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I think 'mil' is related to imperial measurements. No way is 6 mil greenhouse plastic 6mm thick.
shit I dunno, it's thick. I figured it was some nominal b.s. like with lumber where it's totally not the thing, but people talk like it is. I would guess it's like 1.5-2 mm actual. I don't know what "mil" refers to, maybe some machine gauge?
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I worked for a while in The Academy, so we flipped around units a lot depending on the audience. I just assumed this was one of the SI friendly units.
what a dumb country. thousandths of an inch, what a useful meaurement! lmao
Yeah that's what makes it confusing. Shortening mm to "mil" is pretty standard when dealing in metric. But will be orders of magnitude off if it's in imperial measurements.