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Old 01-22-2018, 07:55 AM
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I like the bit in the instructions that specify a difference of 15.4 thousands of an inch difference in stripped wire length for the two types of pins.

Someone must have much better measuring tools than I have.
Or as an aged structural engineer used to accuse us young bucks with the new
fangled calculators ?you guys measure with a micrometer and cut it off with an
axe?.
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Old 01-22-2018, 09:01 AM
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Or as an aged structural engineer used to accuse us young bucks with the new
fangled calculators ?you guys measure with a micrometer and cut it off with an
axe?.
If they actually quoted a tolerance we could allow for the width of the axe....
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