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Textured vinyl from Parts express.......
sealslayer:
How thick is this stuff? I was looking at their website and its says 10 mil thick, do they mean 10 mm as in millimeters if so that seems REALLY THICK ! thats over a 1/3 of a inch
vidmouse:
I'm no expert on this stuff, but when I deal with my mechanical engineering
friends a mil is a thousandth of a inch. 10 mils = 0.010"
I would still get clarification tho...
sealslayer:
ahh ok that would make sense, I thought 10 mm was a little on the large side :)
shardian:
Vidmouse is right.
Green Giant:
mil [1]
a unit of distance equal to 0.001 inch: a "milli-inch," in other words. Mils are used, primarily in the U.S., to express small distances and tolerances in engineering work. One mil is exactly 25.4 microns, just as one inch is exactly 25.4 millimeters. This unit is also called the thou. With the increasing use of metric units in the U.S., many machinists now avoid the use of "mil" because that term is also a handy slang for the millimeter.
Don't worry, it is thin. Only .254 mm