----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mike Bandli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Delbert Waterbury'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Since Scale Cubes are a topic today
Hi, All
I hate to sound a sour note, but these "artifacts" are
for SCALE, not measurement. I think it's wonderful
that folks make them accurate to +/- 0.001 inch or
millimeter, out of materials with low coefficients of
expansion, and so forth, but that is purely an exercise
in personal perfectionism.
<snipped for brevity>
Actualy, I made them to +/- 0.00015 ;-)
But your are right, scale is not a NIST traceable measurement. It's more of
a concept. But still... you can't be too accurate. :-)
Drake
"A rock pile ceases to be a pile of rocks,
the moment one contemplates it
and envisions a cathedral."
Drake "Doc" Dameräu
L3CC Member
www.nepra.com
www.rocketmaterials.org
http://home.sprynet.com/~monel/
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