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Designers in the UK doing technical drawing often say "400 mils" to mean 400mm. Just in speach though, it is written as mm.

Common speak in the workshop too.

Just in speach though, it is written as mm.

Trust the UK to F**k things up. Neither fish nor fowl, just something else weird from the UK only. Can't respect their own units decently.

Wrong, the NEC ampacities (which is about fire safety) is all about temperature rise. Published by NFPA. Other circumstances are more governed by engineering considerations.

I am pretty much a live and let live kind of person. Just the same i detest willful s******ds. You have just rated as striker for the willful s*****ad category. Disambiguation: Usage is for someone willfully being a s*****ad.

Wrong. A mil is 0.001 inch (short for milli-inch); metric countries would have no reason to use it.

Thanks, Rich

Wrong. Being in a metric country mil means millimeter.

Doubtful. They tried to convert us to KPH instead of MPH. It was a dismal failure because not enough people wanted it. The US doesn't do something just because everyone else is doing it.

OTOH - now that the leftist extremists have control of our government, anything is possible.

That would be like getting an STD, just to prove you can.

You object to the metric system? [scoffs]

Small minds always scoff.

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I take it back, you are even more childish than Ian Field. You can sit next to him in my killfile. Go snuggle up, you'll get on well together.

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to him in my killfile. Go snuggle up, you'll get on well together.

Says the idiot limey who doesn't even know how to set up his newsreader.

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to him in my killfile. Go snuggle up, you'll get on well together.

He's infantile, and calls everyone childish...

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to him in my killfile. Go snuggle up, you'll get on well together.

I didn't think you were smart enough to use a kill filter. There might be a tiny bit of hope for you. That is, after hell freezes over. :(

You shouldn't be doing it because everyone else is, you should be doing it because the metric system is more sensible.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Hucker is wrong again. 'mil' is not used in the metric system specifically because it was put in use in the US system. So mil is mil all over the world, and that measure is 0.001 inch.

Sorry but it is you who are wrong.

I have been involved in engineering in the UK for 40 odd years.

As the metric system came into use the term mil was and is used as shorthand, in speech, for millimetres because no-one can be bothered to say millimetres every time you want to pass someone a dimension.

I cannot speak for other english speaking countries but I don't even know which have gone metric.

Continental europe has been metric for so long I doubt they would even recognise the term the way you use it.

Stuart