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Re: interchangeable parts

To: mgs@autox.team.net, thorpe@kegs.saic.com
Subject: Re: interchangeable parts
From: jurrasm@genesis.torrington.com (Mark Jurras)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 07:42:40 -0400
> 
> While I'm on the subject, I was once told a story about the Japanese 
> setting up to manufacture wringer washing machines after WWII.  They 
> ordered one from the Sears Catalog (where America shops) and it got dented 
> on the boat going over. Every wringer washing machine they manufactured 
> had that same dent.
> 
> Denise Thorpe, spewing trivia wherever I go
> thorpe@kegs.saic.com

Ah, but you failed to mention that, using the Tagucci method, they
optimized the dent.

Mark "My paycheck isn't enhanced by anything made in Japan" Jurras

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