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Steve Demuth
02-05-2024, 9:57 AM
This is apropos of nothing, other than being a curious observation: 16 gauge metal is, to a very good approximation, 1.6 mm (or 16 tenths of a mm for the metric machinists among us) thick, which is, again to a woodworker's approximation, 1/16 of an inch.
Jim Becker
02-05-2024, 10:34 AM
There you go mixing measuring systems in the same sentence. LOL :D :D :D (but yes, a happy numeric coincidence that is)
Steve Demuth
02-05-2024, 10:42 AM
There you go mixing measuring systems in the same sentence. LOL :D :D :D (but yes, a happy numeric coincidence that is)
Yes, but I didn't advocate for any of them ;-)
mike stenson
02-05-2024, 11:06 AM
-40 is -40.
Rich Engelhardt
02-05-2024, 11:22 AM
16 - was also the age of Mrs. Doug Hutchison (remember Percy from the Green Mile?) - Jerry and Elvis asked him why he went for such an old spinster :D :D .
Steve Demuth
02-05-2024, 11:33 AM
-40 is -40.
And it's bloody cold in both systems.
Jim Koepke
02-05-2024, 11:50 AM
When it comes to wrenches, I always think of the 5/X factor >
5/32" = 4mm, 5/16" = 8mm, 5/8" = 16mm and so on.
Remembering this list also is helpful >
515079
British Whitworth (BSW) seems to have disappeared, though there are still a few in my flat wrench accumulation.
jtk
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