Yeah, we used that measurement in surveys too...until female engineers started rotating through the survey crews. Oh, well, probably a good thing. But we still used a euphonism [SP?] for a gad [steel device for starting or making a hole in hard ground so that a piece of wood could be driven in]. Surveyors, however, have an excuse as they are the lowest form of life on the planet [or a highway construction job at least] outside of a water truck driver. Mike '85 Westy [longing for the bad old days, mainly cause they were my young days I suspect]
> FWIW: a human hair measures ~.003" in diameter - 3 one-thousandths of an > inch. There exists a penultimate unit of measure that made it's way down > from NACA in the old days known as RCH - ostensibly the finest unit of > measure ever detected, but which I can't divulge in a public/family forum > (let yer polluted imaginations run wild, & the context is that in the old > Apollo days it was definitely a man's world, that going into space business!). > > Austin |
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