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By:Dale Frolander
Date: 10/10/2000, 1:05 pm
In Response To: Re: help w/ offsets (Ronnie)

: Round off the numbers to the nearest fraction. There are
: some free ones on the web or you can find them at a lot of supply houses
: for free.

You can buy a scale from a tool supply store that is marked in 100ths of an inch. Then no conversion to the clumsy fraction system is needed.

I still don't understand why much of this country uses fractions of an inch when they could use decimals. I'm not saying we need to convert to metric, we could just easily convert to decimals like the stock market is finally doing.

If you have a computer program and input the curves into it, you will want decimals anyway.

Messages In This Thread

help w/ offsets
T-bone -- 10/10/2000, 10:55 am
Re: help w/ offsets
Chris Menard -- 10/10/2000, 1:14 pm
Re: help w/ offsets
Ronnie -- 10/10/2000, 12:14 pm
Or...
Dale Frolander -- 10/10/2000, 1:05 pm
Re: Or...
Robert Gardner -- 10/10/2000, 10:42 pm
Re: Or...
Jonathan Hirsch -- 10/10/2000, 6:25 pm
Re: Or...
Dale Frolander -- 10/11/2000, 2:31 am
Re: Or...
Tony -- 10/12/2000, 4:31 pm
Re: Darn you mechanical types :)
Spidey -- 10/11/2000, 10:40 pm
Re: Darn you mechanical types :)
Shawn Baker -- 10/13/2000, 1:48 pm
New/Old Math revisited . . .
Spidey -- 10/13/2000, 5:54 pm
11959.9 I'll mail you my "convert" program spidey *NM*
Dale Frolander -- 10/12/2000, 1:45 am
Re: Or...
Jonathan Hirsch -- 10/11/2000, 2:45 am
Great
Dale Frolander -- 10/11/2000, 9:22 pm