[lesser_satan]

In February, the Tokyo police raided Mitutoyo on suspicion of exporting 3-D precision measuring machines to China and Thailand in 2001 and 2002.

Media-speak for a CMM? I once saw a show on discovery that referred to an end-mill as a "special drill bit".

[Abathar]

Yeah, they do offer a wide selection of CMM's, sounds like that was what it was. I guess the tape measures they had just didn't cut the mustard.

Was the endmill center cutting? :-)