Inches Dimensions with a Dash?

I'd like to know about this also. We recently had a 4000 lb, $25,000 stainless steel tank delivered with 11/16" holes where there should have been 1-1/16" holes. Luckily the fix didn't take too long, but if they'd have been located somewhere else it would have ruined my week. I haven't looked yet but stacked fractions would likely be a suitably alternative to the dash.

Thanks Whit

A thing like that would prevent us from using fractions at all. Why not use decimals?

because the tap says 1-1/16, not 1.0625

That, and some of our shops prefer not to think *too* much, and often I prefer it when they don't have to think too much.

Plus a two or three decimal place tolerance on a weldment can cost more that a 1/16" tolerance, 9 sheets with 114 parts, all that can add up to some serious money...

A dash or stacked fraction would solve the problem...

Michael wrote:

Ok, you're using the fractional form to imply a tolerance. Nothing at all wrong with that. Maybe at times when there's a possible ambiguity or misinterpretation you could state the tolerance explicitly. I must be a genius to think of things like that. Helpful, aren't I?

By the way, have you been testing 05 Beta?

Yeah, it's somehting we've always done, it's in our title block.

No time for beta testing, overworked, underpaid, need a vacation...

...does it have a dash or stacked fractions? You probably can't say...maybe you could contradict a double negative in the form of a rhetorical question to answer that for me. ;o)

Whit

Dale Dunn wrote:

I'll declarify an answer right after I figure out what you just said.

Dale Dunn wrote in news:Xns951FC944ECDB7daledunnatjamestoolc@65.24.7.50:

I think a good solid "maybe" should avoid directly telling him what you can't say in a more definite way.

matt

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Exactly.

Eschew Obfuscation!

My brother has t-shirt with this on it. One day we were going through a check-out line, and the cashier asked if it was English. I was amused.