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Old 09-28-2009, 05:38 PM
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Just have a QUICk General question...
Just wondering whats the coversion rate from thou to inches.
For example i had 80 thou shaved off at the machine shop and was wondering how much is that in inches.
Im thinking 1/2 inch shaved off!!!!!!!!!!!
If i rememeber correctly isnt 40 thou about 1/4 inch off!!
My Flange on my Turbo manifold was really warped so about 80 thow was shaved off from what i was told.To begin with the flange was REALLY think and close to 3/4 inch i believe
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0.1 tenth
0.01 hundredth
0.001 thousanth

so...

40 thousandths = 0.040"
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A dime is 0.053" (1.35 mm) thick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(United_States_coin)




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