On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:06:46 GMT, Dave Young wrote:
Not to confuse things, but if I understand correctly, in England
they use the radius as the swing. In other words, in the original post
it would be a 3" swing (in the States it would be a 6" swing)......

Right. Americans are lazy. It is easier to state the largest diameter
piece that can be turned rather than requiring the worker to divide
by 2 (or multiply by 2) to find out if a piece of stock will fit. Doing
the math (and decisions which one to multiply or divide), much too
hard. :-)

Gary