On Wed, 18 May 2005 05:39:25 GMT, "Bill Sornson"
wrote:

wrote:
On 17 May 2005 18:55:00 -0700, "wle"
wrote:

this sounds nutty but i have a 7000 mile chain with less
than .3/16" 'stretch'.

[snip]

wle.

Dear WLE,

Possibly that 3/16ths of an inch wear was a typo?

Dear Carl.

Switch to decaf recently?

Bill "." S.

Dear Bill,

Without mentioning any names, one problem with writing
without capitals and leaving out punctuation is that when
you mean 0.3/16ths of an inch, writing .3/16" is
mystifying--was the "." intentional or a typo?

(True, .30-30 rifles and .38 pistols and the .30-'06 omit
the leading zero, but a 0.3/16 would be a pipsqueak indeed.
And the preceding sentence will choke many proofreading
programs, since a space and period rarely follow a comma.)

And where on earth do we find a ruler marked in tenths of a
sixteenth of an inch? Is it near where they sell the metric
rulers marked in sixteenths of a centimeter? Or is it over
where the 1/7th inch drill bits are always on sale?

Of course, if you meant to praise my tentative effort to
omit needless words (as long as they're someone else's),
then I'm flattered that my snipping merits comment.

Carl Fogel