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Default Shockproof? Really?

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 15:07:25 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
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* co-worker told of working in a woodworking store, guy comes in
wants
a block of wood 100 cm on a side, to .001. "Sir, wood swells that
much just by breathing on it. Also - a block that large is going to
be impossible to find."
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pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although far too often, Age travels alone."


Hmmmmm...I could sell my scrap cutoffs of 6x6 deck posts as kits to
make the Platonic Solids.

I'm still using guard rail post cut-offs that I collected in 1980!