Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2014 20:16:51 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

"David R. Birch" fired this volley in
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Competent machinists recognize that a "mill" measurement is .001".


Nope. Illiterate machinists call 0.001" a "mill".

Competent machinists call 0.001" a "mil".

Lloyd

Ive been working in commercial machine shops on the west coast since
1996..and have heard NO ONE use the term "mil" when refering to
anything other than thickness of garbage sacks and sheet plastic.
Not in Aridzona, not in California, not in Washington, Idaho or Oregon

we use "gauge" to measure plastic film here in the midwest, and a mil
requires no extra explanation.