I have been meaning to reply to the inquiry about letter, number and 
fractional drills, the whys and wherefores thereof.

A newbie beat me to it.

Welcome aboard, Lamar.  You are gonna love it here.

On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 06:02  AM, Lamar keeney wrote:

>
>   RE:As for the drill bit lettery and number system.Having been in the 
> machinenist program before returning to carpentry. The use of them was 
> to allow for minor dia. of threads of different classes of fits,also 
> tolerace of holes for bolts.This also applied to pre-drillng of holes 
> for reams and such.

     Hope this gets trough, i'm not as coputer savy as i would like to 
be.Been lurking under porch for
about a year, finaly thinking i got this thing figuered out enough to 
intraduce myself.(Some of my spelling is lacking also, but has greatly 
imprved. I'm the only person who has locked up spell-check)
    My name is Lamar Keeney now reciding in the Wilmington NC area.Age:can't 
get any farther on the back side forty, Ocupation:Semi-retired carpenter 
after twenty three years(meaning"Ain't got no money but damn shure got it 
made")
    As for this "galoot thing" the first time a got acused of it was when i 
drug out a brace and bit on a job sight in this age of tailed tools.After a 
generous offer to fine tune the young mans attitude he most respectively 
explained hiself. Didn't know we had a classification,let alone as many 
peaple that still shared an interest in the tools i learned with and still 
use. Finding this web sight has been the most interesting and enjoyable 
thing about this #!%& computer I've found.
   Looking forward comunicating and being of help when i can.

   RE:As for the drill bit lettery and number system.Having been in the 
machinenist program before returning to carpentry. The use of them was to 
allow for minor dia. of threads of different classes of fits,also tolerace 
of holes for bolts.This also applied to pre-drillng of holes for reams and 
such.
        Hope this will help
                        Lamar

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At 9:02 AM -0500 3/10/04, Lamar keeney wrote:
>     Hope this gets trough, i'm not as coputer savy as i would like 
>to be.Been lurking under porch for
>about a year, finaly thinking i got this thing figuered out enough 
>to intraduce myself.(Some of my spelling is lacking also, but has 
>greatly imprved. I'm the only person who has locked up spell-check)
>    My name is Lamar Keeney now reciding in the Wilmington NC 
>area.Age:can't get any farther on the back side forty, 
>Ocupation:Semi-retired carpenter after twenty three 
>years(meaning"Ain't got no money but damn shure got it made")
>
Welcome aboard Lamar,  There are  a lot of IT guys on this porch and 
I am sure that they can assist you with computer issues.  I also have 
spelling problems, but none of the English language elitists have 
scratched me with sardonic correction barbs when I have made 
contributions to the list.  What old tools do you like best (other 
than your braces)?

-Rex