Re: Tesla List

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• Subject: Re: Tesla List
• From: "Jeff W. Parisse" <jparisse-at-teslacoil-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 06:50:18 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Mikey,

They didn't say millimeter, they said "mil" as in
60mil polyethylene. A mil (someone correct me if
I'm wrong) is .001" (yes, inch). Mil is not metric
and does not refer to millimeter.

Jeff

>    I know this is a little off of the subject, but after reading through
> many coiler's HOWTO's and such, I got quite confused when one person said:
1
> millimeter = .001 inch, and another: 1 millimeter = .01 inch. I know for a
> fact that: 1 inch = 25.4 millimeters, which would mean: 1 millimeter =
.039
> inches. A little different from what the others were sayin'. I have gotten
> very disgruntled from these documents.

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