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To: todd <todd@twinjugs.com>
Subject: Re: Tools....
From: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:14:24 -0800
Hey Todd, I have to agree with you about the digital verniers. I have 
for years used them to figure out inches to communist measurement. But 
the one main tool in the shop I could not get along without is my coffee 
cup. No coffee= no brain power.   Doug Odom in big ditch

todd wrote:

>That list could get very long. I have digital mics down to .00005"(that's 
>half of one ten thansoundth of an inch keith) and dialbore guages, mics and 
>such to .0001"... but I gotta agree with ya on the vernier be it dial or 
>digital. The dial I use reguraly for quick measurements and the cheap digital 
>verniers(like $30) I have a couple of laying around like calculators and use 
>as a converter for mm to inches and vice-versa. I don't "need them", but on 
>the other hand, I couldn't live without them.
>Another one would be the welding oven, like the digital vernier it's used 
>less for it's intended purpose(welding) then anything else. From shrink 
>fitting guides, bearings and bushings to baking heat paint on heads 
>cylinders, brackets and frame parts(and alot of other stuff) I don't think I 
>need it, but wouldn't want to be without it.
>Better stop there.
>Todd-






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