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Mil is confusing. A lot of folk in metric countries say "mil" short for millimetre. A metre is considerably different to an inch.

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No, we don't. We usually say mm. Rough comparison: #10->10 mm^2 , 35 A fuse for main residence #12->6 mm^2, 25 A for stove #14->4 mm^2, 20 A water heater #16->2.5 mm^2, 16 Awashing machine, dishwasher #18->1.5 mm^2, 10 A lighting These figures are for one live conductor in a conduit inside the wall.

When I was in Rhodes (east Greece), we were camping with my 542nd mechanized infantry battalion, and there were lots of scorpions. We had brought a wooden bank with us, and at bed time I saw a sergeant laying to sleep on the bench. I asked, 'Is sir something wrong, I could help' he said just leave me alone. I learnt from his colleagues that he found a scorpion under his pillow (in his tent) and the "brave" sergeant decided to sleep on the bench. Soldiers wished to be bitten, so that they could get sick leave.

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.

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. :(

Yes they do, almost universally in the British speaking ones.

No, that's a THOU, for a thousandth of an inch.

Graham

Come to think of it, the prefix milli is just plain wrong. Either that or the word million in wrong.

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.