On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:42 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: ... snip > I am a imperial guy who is annoyed with the metric system. I have worked > in metric a lot but still don't know what a meter looks like except that > it close to a yard. To me a MM is .039 approx and a little bigger than > 1/32 of an inch. Centimeters? Forget about that! Machine shop work > here in the states has all been in mm so what the heck is 764 mm, 1200 > mm what the heck is the rime or reason to that. I guess that was > intended to make it easy for us dumb machinist that aren't capable of > using centimeters, so now we unwashed ones don't even know what a > centimeter is :'( > Doug
For me, I find it easier to not try to translate, but use the metric values as they are. Instead of thinking 10mm is .3937 inches, I think, 10mm is about the width of my pinky fingernail or the wrench size for most of the bolts on my motorcycle. As time goes on, now that I am using metric a lot more, I'm finding I'm getting a feel for the size without the reference cues. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
