[TheForge] Re: Iron Foil

[Jerry Smith]

Different metals have different gauge standards and different countries 
have different standards, I was hoping that I could do this in metric, but 
someplace don't deal that way. Some of the sales folks want to sell 
tonnage, not poundage.


Jerry

At 09:44 PM 10/14/2004, you wrote:

>Ries Niemi <rniemi at fidalgo.net> quoth:
>
> > When shopping for something, using the proper definitions and words
> > are important.
>
>I couldn't agree more.  But there is a potential gotcha:  Sometimes the
>salesdroid doesn't know what any of those terms mean.  He's used to
>dealing with customers who don't know either.  So he habitually throws
>around the terminology he finds in his catalogs and company PR
>brochures just to impress people.  He will believe you're doing the
>same.  You and he may then have a conversation that you think means
>something but which he regards merely as a certain kind of male
>bonding exercise.  If you fail to detect this situation on the fly,
>the results, as they say, are not predictable.
>
>[Numerous yarns of salesdroid stupidity suppressed.]
>
>Even with a complete absence of both stupidity and malice, you have to
>do more homework than they do.  F'rgzample, there are numerous gauge
>standards.  Which is in use by a vendor for a given material isn't
>always obvious so *you* have to know before hand that his notion of,
>say, 14 ga. may differ from yours.  Product sold as 1/8" x 2" hot
>rolled may actually be 1/8" plate sheared to 2" with different
>standards of flatness and dimension than stuff that's rolled to 1/8" x
>2".  And so on.
>
>
>- Mike
>
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