Yes I agree, but I'll bet he talks in that non SI of centimetres. They annoy me on TV. I was introduced to mm in 1978 and have always thought that way ever since.
Dave
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Sorting out drills
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That's OK for imperial to metric, but you haven't given the metric to imperial sizes.
Dave
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Maybe you could wait until I have made the imperial block, which will be separate from the metric block.
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I considered puting different colours on the drills, but decided to just mark the metric ones so people know which drill block to put a drill into. Since I used the actual drill to drill each hole, the drills won't go into the wrong hole.
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Two shed-loads and four drill presses! Next I'll be sorting out the drills from half inch to about two inch.
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So how would you address someone called Miles?
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The name Miles has got nothing to do with measurement.
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^ | Millimetric, in fact.
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You call him Gib (Miles is my first name).
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You don't find yourself wanting to call him Kilometres then?
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What about the Zoll?
Would you like to remind us how many mm that is ?
25.4, isn't it ?and what about power output of a car engine, people tend to use Ps (Pferdestärke) rather than the metric wattage, don't they
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Well, I had assumed that someone working in a metric environment would use a metric vernier - but here goes:
mm drill
1.00 1.0mm 1.50 1.5mm 2.00 2.0mm 2.50 2.5mm 3.50 3.0mm... etc., etc.,
(I can't be bothered to fire up Excel again and calculate it in 1/25.4ths of an inch ...)
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The name Miles has got nothing to do with that, either.
No.
No idea.
Horses are more metric than imperial, given that they must have been brought here by the Romans.
MM
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No you don't do you
The metric unit is (k)W
If its Roman, it has to be imperial doesn't it (or did that go over your head too?)
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In message , Terry Casey writes
Asymptotic are they ?
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Rome wasn't always an empire.
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Don't spoil a good punchline
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It was when they brought the horses over. Or maybe geoff thinks the chariots were self-driven in some way.
MM
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That's roughly 100% correct.
Is it really? I did not know that. Thanks for telling me!
No idea.
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I just think you don't realise just how many non-metric units you were exposed to as an inselaffe abroad