Fine Measurement, Circa 1978

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Before I retired the company gave me a well used 20th Edition of Machinery's Handbook. I use it to this day. The original owner has noted on page 2440 that a Smidge is .060", and a Skosh is .030". Nowhere else have I been able to locate this kind of precise solution to these old quandaries. :eagerness:

Tom
 
I love stuff like that, and that really is the type of information that gets put away and lost over the ages. Every now and again at work I take great enjoyment in using terms like "scantling" and watch people's brows knit.

Thanks for sharing that little "tidbit".

-frank
 
Ahhhhh Ha..............so TWO Skoshes per Smidge......... I knew it!

I had an argument with a guy in the mechanical department just last week about this.
But, now I have an irrefutable internet reference to show him.

Thanks Tom!

-brino
 
Boy, that's going to be rough converting to metric. Sounds like a skosh is a "hair" under a mm?:rolleyes:
 
Ahhhhh Ha..............so TWO Skoshes per Smidge......... I knew it!

I had an argument with a guy in the mechanical department just last week about this.
But, now I have an irrefutable internet reference to show him.

Thanks Tom!

-brino

And if it's on the internet, it has to be true!:blues:
 
I use "half a kerf" quite a bit when fitting trim. When I taught guitar building, we used "half a sixteenth."
 
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