Sentence examples for fine tolerances from inspiring English sources

"As an old Army trooper" he said, he was no expert, but it struck him as strange that the Iraqis would spend so much on tubes manufactured to fine tolerances, only to watch them blow up as shrapnel.

Two other maintenance experts, with long experience at other airlines, said it would not be unusual to send a second mechanic and inspector to remeasure a part if fine tolerances were involved.

Grinding is a precision machining process which is widely used in the manufacture of components requiring fine tolerances and smooth finishes.

Cost and engineering difficulty are then obviously high because of factors such as special material and processing, very fine tolerances, and high demands on repeated thermo-mechanical performance.

Rolling element bearings are manufactured to very fine tolerances; race dimensions to ten thousandths of an inch or thousandths of a millimeter and surfaces to microns.

At first these were forged of bronze plates; some classical Greek examples were cast to such fine tolerances that they sprang open and could be snapped onto the calf.

Roman aqueducts were built to remarkably fine tolerance, and to a technological standard that was not to be equalled until modern times.

Handwork to the finest tolerances.

But Jaguar had to find an alternative to laser welding, which is an expensive way to join metal, requiring extraordinarily fine parts tolerances.

But Mr Harper is a cautious man, with a fine ear for Canadian tolerances.

Stars are designed for two, and the tolerances are fine enough that my extra weight in this breeze might be too much.