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Thread: Size before or after powder coating

  1. 05-28-2016, 08:57 PM #41
    dahermit
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantom30 View Post
    Powder coating can increase the boolit diameter 2 to 4 mils
    Is that new way of expressing thousandths of an inch? I am only familiar with mils as in taxation or thickness of plastic bags.
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  2. 05-30-2016, 03:57 PM #42
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    mils in thousands of an inch is frequently used for film thickness (sheeting, paint, etc) and is a commonly by machinists.
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  3. 06-03-2016, 06:12 AM #43
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    Quote Originally Posted by P Flados View Post
    mils in thousands of an inch is frequently used for film thickness (sheeting, paint, etc) and is a commonly by machinists.
    I must have missed that when I was studying to be a machinist, we always used thousandths to relate diameters.
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