Ford V-6 engine work

clare @ snyder.on .ca wrote:

Yes, in the right context "thousands" sounds like a lazy "thousandths"
anyway. Given my trouble saying "thousandths", I'll have to remember
that.

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com


Every machinist or mechanic I've ever met just calls them Thous.

I've heard both used in my somewhat limited exposure to that world.
Now if I started saying "thousandths" or "thous" instead of "mils" in
my professional work (EE, pc board fab, etc), I'd get strange looks
indeed. "Mil" has "of an inch" in the definition which pleases my
engineering sensibilities.

Along similar lines, before "Hertz" was adopted by SI in the late
'60s, most folks just said "kilocycles" instead of "kilocycles per
second". Hertz has "per second" as part of its definition which also
pleases my engineering sensibilities. A lot of hams, however, were
miffed when their beloved "kay cee" was supplanted through a tribute
to a dead German physicist.

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com