Re: [ATM] Metric mirror

[George Anderson <tillerman1@videotron.ca>]

Or maybe it was trepanned with a tool that had an 8" outer diameter.
The other possibility is that it is a piece of Asian glass where metrics 
are just as common as here in the frozen north.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Francis J. O'Reilly wrote:
> 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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