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Am I the only one ?
saw:
I am in the same club :doh:
sparky961:
A simple solution if the dial has both metric and imperial is just to keep a calculator beside the machine and convert to metric when you need to go more than one revolution or across the zero line. When I use this method and measure the part afterward, I find I'm much closer to the desired measurements.
Alternatively, you could start working in metric - unless you're American, in which case it would be a sin. ;)
-Sparky
DavidA:
Sparky,
I tend to work in a mixture of Imperial and Metric anyway. My age group seem to be more adept at this having been brought up in the cross over period.
As for the American thing, shame on you :) You'll be asking them to use Centigrade instead of Fahrenheit next.
As long as 0.001" on the dial corresponds wit 0.001" of vertical movement it isn't a problem. It was not realizing that there were not ten divisions between every whole number that caused the initial confusion.
Saw,
I feel much better now. :D
Dave
Apologies to my American friends; I couldn't resist it.
mklotz:
--- Quote from: DavidA on March 06, 2011, 03:49:41 PM ---Apologies to my American friends; I couldn't resist it.
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That's ok. We don't take seriously anything said by a bunch of wan guys who use a hundredweight that weighs 112 pounds.
bigmini:
--- Quote from: mklotz on March 06, 2011, 05:04:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: DavidA on March 06, 2011, 03:49:41 PM ---Apologies to my American friends; I couldn't resist it.
--- End quote ---
That's ok. We don't take seriously anything said by a bunch of wan guys who use a hundredweight that weighs 112 pounds.
--- End quote ---
Well that's including VAT or GST, or whatever :lol: I got used to converting back and forth in the workshop when we had one metric lathe and one imperial one- The one you wanted was always tied up doing something else. Now I have a metric one and I just stick to that mostly. Unless I'm repairing something or making a part that needs an imperial thread.
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