[time-nuts] gnat sizing

[Steve Rooke]

I also remember small distances being referred to by a 'fag paper'.
Meaning the thickness of a roll your own cigarette paper.

73 Steve

2009/8/23 Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com>:
> I'm from the SE of England, Brighton and Ipswich, and this is the
> measurement as I remember it from a very long time ago too Peter.
>
> Steve - G8KVD <- that dates me just a bit & ZL3TUV
>
> 2009/8/23 Peter Vince <pvince at theiet.org>:
>> Maybe I was brought up in a more genteel part of West London, but the unit of measurement I was brought up with was a
>> Gnat's Whisker.  I don't think that was just my parents cleaning it up, as that expression seemed pretty common.  Sometimes
>> abbreviated to just "a gnat's", but it was definitely its whisker that was understood.
>>
>> Peter Vince  (G8ZZR, London, England)


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