Smidgens to tads: Conversion chart.

[sandman]

I just finished a design for a wall chart. Standard dimensions to Woodworkers dimensions.

Units:

Ticks...add a few ticks = 1/16th of an inch? Tads...take off a tad Smidgens...a smidgen too large C-hairs...move it JUST a C-hair Hairs..it is a hair too big Bits...move it over a bit Whispers... I think I'll plane off a whisper Littles.... put on a little glue. Mites Trifles Chunks

There are some disagreements as to how many whispers there are in a hair. I DO know that there are 14 tads to a smidgen.

Units of volume: How many shitloads in a bucket full?

There may be some regional units of measurements as well.

I could use some unput.....Please?

Rob.

[Leon]

Don't know, but there are 3 shit loads in a butt load.

[DJ Delorie]

There are 128 buckets full in a shitload, at least for an Imperial shitload, which is a truckfull (and not those pansy shortbed trucks either, the full sized ones that can hold a small import and have room for chickens). Not to be confused with a "shit load" (two words), which is 1/3 of an assload. Not to be confused with a metric assload, which is 26 heads of cabbage.

What *I* want to know is, how many whispers in a dammit? (whisper, whisper, whisper... dammit took too much off again - I guess it's three)

[Edwin Pawlowski]

That is .004" Don't ask.

[Wilson Lamb]

[d.kessell]

I think that is about equivalent to a "bump", which is close to a "plum"--these terms are usually applied only in the negative sense, though, as in "a 'bump' too far" or "'plum' out of line." "Plum", in this regard, is much like "way", but indicates a much smaller amount; however, a 'plum' is larger than a 'bump'. Any etymological association with "tad" is only speculative.

Dan

[Dave in Fairfax]

Ed, that's a big, fat, black one, not the thin, little, blonde ones. Ya gotta be specific in these things.

Dave in Fairfax

[Wood Butcher]

And RCH's are even finer units of measurement.

Art

[Doug Winterburn]

Two pinks to one red, so pinks are finer yet.

- Doug

[John DeBoo]

[John DeBoo]

But pinks ain't natural! To be pink its gotta be sprayed on, and that means its thicker. Or.....pink...., wait, too much information!

[CW]

Not the red variety. They're much finer. Closer to .002

[sandman]

That would be about 200 RCH to a Tad then.

Okay, now we're getting somewhere.

The reader with the .004 measurement may have had his calipers on a small braid.

[patrick conroy]

Mouse Nuts...

[Mark & Juanita]

Thought BCH (blonde) was the smallest unit?

[Edwin Pawlowski]

More research must be done!

[Glen]

Is that a BCH or an RCH. I always get then confused.

Glen

[Larry Jaques]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:39:44 -0500, sandman calmly ranted:

Nah, that was prolly some Irish crossdresser's hair.

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[Grant P. Beagles]

[Dave in Fairfax]

Nope. If you reread what I wrote, you'll find that I said the .004 musta been a thick BLACK one, not a thin Blonde one. Never said that Red was thinner. As for braid, 4/1000 is about the thickness of good quality paper, much thinner than braids, or brads.

Dave in Fairfax