[lazide]

Apologies, yeah most motor start caps for some reason use mfd to mean micro farads. [https://www.packardonline.com/electrical/capacitor/motor-sta...]

I guess from before the days of Unicode?

µF == the same thing, but tends to be the ‘more correct’ modifier used in electronics and engineering, rather than industrial parts supplier catalogs.

[carlmr]

Oh, wow, this is so bad. m usually means "milli" not "micro". At least they could have used u instead of µ, which is a more common replacement when you don't have the keyboard character available.

[lazide]

Just wait until you see the actual dimensions of a 2x4!

[ssl-3]

I owned a house once that was balloon framed, with 2"x4" black walnut studs in the walls.

They just don't make things like they used to. :)