1/4 - 3: Okay W day down and it was actually kinda real nice, will not happen for a while as I was put on fabricating braces for lights, the thin metal sheeting will be too thin and will not support the weight. So the supervisor I was with left as he said he would and I am in limbo but with another.
First I have to cut metal strut in half, no problem ten ' divided by two is 5' draw a straight line and cut. So ten metal struts to 20 5' struts, then find center again and mark, still easy. The hard part each light, and there are 16, already has two supports that are threaded, so the cuts have to be on the mark as we have to worry about water damage and use a 3/4 inch hole saw that cuts steal.
He tells me that the supports are 24 and 2/3rds apart and leaves me to do my thing, knowing it is always best to measure twice cut once, I check and disagree. By lunch he comes to check on me, and I ask him to verify the distance and see if we agree, and tell him my measurement. To his shock and trying to come up with a few excuses, and checking eight more lights my measurement is in fact correct and I have divided, and drawn the half marks the, and he got this wrong as well, not a sixteenth a thirty-second of an inch. All the marks were made and sitting in line pretty.
Back from lunch he wants to start to measure the outside, that is 84 and one half inch from side to side. No I said 84 and 5/8 and even went back and said "I think we are about to do this wrong." LOL as in he instructed me wrong on how to get center on the doors. Right again, and he came back to find that I was already cutting the struts, each fit perfect. Had we done it his way all would have not worked. By the end of the day he said. "If it was not so long your nickname would be "Mr sixteenth of an inch."" LOL yeah worked in the last office in Texas that drew blueprints by hand.
