At 11:27 AM 2/5/2004, you wrote:
Yes siree Mr Howell. I did in fact say that the discs were too wide. For that faux pas please accept my deepest and most sincere apologies. I shall in future posts make every effort to cite entirely accurate dimensions for whatever important subject that is of the moment. Thanks for correcting my egregious mistake.
No apologies required, Mr TFlan. Just remember that your status as the resident list curmudgeon carries with it some responsibilities, foremost among them precision of speech and accuracy of contention. Your blanket statement about Dremel discs, though patently incorrect, does not, in my humble opinion, fall into the category of egregiousness. If you insist, of course, I would defer to your judgement. You know the gravity of your own actions.
Having said that, I stand by my comments regarding the accuracy that can be obtained by freehanding a dremel with disc (.025") into a golf iron head.
And free you are to do exactly that. My comments stand unretracted as well (no great thing, considering they were correct).
Certainly you are, once again, absolutely correct when you state "If anyone tries this, you can check your work -- depth and width -- with a common set of automotive wire gauges." That pronouncement, unlike mine regarding the thickness of the dremel discs, is entirely accurate.
Concede the truth and free the soul, Brother Flanagan.
But then, "checking your work" is after the fact. By then its too late.
Damned difficult to check work before the fact, no? At some point one must make the first cut, whether in practice or in anger. Better to know than not know if the task was successfully completed.
I suspect by your previous comments concerning your failure to achieve satisfactory result that, in some manner, you checked your work. May I assume that check was done after the fact or shall we notify the scientific community that you have found a passage through a warp in the fabric of time?
In awe of your orneriness, I remain,
Burgess
