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PekkaNF:
OK 1:1  :lol:

I still quote 2*4 when I go lumberyard, even tought it has been pahsed out least 30 years ago :thumbup:

Anyway when I pick up 2*4 off the car no one come and try give me any grief. Just think how bad it would sounds if I were to say "You gona get a swing at 50*100 mm" :headbang:

Likevice when people quote clearances and fits in iperial units I don't have a foggiest idea. Probably it's a matter of getting used to one system.

PekkaNF

RossJarvis:
When I'm in the metal workshop, I think in millimetres and decimal (apart from on the mill when I have to convert to imperial decimal).  When doing carpentry I think in inches and fractions (duodecimal?).

I've just been down the wood yard with two cutting lists, one in inches, one in meters.  All their sizes are now metric(ish). You can imagine the fun I had trying to work that out as I had to cut to size myself.

Brass_Machine:
Hiya Ross,

Welcome to the collective :borg:

Eric

Meldonmech:
Hi Ros
              Welcome to the forum, it's a change to have guys working with timber. When we first decimalised I went down to the local ironmongers for some timber,  and asked for some 2x1 inch timber.  The owner was quick to correct me and replied it's all 50x25 now mate.  Ok I said,  give me four metres.  He replied we only stock 6ft lengths.

                                                     Cheers David

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