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Is there a chance that some kind of converter or chart could be posted up that converts from 1/8" etc to mm and made a sticky somewhere?   I think it would be a help as the likes of me are stumped when we start seeing 1/16th, 1/8th blah blah.  3" 10" I can handle but the finer points of imperial I'm lost.As a side note:  I'm surprised that America hasn't grabbed a-hold on metric a lot faster, after all the imperial measurement comes from England, and didn't you lot break free from there a while ago?  Or are you still pretty tight?     I spose I should be thankful we're not talking in Whitworth...I'd rather be hunting........USE ENOUGH HEAT.......Drifting around Aussie welding more pipe up, for something different.....wanting to get home.
Reply:Originally Posted by wirehuntIs there a chance that some kind of converter or chart could be posted up that converts from 1/8" etc to mm and made a sticky somewhere?   I think it would be a help as the likes of me are stumped when we start seeing 1/16th, 1/8th blah blah.  3" 10" I can handle but the finer points of imperial I'm lost.As a side note:  I'm surprised that America hasn't grabbed a-hold on metric a lot faster, after all the imperial measurement comes from England, and didn't you lot break free from there a while ago?  Or are you still pretty tight?     I spose I should be thankful we're not talking in Whitworth...
Reply:One MM is about as thick as a dime.  Just under .040"David Real world weldin.  When I grow up I want to be a tig weldor.
Reply:So what does that make a 1/16th ?In a way I wish (yer right) that we where still in inches, but that would make life very boring. At the moment it's a laugh with any new boys, I send them to get some 4" and they stop and ask someone, "yep, there's some 100mm over there"       Then you get the new wannabe sheila/trying to ramrod, she just looks at me blankly if I mention inches.Like I say I can work in whole inches, but these bits of inches, well...Rojodiablo, I happen to know that 6.5mm=.264", but only cause it's my favorite calibre. Last edited by wirehunt; 12-01-2008 at 07:07 AM.I'd rather be hunting........USE ENOUGH HEAT.......Drifting around Aussie welding more pipe up, for something different.....wanting to get home.
Reply:While I'm at it.  How about a section for pipe welding?     Somewhere between this spot a general welding.  Just at thought.I like beer.I'd rather be hunting........USE ENOUGH HEAT.......Drifting around Aussie welding more pipe up, for something different.....wanting to get home.
Reply:25.4 mm/inch.  An inch can be neatly and correctly divided into 1/2,1/4/,1/8,1/16,1/32,1/64/,1/128 etc.  It also can be divided into tenths, hundredths, thousandths, tenthousandths, hundredthousands and so on for fine and accurate measuring devices. 1/25.4 of an inch = 1 mm or .03937 of an inch or setting it approximately equal to something between 1/16 and 1/32 of an inch which would put it close to 3/64 of an inch.As far as the metric system. Anyone born since about 1965 should have been taught both systems in school in the US, whether they remember it or not.  But there are legitimate reasons for using the inch/foot system.  It gives children visual references for learning fraction and is a segway into learning the decimal system.But as far as temperature:  the Celcius or the Centigrade scale is not as finely divided and one can experience a change in temperature with out recording any change in the C scale.0 degrees C=32 degrees F ? okay that seems fine, but consider that 100 C = 212 F, then somewhere somebody forgot to count.Esab Migmaster 250Lincoln SA 200Lincoln Ranger 8Smith Oxy Fuel setupEverlast PowerPlasma 80Everlast Power iMIG 160Everlast Power iMIG 205 Everlast Power iMIG 140EEverlast PowerARC 300Everlast PowerARC 140STEverlast PowerTIG 255EXT
Reply:This is a good website for conversionshttp://onlineconversion.com/
Reply:Yeah Lugweld, I never have figured that one out.....And then, after so much work...... you have it in your hand, and you look over to your side...... and the runner has run off. Leaving you holding the prize, wondering when the runner will return.
Reply:The federal government in all it's wisdom tried to change us to the metric system many years ago. The huge outcry againt it caused them to drop the idea. Now we are being converted by attrition as manufactures change to the foreign made fasteners and other components they use. Damn, I hate those metric bolts. I have a huge amount of inch wrenches and sockets that don't fit much of anything anymore. I can do fraction to decimal conversions and vise versa in my head and I'm slowly learning the millimeter conversion thing even thought I don't like it.Find a conversion chart and lay it close to your computer. That is what I would do if it were giving me problems.
Reply:Also, see the 'sticky' right up at the top line of this section of the forum with sheet metal gauge sizes.  It lists Gauge as well as inch and millimeter thicknesses.Or just divide/multiply by 25.4 mm / inch.1/16 inch x 25.4 mm/inch = 1.5875 mm1/8 inch x 25.4 mm/inch = 3.175 mm4 inch x 25.4 mm/inch = 101.6 mmOr get/print a conversion chart with inch fractions and inch decimals and millimeters on it.Oh, and temperature?  -40 C = -40 F  Brrrrr.  The best laid schemes ... Gang oft agley ...
Reply:American tool makers and retailers make twice the money since mechanics are forced to have both sets of tools.  They are quite happy to leave things the way they are.
Reply:The story I heard was that the U.S. thought about changing over to metric about the end of World War  one. BUT !  it would have cost American industry somewhere between 25-75 million dollars . Industry said  no thanks .[SIZE="5"Yardbird"
Reply:Americans as a whole are very resistance to any change regardless of whether or not it's good.  There are a hundred different versions of when America tried to go metric and why they didn't, but it's certainly made things complicated now.And then you have things like the National Electric Code, which went Metric, and did so in the most stupid way possible.  1/2", 3/4", etc. were all nominal measurements anyway, but instead of rounding off the Metric side (just the the fractional inches had, in effect, been rounded off from actual measurements) they converted to the exact millimeter of the nominal inch fraction.  So it's far harder to memorize and actually use.  Then again, maybe they were doing their bit to purposely make the Metric system look far harder to use than it really is.BTW, don't ANY of you ever tell my dad that I defend the Metric system.  I never hear the end of it as it is...
Reply:Download this little app, it converts just about anything to everything. Even Wotsits to wotnotshttp://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows/ Attached Images
Reply:Its not metric thats hard. Its always been conversion. So I stopped converting. I use decimal, fraction, metric measurers for the measure I need. No more converting. If it calls for 6.05mm I don't use decimal mike.
Reply:Originally Posted by lugweldBut as far as temperature:  the Celcius or the Centigrade scale is not as finely divided and one can experience a change in temperature with out recording any change in the C scale.0 degrees C=32 degrees F ? okay that seems fine, but consider that 100 C = 212 F, then somewhere somebody forgot to count.