More fun details. The girl at Lowes who quoted me does not know that 26ga is thicker than 29ga. When I told her this was not structural, I wanted the lighter gauge, she quoted me for 26gauge. They really need to hire people who know things.

*For those not in the USA, in addition to using an inch based on the length of a barley corn, we also invert numbers when using "gauge". Higher numbers are smaller items. 29 gauge is thinner than 26. 12gauge shot shells are larger than 20gauge. AWG10 wire is larger than AWG14 wire.

Also, you guys use GSM for the weight of paper, we use ream size. How much is a ream? Depends if it is writing paper or board or other type. There are about 10 ream sizes across the industry. There is ONE GSM.

And farmers use bushels for volume.... how much is a bushel? Depends if it is soy beans or corn or wheat. Oh and there's two pecks in a bushel.

What an amazing time to be alive.....