"Bruce A. Frank" wrote in message
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Though "thousandths" is the correct word most of the machinists
I've
worked with just say "thousands"


Oddly I always said, "thow" ie. "30 thow"
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David O wrote:

Barnyard BOb -- wrote:

600 ten thousandths
60 thousandths
6 hundredths
.6 tenths....

All the same thing.

When talking about inches, all that stuff you wrote equals 60
mils
which is a heck of a lot easier to say than "60 thousandths of an
inch". Heck, I can't even say the word "thousandths" with any
degree
of clarity unless I say it really really slow. There ought to be
a
law against such words.

For the record, one mil = 1/1000 of an inch.

And yes, Bob, you are surely correct about the 30 mil overbore
and 6
mil piston/cylinder clearance.

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com