"I can not understand these kinds of measurements, never seen them on tape measures, it's above my paygrade. UT weld inspectors at work use that all the time, .038, .057, .083.............I have to go to my boss and ask him how deep the weld reject is, he say 5/8" deep, ok why cant they wright that instead."
Sorry about that; my last 34 years on the job I wuz the guy those inspectors called when their stuff didn't WORK - in the course of a typical shift I needed to communicate with everybody from the production helper who wasn't sure which side of a pallet the forks went into, to the process engineer who thought EVERYBODY knew what molar weight, co-valent bonds, specific gravity, pH, and a bunch of OTHER arcane stuff meant - between that and teaching military truck drivers how to fix electronic stuff (along with troubleshooting complete TV studios over the PHONE) I learned to talk a LOT of different people's lingo...
If you WANT to learn what those .095 numbers mean in "tape measure lingo", you could get one of these
iGaging IP54 Electronic Digital Caliper -6" Display Inch/Metric/Fractions Stainless Steel Body: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
And no, I'm NOT kidding - Besides its INTENDED use, I use mine as a converter - it has 3 modes, you push the MIDDLE button -

- and it switches between 0.625", 5/8", and 15.875mm (all exactly the same size, just different ways of saying it) - so I can measure a bolt with that and know that it's a 5/8 bolt and that a 16mm annular cutter will give me a hole with a slight clearance, all by just pushing that button - by using the INSIDE measurement side (the pointy ends) I can use it as a thread pitch gauge; I usually count TEN threads, measure THAT distance and divide by 10, it's more accurate. It'll also tell me if it's a METRIC thread (hard to get away from, THESE days)...
THis one -
6 in. Digital Caliper with SAE and Metric Fractional Readings
Will do that too, but iGaging's stuff is nicer...
Torch stuff - I use these -

- the brush starts out all the same size, but a couple uses makes it look like the pic

- But I'm glad you mentioned that, I WUZ just gonna keep that stuff in the (yet to be cobbled up) drawer, but now I think I'll add a "mini-table" in front of the bottle - make it big enough to hold the stuff in the pic, tack a short piece of small angle vertically and hose clamp my nozzle gel to that (just in case they decide to change the jar size, wouldn't wanna hafta grind a circular ring off just for that

) - The drill/brush could just SIT on that table, except when "4-wheelin"...
BTW, one of the millwrights on my old crew uses PAM spray for anti-spatter, etc - says it works fine and is a little cheaper. He borrowed my cement mixer a couple times, used PAM on it first and it came back cleaner than it left. Said it only took less than a minute with the garden hose...
Zoro shipped 3 of the 12-1/2 lb. rolls of .035 Lincoln wire out to me (37.5 lbs total) for $5 less than everybody else wanted for a 33 pounder in that brand; and FREE SHIPPING - After running out and pulling the spool off the small machine I decided there was no advantage to the big spools. Plus, the smaller ones can live in the HOUSE til they're needed (instead of in the "not so dry" garage, inside a welder), and it doesn't matter WHICH MIG runs out, that size will fit it.
Finished lunch, tack a couple nuts on (and probably a table

) and it's time to start prepping for paint... Steve
Oh, and I'll be sure to order one of those "$25 laser de-rusto" jobs, just as soon as they come down $649,975.00 in price
