On 20/03/2015 14:40, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Le 2015-03-17 15:53, Stephen a écrit :
>>
>> It is amazing the fine tolerances people can work to.
>>
>
> I had a teacher who used to work for Pratt& Whittney and told us the
> story of building his house.  He was so used to working with military
> specs that he built his house with tolerances in measured in microns. He
> says that on the first rainy day, none of the doors in his house would
> close.
>
> (I have a feeling i was making this up, as you can't get that kind of
> precision with a circular saw... and I'm pretty sure he didn't use a
> 5-axis CMC mill to build his door frames.)

I would guess that it is an exaggeration for comic effect.
And a face saver. :-)


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Regards
     Stephen

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