On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:13:33 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 3:00:54 PM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:

Yeah, you did. And you said you'd use a machinist's square and "file
to fit." Fit what? The machinist's square is what your sentence said.
You weren't filing to fit the file.


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Ed Huntress

The file to fit came from Mil spec MILTPFO. Along with"cut to size, file to fit, and paint to match." 8-)

Dan

That's fine. But they aren't saying "file to fit" a machinist's
square.

Here's your sentence again: 'And then would use some small files along
with a machinists square to " file to fit ".'

If that appeared in an article that I was editing, in an article for a
non-machinist, I'd correct the ambiguity by re-writing it:

"And then would use some small files, after using a machinist's square
to lay it out, filing to fit' the part you're fitting into the square
hole."

You just interjected the "along with a machinist's square" in a way
that makes it unclear what you're fitting to. It's a minor syntax
issue. I wouldn't have commented except that you left an opening to
make a wisecrack.

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Ed Huntress