On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:12:20 -0600, John Turco wrote:


My late father once told me a story, along similar lines. An American
manufacturer tried to impress one of its lordly German counterparts, by
shipping samples of extrordinarily-tiny drill bits.

Those same items were soon returned -- with holes in them!

(Probably apocryphal, but, just sayin'.)
When I heard the story (in the early 60's it was the engineeering dept.
of a couple of universities. One sent the other a microscopically small
bolt, the second returned the bolt with nut attached which was returned
with holes drilled through the corners for a locking wire.




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Neil
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