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I was brought up with feet and inches, and while Europe is pretty thoroughly metric, my favourite chisel has an 18mm wide blade - which is close enough to 3/4" for most practical purposes. The next wider one is 25mm and the narrower 12mm ...
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If you have to do a lot, it stops being error-prone and becomes automatic.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
No numbered or lettered drills?
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Wimp! You need to step up to a cutting torch!
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Plasma cutter.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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I need magnifiers to read the worn etching :-( ...Jim Thompson
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There are numbered (so called "wire size") drill sizes (numbered 80 to
1) and letter (A-Z) drill sizes.Eg. G = 0.2610"
or 6 = 0.2040"
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7/32" = 0.2187"AFAIK, the only duplicate is the 1/4" which is fractional and also 'E'
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
that may be where you were born, but you are clearly a Europeon.
You try to move goalposts almost as much as DimBulb. The resemblance is uncanny.
They why didn't you know what a "fractional read-out" was, liar?
They're about $2 now. No point, though. OTOH, I saw a pair with a 2' span, recently. Might be useful.
Didn't see that. Nest time I'm by I'll pick up a couple. At that price I can scatter them around like I do screwdrivers. ;-)
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I'm quite aware of drill size notation. It was just much faster to "mike" them than to try to read each one. ...Jim Thompson
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That's a feature--even if slightly off, they're trimmable.
-- Cheers, James Arthur
Measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe. :)
Or measure with a chainsaw? (Know the tooth spacing?)
Sure we did. The inch is defined as 25.4mm. ;-)
I got one maybe a couple years ago for about $10 from Harbor Freight.
(A "dial caliper", 0 to 6 inches with 1/10 inch per rotation in the dial, nominal resolution to a thou. Accuracy has yet to draw complaints in the
1st inch, little need on my part for thou accuracy over an inch. I just have to remember to press the thumbwheel down hard enough to get movement instead of rubbing.)
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Personally, for the few dollars difference, I would avoid the composite ones.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
Can't afford one on my income. :(
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I like to think of myself as a citizen of the world, but my passport still describes me as Australian, and we will be moving back there next year.
sPerhaps because they don't sell them in the local super-markets and do- it-yourself stores. I imagine that I could buy one in a Sydney do-it- yourself store - there are still quite a few Australians around who were brought up using inches and feet and know what a sixteenth of an inch is - but I've not had any reason to visit one in recent years. We'll be moving into our apartment in Sydney in June. It has been rented out - unfurnished - for the past few years, so moving in and furnishing the place is probably going to involve a few visits to Sydney do-it-yourself shops.
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Yeah, all leftist loons believe they're something "greater" than they are.
Then why did you pretend you knew, when you admit that you didn't? You admit that you are the liar that everyone here knows you are.
Whoopie!
They sell booze in metric, but only because a 750mL is _almost_ a fifth,
1.75L is _almost_ a half-gallon, 375 mL is _almost_ a pint, but they can charge pint, fifth, and half-gallon prices for less booze.There was a time some years ago when the highway departments went on a metric jag, and you got signs like, "Next exit 3 miles (4.828 KM)"
That was marginally entertaining for awhile.
Cheers! Rich
At the shop where I sit, there's a 6' vernier caliper than can resolve
0.001", but it has to be 72 degrees F in the shop. ;-)Cheers! Rich
No problem, they probably strike if it isn't.
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