Serendipity prevails! I've found what I needed to answer the question I forwarded yesterday to the list subscribers. Just happened to go to Radio Shack to pick up something else, and on their counter was a new calculator that will deal with feet, inches, and even fractions of inches! It's mainly intended to do calculations in inch-pound units, but it also does metric conversions, both into metric and from metric to inch-pound and gives a non-decimal readout! It's called the ProjectCalc (catalog number 65-540) and is on sale now for $20, regularly $25. The manufacturer is Calculated Industries, but is sold at Radio Shack outlets. http://www.calculated.com/products/8515.html?hobby Don
