wire size question

You should shell out the $20 or whatever then (or $100 and get a Mitutoyo or other brand name with a bit better "feel"). I use mine all the time- for rough (0.001") width, diameter, inside diameter (rougher) and depth measurements. A micrometer is useful for precision measurements, but less necessary for an EE.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I read in sci.electronics.design that "Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" wrote (in ) about 'wire size question', on Sat, 9 Apr 2005:

No longer there.

Mm.. 'kay. Hope things get better fast for you.

You don't have a file? ;-) Just double-checking lead pitch etc. is worth a lot by times.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I do.

I haven't got a LCD one, but a magazine sends me one every year. Ok, it's made of plastic, but it works fine, and is accurate enough for me, seeming to be within about .05mm

I'd like an LCD one of course.

"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com...

Who still makes audio recording tape? I thought Ampex was the last.

They're not dead yet. See this:

Unfortunately, $20 is quite a lot of money at the moment :/

I don't have any real need for it - I've got a 0-25mm micrometer, and the plastic caliper fills in for the rest.

I don't have any tools that can maintain that sort of tollerance anyway, so my need is less.

True. I don't really have that much that I need to hold accurate tollerances for anyway.

The file is a much underestimated metalworking tool.

"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" wrote: (snip)

No tears here about that demise. I haven't used Ampex tape since 1969, in Korea. We switched our three 12-track recorders to 3M tape because Ampex sandpapered the heads.

This old war horse finally went CD-R and CD-RW about a year ago. CD-RW is wonderful for PC HD backup. Can't bear to let go of my Teac 4010-SL r/r deck though. I bought it in Thailand in '71, used it until '81 or so, and then packed it in its original box. It's been used twice since then. Every once in a while I pull it out to show to some kid as an antique. :-)

What wire gauge, if one at all, do metricated industrial countries use?

France, Germany, Russia, China, for example.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Reg Edwards wrote (in ) about 'wire size question', on Sun,

There is an IEC standard, IEC 60317-0-1, which specifies a range of metric diameters for enamelled copper winding wires.

Wire diameter in mm.

If they carry american wire sizes they are also declared in wire diameter in mm.

To distingush it from a micrometer caliper at one end of the tool spectrum, and a monkey wrench at the other. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Whoa! Right now I have four shoeboxes of old Morse-code tapes sitting on the workbench waiting to be carried out to the trashcan. Should I advertise them on Ebay instead?

Got any old copies of _Electronics_ magazine? This one probably passed through many of our hands...

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Depends. Some tapes (reportedly mostly from the 1970s) disintegrate. A couple of years ago I had no trouble playing my tapes from the late 1960s, but...

In fact it prompted one of our librarians to go and get our university's copy of it and lock it away...

I'd attempt to hawk em on ebay before tossing them. Maybe somebody can do something with them regardless of condition or relevance of code practice. It doesn't make sense to just cart them to the dump without trying.

-Bill

Navy Gauge?

{I recall US Navy had some scheme that was its alone; sizes were directly proportional to label...}

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