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Old 01-15-2010, 02:04 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
I doubt they used a thinner guage than usual.
I remember the campaign the steel makers had to mount to get Detroit to stop ordering 29 different thicknesses that were within a few thou of each other. Typically, an engineer had specified a new guage for some item, and then it became a catalog option. Eventually, they accepted a new standard with regular small increments.
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