Re: Tips for chain cleaning

On Wed, 18 May 2005 19:08:45 GMT, "Leo Lichtman"
<l.lichtman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"wle" wrote: (clip)--0.3 is a visual estimate - pretty easy to make. (clip)
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Language like, "half a thou," or even "a third of sixteenth," would never be
>misunderstood. But .3/16 is strange, and so, easily questioned.

If you visually see that something is about a third of something marked as
a 16th, then the proper way to express that would be as 1/48th.

Jasper
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