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Title: Metric conversion
Post by: dolphin on April 20, 2010, 08:39:34 am

Hi Steve,

Could you please create a Metric Conversion table of some sort that we can link to on the forum or blog?

All this talk of pints and quarts, 3/4 and 1/2 inches doesn't mean that much to us "foreigners" who have been metric for so long.   

We can only buy timber in millimetres and our liquids come in millilitres and litres.

Cheers,  David Dolphin

Title: Re: Metric conversion
Post by: dunk on April 20, 2010, 09:50:52 am

Dolphin,
It would seem to me that since you already deal with the metric end it might be easier for you to come up with something and send it to Steve for his approval and posting.  What ya think?

Just a thought.

Title: Re: Metric conversion
Post by: sgood on April 20, 2010, 10:43:10 am

Here is a cool google trick. Type 3/4 inch to mm. Google will return the conversion as the first result. Works both ways with most units of measure.

Title: Re: Metric conversion
Post by: dunk on April 20, 2010, 11:33:15 am

Well,
I learn something new everyday.  I had no Idea you could do that.
Thanks for the lesson!

Title: Re: Metric conversion
Post by: wllcpenney on April 20, 2010, 06:21:34 pm

here is a site that your can use to convert http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_common.htm

Title: Re: Metric conversion
Post by: dolphin on April 21, 2010, 09:40:46 am

I knocked this up using Excel.

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