I can see someone relating to their shoe being a foot long, but this I truly cannot understand. One hundredth of a mm, the standard unit on metric micrometers, is equal to 2.5 thousandths of an inch. Surely you can measure small distinctions with that. The downfall when trying to use both systems is where they meet. Lets say you have a dip of 10 mm and you find it is a bit too shallow. You want to add .008". How many mm is that now? ( I know, I did the math - it is 10.2 mm, but why deal with conversion?) It is conversion that screws you up and makes it unwieldy and clumsy. Jurgen Goering On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:09, Alan Eder wrote: > We have long used metric exclusively for regulating in our shop. > However, the thousandth of an inch is still very handy for really > small measurements and distinctions, so we refuse to part with it! > > Alan Eder -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 900 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080205/d732fc15/attachment.bin
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