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Opps sorry I thought the cylinder went all the way down ? to a 3J chuck However I still found it very interesting. And will be of use to be. Thank you David of Abingdon. Uk

Thank you very much for the idea. [ Easier to set up than a four jaw chuck if you have no virtually no experience of same. Equally - Easy for those who have I4J skill. ] David of Abingdon, UK

Dave, It all comes down to how long and how much one uses the unit. (Fortunately, time is the same unit in both systems, and a second in imperial is the same as a second in metric.) For single units

MY wife once added up all the receipts for a free motorcycle I had . Yep ya guessed it, it wasn't so free .I think I can finally say at this stage of my life that really do not need any more mechanic

Any you work on UK the pipe threads are different like ? pipe is 28 tpi and America is 27 tpi.. There are other differences in threads too. When the UK when metric it was lot easier to work on. Dave

LOL, a friend ( I think he was 17 at the time) couldn’t believe his luck when he chanced on an old Rolls Royce for sale cheap (bc it needed engine work and weirdly RR mechanics were kind of rare in

Need to put a square shaft in steady rest. Photo only

Where rule of thumb ? would have help. In 1980 there Canada airline need fuel ? in America.? The convert what to gallons needing10,000 gal. The had a haywire fuel gauge so got make to Canada to

It is only for watching TV. When get down to the real world then calculations FYI If you see temperature of 50°C it is HOT ? and 20°C not to bad of day. Dave

In the end of the 1950s, my parents gave me a Snap-On socket set as a Christmas present, *in UK Whitworth* so that I could work on my 1955 Austin Healey. I learned to deal with it then - just another

A rule of thumb for monkey marks. A metric is about one yard. A KM is about 0.6 mile A Liter is about qt A KG is about 2.2 pounds This is close just helps watching TV Dave

The last vestige of Official ‘metrification' of the US is right in my backyard https://www.geographyrealm.com/the-only-metric-highway-in-the-united-states/

Try buying 5,000 12mm 1.25 bolts in 1976. You could only buy a standard tap. Today is not problem . Even in 1993 to buy a 25 mm shaft you goto machine shop and have turn to get 25mm shaft. I did get

EZ View are not worth the money: the aluminum scales are not robust and between them and the poor readers & displays you will not be happy. Virtually all of the issues people have had with TouchDRO

I'm not sure I've concluded anything. I guess there are seven options. 1) Do nothing. Use the existing dials and measure the part as I go. 2) Get some magnetic dial indicators or bases and use those

It actually happened during WWII, prior to that there were many different places doing conversions around 25.4mm to the inch, but during WWII they had one company making the gauge blocks for everyone

Dave, I’m sure you know it doesn’t work that way! Reality is reality. We have enough trouble trying to get kids to understand the actual conversion so this would really mess them up and confuse

I would hope so. I took chemistry and physics in high school 60 years ago and we used the metric system. I taught a medical electronics class in junior college about 40 years ago, and spent a week or

Can be a pain to work some older homes with real 2x4 new do not fit right. I also run cross 1? x 3? too. I do not just live or else where. Dave

so mr chrisser what is your conclusion