Likely this has been posted before, but an Interesting video nonetheless.
Brunswick Slate Video
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Great video! It makes me wonder how slate has remained relatively cheap over the years. I bought a set of slates in 1979 for around 400 bucks, and it’s now around 600, most everything else has more than tripled in cost over the same time period. It’s quite the process,
I find it hilarious when the say the slate is guaranteed flat to "10/1000" of an inch (.010)
That's actually 1/100 of an inch (also .010) but I guess it sounds better.
That's actually 1/100 of an inch (also .010) but I guess it sounds better.
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boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
This drives me nuts. I work in inspection and we inspect to metric. Legacy prints and hearing the older folks talk in 1000ths and 10000ths is just asinine. I get it, it has it's meaning but just let me know the measurement. I'd much rather see the decimal than hear someone talk in thousandths and have to convert that crap in my head.
I’m just the opposite, I love everything stated in 1,000ths of an inch. Common language I guess. If I get a criteria stated in mm I usually get the phone out and convert to 1,000ths of an inch.
Whenever I write tech data for my job. I just do the conversion and state it in parenthesis next to the old school way so that the readers don’t have to take the time to convert every time that job is done. Besides most of the dial indicators are setup for easy use in the .000 range.
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Anything less then 1mm is still done in fractions or decimals.
1/100th of a mm is still a decimal... .01mm.
1/100th of a mm is still a decimal... .01mm.