[ARC5] Some nonsense about drifts and the English language. (Was bearings for DM-28 dynamotors)

[John Saxon via ARC5]

While we're on the subject I will jump in...
I have an aunt who was a middle school English teacher for many years.  If she found a grammatical error in the local newspaper she would contact the paper and correct them.  She saw an ad from a Mexican restaurant that had a comma error.  She contacted the restaurant to discover that the person who wrote the ad was.........a former student of hers  :-)
--John 
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 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Some nonsense about drifts and the English language. (Was bearings for DM-28 dynamotors)
   
I agree with you and Mrs Collins The English language is a precision instrument and should be used as such.
My father was a machinist and I remember him correcting me when I was taling about removing a pin using a punch.  He told me the proper tool was a drift, a fact i have remembered since.