Marking sheetmetal

"Don W" wrote in message ...
: RST Engineering wrote:
: "Don W" wrote in message
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: RST Engineering wrote:
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: Depends entirely on what tolerance you are marking/cutting/bending to. I
: want my students to be able to cut/bend to ten thousandths accurately and
: the only way to do that is to scribe.
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: If you can bend aluminum to a 1/10,000" tolerance you are the MAN. You
: must have some really talented students.
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: That's not the English of it. Ten thousandths is far different from one ten
: thousandth. Ten of the little thousandths rather than one of the tenth part
: of a thousandth. 0.010 as opposed to 0.0001. Two orders of magnitude
: difference. Get it?
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: yeah, I got it the first time. Just having a
: little fun with you. Was it good for you too?
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: That's why some people call it ten mils, or .010",
: or... sometimes ten one thousands of an inch, etc.
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: Don W.
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How about 1 hundredth of an inch?