How thick is a mil.?

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

A "mil" is 1/1000 inches, one one thousandth of an inch. There are 1000 mils 
in an inch.

Pappas is right about the light duty trash bag, except even these are around 
1 1/2 mils thick. Monokote is around  2 1/2 mils thick and ultrakote around 3 
mils thick

You have got me wondering why you need 1 mil thick pvc film? That's very 
unusual
 material
. What's the application

MattK

> Subj:RE: How thick is a mil.? 
> Date:4/23/2004 11:17:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:d.pappas at kodeos.com
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> I think the mil you refer to is one milli-inch. That even sounds right: it's 
> about the same as a very light duty plastic trash bag.
>  
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> >> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mike mueller [mailto:mups1953 at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:13 AM
>> To: discussion at nsrca.org
>> Subject: How thick is a mil.?
>> 
>> 
>>  Ok I took out the metric converter and I think I have the math right.
>>  Could one of you smart dudes check this?
>>  A micron is 1000th of a millimeter, correct?
>>  A millimeter is about .039+", Correct?
>>  25 microns is about .001, correct?
>>  Then what's a mil.? And how thick is a mil?
>>  I need to order 1 mil. vinyl and i'd like to know.
>>  TIA, Mike
>> 
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