Domin-OH (wow)

bought last week. Bought the Festool hose ($75)to attach to my shop vac and another cutter ($37), which brings my investment to $562. He agrees that this was a great deal as it came with all of the alignment accessories and about 150 tenons of various sizes.

some scrap. SWEET. I just need to get used to looking at the world in millimeters rather than inches.

One caution, do not rely on the base of the Domino to accurately index from the bottom surface of the wood that you are working with. Always use the fence to hang the Domino from the top surface of the wood.

This goes for plate joiners also.

That's one thing Festool is good at, so much so that I have memorized the key strokes for conversion on every calculator/device I have, and have tape measure with inches and mm on opposite sides.

Congratulations on the Domino, and the excellent deal. The ability to _easily_ do floating tenon M&T joinery will open up a new world of possibilities for your woodworking endeavors.

Oddly mm's are a lot like a clock when comparing inches.

Approximately

I think it's worth mentioning that 3mm ~ 1/8" (its my primary conversion factor for gouges).

Quick ... and in your head: What's 21 3/32" in mm?

Yep, that's what I thought ... and what I'm talking about.

--------------------------------------------------------- Less than 25.6 mm.

Lew

Now, without doing anything else, and u$ing your above dimension, go cut

That's what I mean ... ;)

---------------------------------------- Now you want me to work?

Silly boy.

Lew

I calculate it to be quite a bit more than that.

Oops. Off the tip of my head..... 535.78130000000001 NOT!

I don't know, forget about the 3/32" for a minute, 21" by itself is more than half a meter...

I'd go 21*25.4 +3/4(3). The calculation induced from 24mm/in looks a little short.

--------------------------------------------------------- Lew Hodgett wrote:

------------------------------------------------- "Larry W" wrote:

--------------------------------------------------- Opps!

Now I know why I have cataract surgery scheduled.

Lew

--------------------------------------- Actually it is 540 mm.

Lew

No fair using your slide rule! : )

Bill

---------------------------------------- "Bill" wrote:

------------------------------------------ Still good to 3 decimel place accuracy.

Lew

Swingman wrote in news:3ISdnSo2ebQJI7bMnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

About half a meter...

Good enough for a "Quick and in your head" measurement.

I'll never make any cuts off a "Quick and in your head" conversion. All they're good for is magnitude checking.

Another useful magnitude check is meters to feet. Figure 1 meter is approximately 1 yard, and every 3 meters adds another foot. So multiply by 3, divide by 3 and add. By this method 25 m ~= 83.3 (~= means approximately equal), in reality it's 82.021'

Puckdropper

Actually it is 535.7813 mm