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> One of these days metric offset
> tables will make life simpler than struggling with feet, inches, and all
> those 64 fractions of an inch."

So get out yur calculator and multiply by 25.4 and after that go to you gloomy garage pull out yur metric tape and find 73 mm without an extra light and glasses! Metric is for scientists. I live in Canada and am supposed to be metric but I can assure you measuring 1/16ths on a properly graduated tape is far easier than measuring millimeters.

Bram

> So, the plus sign stands for an extra 16th of an inch.

> Glad to help those who have struggled with this.

> Paul G. Jacobson