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A builder can’t be faulted for thinking this part, dimensioned to 64ths of an inch and .001 of a millimeter, is critical, but the precise dimensions spring from the designer setting the CAD program’s auto dimensioning resolution far too low.

Measuring: Go To Lengths To Get It Right

Kerry Fores - November 20, 2025 0

In Case You Missed It

Home Shop Machinist

Bob Hadley - October 23, 2014 4

Totally tubular: Tips for tube notching.

Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience

Dave Forster - July 20, 2018 0

Keeping Burt Rutan's classic canards alive.

Completions

Kitplanes - July 13, 2009 0

Builders share their successes.

The Home Machinist

Bob Fritz - August 17, 2009 0

All tapped out? Bob Fritz lets you in on his secrets for retrieving broken, over-torqued and stripped screw heads.