>> Common sense is an oxymoron. <snip> The numbers are there so we don't >> HAVE to remember which way the count goes. We can figure it out from >> the placement of the numbers and hitch pattern (if necessary). >> > > Ok, so maybe not common sense, but everything else about our culture > puts us in the mindset of things naturally progressing from left to > right. When one sees a 15 stamped on the plate, for example, it is > completely natural to be in the mindset that that unison and the wires > to the right of that stamp are 15 and those to the left of that stamp > are size 15 1/2 (or whatever the next size stamp reads), but that is not > the case at all. > Jeff Is Japanese written left to right? My point is that the information is there, and is easily extracted and fairly obvious if we can just get past our collection of completely natural crippling ethnocentricities long enough to read and process it. It's precisely all the inflexible little things that we were taught from birth and automatically think we assume to be immutable facts (natural, intuitive) that so often make it difficult for us to see what's right in front of us. You look at the layout, and extrapolate in the simplest possible terms to determine the system rather than assuming a system and adding complications like implied wire sizes to try to make it fit. I see the scale numbers thing as a non problem that should have taken less thought to work out than any one of the posted messages it prompted. Just my take. Back to the shop. Ron N
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