[TowerTalk] When is a 100' tower only 97' tall?

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Dick NY1E wrote:
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>From: "John Hudson" <jd_hudson at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] When is a 100' tower only 97' tall?
>To: "'John Becker'" <johnb3030 at comcast.net>,
>    <towertalk at contesting.com>
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>You think that's bad.. got to your lumber yard and measure a 2x4 or a 2x6.,
>then see what you are paying for!
>
>John
>KO4XJ

You mean, we shouldn't order tower sections "planed all round"?


>But an 8 footer will be 96.5 inches long!!!
>Dick NY1Ewww,ny1e.com

Here in the Land of Mixed Units, our house is built in feet-and-inches 
on the ground floor, but from the staircase on up it's all metric. But 
that still doesn't beat my all-time favorite:

"Sorry, we don't stock 1-inch tubing any more. It's all millimetres now. 
Let's see... nearest I can do you is a 25.4."


-- 
73 from Ian GM3SEK
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