Give that story another 10 years and the drill bit will have been
nanomachined into a jet engine.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
...
Yesterday I was trying to recount a story I heard years
ago. It was something like... a US company makes an
incredibly small drill, drills a hole in something, sends
it to their Swiss/German counterparts to show it off,
Counterparts send the part back with the hole tapped and
a screw in it.

Does anyone know the story and is it true?