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Stormin Mormon[_10_] Stormin Mormon[_10_] is offline
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Default When is one inch NOT one inch? (plumbing)

On 11/19/2013 6:21 AM, wrote:

More than once I've gone to a lumberyard and asked the guy for a 2 inch
4 x 96. The smart ones get it, while the dummies just look at me stupid
and I have to explain it to them. It's usually the older guys that get
it, but the young ones dont.


You probably brought home a 1 13/16 by 3 13/16 / 96.
I can't remember the actual, but it's about that.

Did you ask for a pound of ten penny nails, but all
they had were ten dee nails?

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