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[ATM] Metric mirror
I'm in New Mexico again, just returned from the dentist in Las Palomas Ch.
Mexico where I got some things done, had a great lunch at a nice restaurant
and later met the Priest for the town.
The night before I left, I just couldn't get over my mirror with the deep
curve having such an odd diameter 7 7/8". I had been reading the Lecleire
book, and as bemoaning the use of the metric system to define mirror
measurements, why just move a decimal point when you get to divide by 64
using the English system as I had been brought up to do?
In any event, I had to get out of bed at 2:30 a.m. to catch my plane. While
in the shower, I had the brilliant idea that maybe I should look on the
other side of the tape measure to figure out why I have such an odd
measurement. After the shower, I went to the basement to measure the
mirror. Sure enough, there it was, my mirror is a 200 mm mirror. No doubt a
Canadian piece of glass invading my workshop.
Francis J. O'Reilly
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