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(33,032 posts) Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:22 PM Feb 2013

You might be a shoprat if

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You might be a shoprat if (Original Post) Ptah Feb 2013 OP

You measured your kitchen aluminum foil. {It's 0.00100} Ptah Feb 2013 #1

without measuring, im thinking thicker than .001 XRubicon Feb 2013 #4

UR not a shop rat. Ptah Feb 2013 #5

yes, you are right. .00100 is not measurable by the average shop rat XRubicon Feb 2013 #10

Yes, my micrometer has the resolution of five places to the right of the decimal point. Ptah Feb 2013 #11

Ha ha ha. You are a shop rat.... XRubicon Feb 2013 #13

The resolution is five digits, the accuracy can only be four digits. Ptah Feb 2013 #14

whoa whats that? I used to build space shuttle main engines until a few years ago dummy XRubicon Feb 2013 #15

Did I see you at Old Tucson? Ptah Feb 2013 #16

You are from Highstreet XRubicon Feb 2013 #17

You have used your needlepoint skills to make an arc-welder "cozy". NYC_SKP Feb 2013 #2

TIG is needle point! Ptah Feb 2013 #6

Good point. NYC_SKP Feb 2013 #8

Why don't you like my Juke Box thread? Ptah Feb 2013 #9

It didn't have "White Bird" by "It's a Beautiful Day on the listings... NYC_SKP Feb 2013 #12

Are you Ptah from Highstreet? XRubicon Feb 2013 #3

You time sensitive people think of me as Egyptian. Ptah Feb 2013 #7

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

1. You measured your kitchen aluminum foil. {It's 0.00100}

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:23 PM

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XRubicon

(2,212 posts)

4. without measuring, im thinking thicker than .001

Reply to Ptah (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:38 PM

Feb 2013

Lets watch Trailer Park Boys instead ok?

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

5. UR not a shop rat.

Reply to XRubicon (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:51 PM

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0.00100 is not .001.

:boo:

XRubicon

(2,212 posts)

10. yes, you are right. .00100 is not measurable by the average shop rat

Reply to Ptah (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:00 PM

Feb 2013

I guess I'm missing your reference. Can you measure anything to five decimal places?

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

11. Yes, my micrometer has the resolution of five places to the right of the decimal point.

Reply to XRubicon (Reply #10)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:01 PM

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XRubicon

(2,212 posts)

13. Ha ha ha. You are a shop rat....

Reply to Ptah (Reply #11)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:03 PM

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Here's where it gets ugly. You are dumb enough to believe you can measure five decimal places with a micrometer.

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

14. The resolution is five digits, the accuracy can only be four digits.

Reply to XRubicon (Reply #13)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:10 PM

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XRubicon

(2,212 posts)

15. whoa whats that? I used to build space shuttle main engines until a few years ago dummy

Reply to Ptah (Reply #14)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:21 PM

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Ptah

(33,032 posts)

16. Did I see you at Old Tucson?

Reply to XRubicon (Reply #15)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:26 PM

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XRubicon

(2,212 posts)

17. You are from Highstreet

Reply to Ptah (Reply #16)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:34 PM

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Please accept my sincere apology. ( I mean it)

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

2. You have used your needlepoint skills to make an arc-welder "cozy".

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:31 PM

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Ptah

(33,032 posts)

6. TIG is needle point!

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:52 PM

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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

8. Good point.

Reply to Ptah (Reply #6)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:54 PM

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Ptah

(33,032 posts)

9. Why don't you like my Juke Box thread?

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:55 PM

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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

12. It didn't have "White Bird" by "It's a Beautiful Day on the listings...

Reply to Ptah (Reply #9)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:03 PM

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But I did just select a song by the Band, on your Juke Box.

XRubicon

(2,212 posts)

3. Are you Ptah from Highstreet?

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:34 PM

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Ptah

(33,032 posts)

7. You time sensitive people think of me as Egyptian.

Reply to XRubicon (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:54 PM

Feb 2013

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