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Unread 11-20-2009, 07:14 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Edward Tinker View Post
Since you guys are engineer types...
Ron probably is...I'm just a blue collar worker...

It would be difficult to measure the depth of the stamping...because the metal around the stamp is displaced; raised slightly; making accurate measurement difficult...

One point: We all think in thousandths...Hundredths and even tenths are not common terms in the manufacturing/machine tools world...

For example...if you have a sheet of lined notebook paper, like schoolchildren use...it's ~.004" thick (four thousandths)...You'll never hear anyone say "About half a hundredth"...
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