• gens
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    6 hours ago

    When I asked the boss, who has been in the business for a couple generations, why it says here 4000 instead of 4m, he said what I am telling you. So you don’t mix up measurements.

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        4 minutes ago

        You’re right. People don’t use the system properly, but that’s how a lot of people do it is what I was saying. I can see how that would grind your gears (pun somewhat intended) as a machinist, since specs and tolerances are especially important in your line of work as I understand it