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  1. 23rd November 2005, 10:53 AM #1
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    Default Fractions and mm

    I am forever looking up imperial fraction settings to mm conversions.

    Extracting my digit, I generated my own and thought it may be of use to others. I now have a number of copies of this table around the workshop.
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    Thanks Burn I'll use that.

    I often feel like I need an interpretor when they start talking in imperial measurements.
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    Some other useful tables - not all of them open

    http://www.modernscrews.com/html/useful_tables.html
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    Lee Valley used to give out a credit-card-sized conversion table to their customers for fractions of an inch to mm and decimal inches. I have found it invaluable. Maybe Rob Lee would consider reviving it.

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    I have found that lurking on an international forum used to bring me no end of conversion stress, most often for Celcius/Farenheight conversions. I found the formula for the conversion (yes it is a complex one) and entered it into an Excel spreadsheet, all I had to do from there was type in the measurements I wanted and it would pop out the answer instant and to the point, with just one number entry. Easy! and at my fingertips all the time
    I now have all sorts of conversions on the one sheet, and No worries.
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    Burn,

    Nice idea - might print it out myself.

    Here's another way of doing it. Just about all verniers have both mm and imperial units on them. Set the vernier to the imperial measurement and then measure off the metric reading. Of course the problem with my method is that verniers either do imperial as fractional or as thousandths but not both!
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    I use this one at work
    http://www.jennessent.com/unit_conv/...tallation1.htm

    Like a broard spectrum one, there are 'some' conversions not there:confused:
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    Try convert on
    http://www.joshmadison.com/software/
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    Thanks Burn. very useful.
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    If your going to have the PC running then you may as well use this
    http://www.onlineconversion.com/
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    Geeeeeesussss you guys!!!!!!!!!!!

    I gotta tell ya I'm no quantum physics PHD or even close but you really need conversion calculators for fractions???????? :eek:

    Try this.........

    Divide top fraction # by bottom fraction # & multiply result by 25.4........ answer is in mm.
    A simple calculator is all thats required
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