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.1905 what is that? 3/4" = .75" the problem arises when you try to transfer from one standard to the other! Even so if whole numbers and decimals based on a system of ten is so good why exactly is it that there are metric screw pitches of .7, .8, 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, and 1.75 seems a little bit limiting to me.
9mm eh? 230 grains of hydra shock .451 diameter moving about 850 fps. has a much better track record of working every time. Besides the hottest 9mm is a .38 super, clearly an inch based round!Last edited by Black wallnut; 01-27-2007, 09:49 PM.Donate to my Tour de Cure
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but since a finished 2x4 is actually 1 3/4x 3 1/2, is a 50 x 100 really 43.75 x 87.5?
you don't need a fancy calculator to get fractions into decimals. for 28 and 7/32s just punch in 7 divided by 32 equals plus 28 and you'll get the decimalized number.Mike
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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.Comment
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Actually 2x4 is 1.5" X 3.5" when finished therefore = 38mm x 89mm"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn". by C.S. LewisComment
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yes you can do that with no problems.
I have a fractional calculator because I'm fed up with trying to add up all the 1/4 3/8 and all the rest of the crap. If you build in metric you dont bother with all of that crap.
All sheet goods these days are made metric, so maybe they know something everyone else doesn'tComment
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Gotta give them time I guess ... BTW, I do recall seeing a few road signs recently in the USA with metric listed on them as well, so they are gradually being assimilated (resistance is futile)"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn". by C.S. LewisComment
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I grew up with both. Learned feet and inches to start and by the time I hit seventh grade I was into metric. Now I can switch from one to the other with out any real problems. Does that make me bi-lingual?From the "deep south" part of Canada
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I did exactly the same. Everything is metric is an equivilent to a imperial measure but without all the 1/8th crap/.
My father was in charge of converting his local assembly plant to metric...and they switched. Consruction is the last bastion not to convert. One of of these days the construction industry will wake up and see what everyone else in the world is doing.Comment
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Actually, all structural steel in Canada is in Metric .. as for construction drawings & plans, we sort of use both systems pending on who's doing the drawings, and for what project ... Government work is in metric (or at least back when I working in the public sector) ..."Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn". by C.S. LewisComment
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Over the years I have collected plans from Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, etc. The chosen unit of measure has never been a hinderence. My adirondack chairs actually came from a UK book and was all metric.From the "deep south" part of Canada
Richard in Smithville
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Do you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
For a kickback demonstration video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/910584...demonstration/Comment
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