[Tech1] Booms Booms ...

[Barry Bonner]

Hi Dave,
	I also hate metric! Designed, maybe, to help the mathematically challenged! I have 3 stencils dated, 1972 (Television Apparatus), 1973 (Sound Dimensions), & 1988 (Sound Dimensions), all of which are metric. 

	Don’t know if the earlier ones were imperial.
Barry.



On 23 Aug 2019, at 10:47, David Newbitt <dnewbitt at fireflyuk.net> wrote:

> Oh Barry – you’ve gone all metric! I well remember the rough and ready full extension of the MR boom as 17 ft. reach. I see from your splendid stencil it would actually have been 17 ft. 4 ins. This is a poor repro of a page from the Mole Richardson catalogue for 1960 :
> <Mole%20Richardson%20Catalogue%201960%20Boom%20type%20103b%20dimensions[4].jpg>
>  
> The Americans were obviously less precise than the Beeb – 17 ft (give or take).
>  
> All the best,
>  
> Dave Newbitt.
>  

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