This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Carl said: "I've long used a dial caliper for it. Caught hell from = jumpin' Joe Garrett of the tool police for being too cheap to buy a micrometer. I think a caliper is plenty accurate for measuring wire. After all we = are mainly checking an original scale and one or two thousands make little difference on the graph. We really just want to see the general shape = of the tension/ inh curve. Pscale then give an accurate dimension for the = new strings which is the important thing." Carl, "Jumpin' Joe" here!<G> If you believe all of the above crap, then I've = wasted a whole lot of my time, in our conversations, for naught! :-( = Cheap-ass calipers are NOT accurate enough to do the job. AND, if all = you're looking at is "tension/inh curve", then you're wasting everyone's = time/energy/money, including your own! "one or two thousands" makes a = helluva lot of difference in music wire/scales. That's why they made the = damned stuff in .001" increments! Duh!<G> BTW, why don't you get a good = scale program?<G> (BTW, Carl & I are kindred spirits of like mind, MOST of the time. He's = just a cheapskate, who likes to rattle my cage every once in a = while.<G>hehe) Regards, Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/95/9b/37/72/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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