I'm an American in England and it is also a language thing. The English (and their Australian cousins) use the term "MIL" as slang for MILLIMETER. So, when he asked for plastic 3 mil thick, they were thinking three MILLIMETERS. Try folding that up into a roll three inches thick and two feet long... All this time I thought I was speaking English... Frank Ross A Yank (No matter WHERE you are from in the US) living where Petrol (gas in US) is sold by the liter, but the highway signs are in MILES per hour.
--- Ron Butterfield <rbutterfi...@mebtel.net> wrote: > At 07:12 PM 1/18/05, you wrote: > >I have been to the Two largest building supplies in > Australia. and they do > >not know what 3 mil thick builders Plastic is. They > all say It CAN NOT BE 3 > >mil (mm) thick. > > Ahh! The dreaded English/Metric wars strike again. > ;-) > > Over here (USA) plastic is commonly sold by it's > thickness in thousandths > of an inch. So, 4 mill plastic sheet here would be > sold there as 100 > microns 3 mill would be 75 microns, etc. > > > Regards, > RonB __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
