always bring either a cardboard template, ruler, or both. Then I put my stuff down in front of the guy and say, "see, I want you to take this much off and then make it look like this." If I had to describe it in purely "machinist terms" it would absolutely, positively come back wrong.
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