Thanks for the info guys, Tim I loved that link, I had no idea you could google books. I got lucky today, talked to a guy after church today about this situation. He said he had a friend who did tooling for a bearing company and he'd run it by him. He called me while ago and said if I'd get the slug to him, he would take it and use a tri-mike (not sure of the spelling) on it. He says its basically a micrometer that gauges from 3 points instead of two. He said that it would only be accurate to the ten-thousandths, if I needed more accuracy he'd have to use the computer/laser scanner...
I said I'd just settle for the ten-thousandths. I took the slug to him this afternoon, he said he'd call me tomorrow afternoon, can't beat that for service. I think I'll try that method in the book link that Tim sent when I get my slug back, just in case his tri-mike is off
Thanks again, JR