5/4 means ?

[siliconbauhaus]

that what Rod use to produce all those brilliant jigs ;P

half a koala = 150 mm

[JSCOOK]

Here is another measureing device that adds a different dimension to measures:

Guess where it is from?

Absolutely love it Lee!!!

Now when it gets misplaced or lost, it'll come back to me on it's own!

Now can we argue over what exact angle this is?

[siliconbauhaus]

when a koala cocks its leg it is exactly 22.5 degress...when it cocks a leg to fart its 30 degrees....Rod will back me up on this I'm certain

[siliconbauhaus]

so if your half a fart out....you're - 15 degrees

[JSCOOK]

when a koala cocks its leg it is exactly 22.5 degress...when it cocks a leg to fart its 30 degrees....Rod will back me up on this I'm certain

ROTFLMAO!!!! ....

[lrr]

Now if we could only just get the USA on board with metric, it would make everything easier ...

What, and have a 2X4 become a 50X100 ?? ... it'll never happen!

[JSCOOK]

When we Canadians built our "National Igloo" we only used 300mm to 1ft ...

*** ducks quickly and runs out of the room ***

[siliconbauhaus]

If you look up online you'll find that the canadian standard for ice is 1 block = 1 ft or 300 mm.

I happen to know that it took 1,578,363 blocks of ice to build the Canadian House of Parliment in Ottawa ( not toronto ;P ) and as an archtiect, it's a beautiful achievement not only for it's simplicity......but for its grab your gonads design

[Black wallnut]

Mate you need to chill with 355 ml of canada's finest.....or 12 oz of whatever you can find.

It all boils down to what your used to. I grew up imperial....but metric makes more sense imho.

Smile amigo and just think how much you and JSCook have added to your post counts with this silly little topic! If it makes ya feel any better I did help myself to a great American beer after my heated replies....Sam Adams Boston Lager; 'bout the only thing this redneck will buy with the name Boston in it.

MOLON LABE

[siliconbauhaus]

I started this "silly" little topic by asking what 5/4 lumber meant and happend to mention I miss using metric.

Your response to that was a bit unexpected and provocational so the rest of the thread was a tongue in cheek game.

As for adding to post counts, who cares anyways?

[JR]

I happen to know that it took 1,578,363 blocks of ice to build the Canadian House of Parliment in Ottawa ( not toronto ;P ) and as an archtiect, it's a beautiful achievement not only for it's simplicity......but for its grab your gonads design

And the height of the Peace Tower is 291'! I learned this from a matchbook back before the conversion.


So there!

JR

[gsmittle]

Ya'll are makin' my brain hurt....

Back in the '70s wasn't the US going to do a "soft change" to metrics, meaning it would take a few years? Aside from the road signs, I don't see much in metric in my part of the country.

As an aside, for the past four years I've had an American student who spent her formative years in Saudi Arabia. She's much more fluent in metrics, and when I needed particular hardware I had to tell her the metric equvalent. So instead of asking her to grab a box of 3" carriage bolts, I'd have to say "approximately 7.5 centimeters."

Simplicity is good.

g.

[JR]

Back in the '70s wasn't the US going to do a "soft change" to metrics, meaning it would take a few years? Aside from the road signs, I don't see much in metric in my part of the country.

I remember that ill-fated attempt at conversion. A lot of people complained, so it was finally abandoned. The only that made me scratch my head was the parking sign that said "12 minute limit". I figure some knucklehead beuracrat figured that time needed to be expressed in decimal increments.

JR

[Tom Slick]

the worst part about the metric system is how much sense it makes. why in the heck would I want to use a system that is based on 10s no matter what you are measuring? I pefer to have a system that is based on 4s, 8s, 12s, 16s, 32s and other odd numbers. why use a system that a common measurement is a kilometer, 1000 meters, that makes waaaaay to much sense. I perfer complicated measurements like a mile, 5280 feet, then divide it by 12 to figure out inches, that just a good challenge!

[Black wallnut]

I'm thinking that aside from the base of twelve mostly it is the hurdle of fractions that makes it complicated and cumbersome for many. In defense of imperial measure it is simply a matter of 1/2! 1/2 = 2/4= 4/8 = 8/16 = 16/32 = 32/64= 64/128 = .5! I will conceede that it is rather cumbersome to add 6 3/8 + 7 5/16. That said it is just what I've become accustomed to in my 43 years on this rock. I think and dream in feet, inches, miles and acres. Then throw into the mix grains, bushels, rods, fluid ounces, dry ounces, pints, quarts, gallons and 1/5's or 750 ml.

In woodworking measure part of the problem expands to confuse in that lumber is sized, at least under imperial measure, in nominal sizes not actual. Hence a 2" x 4" has not been for years nor has 3/4" plywood been 3/4" plywood for a long time. Then add into the mix that there is still variance in plywood thickness depending on mill it was produced in. It would make life easier if 3/4" ply was replaced with 20 mm yet my rough estimate makes it close to 17 mm. To me that seems just as random of a size as 23/32"

I fear this debate between imperial measure vs metric will be with us for quite some time although the metric is slowly taking over. Heck just look to wine, medicine, and track.

Oh yeah BTW 5/4 does mean a nominal 1.25"