"Imperial" DOMINO - Inches Please!

[Dan Clermont]

We Canadians think Metric when we drive and Imperial when we cut.

I was concerned when I got my TS-55 and it was in metric but you know 25mm on the scale is purt near an inch. 12.5mm is 1/2".

I'd actually like to convert my thinking to metric and lose imperial as working with simple numbers might be easier then adding 32nd's to 1/4's and such. Less chance for a mistake. I am good at math so my accountant friends tell me when it comes to splitting up the pub bill but metric seems pretty darn easy once you use it for awhile.

Dan C

 

[Eli]

I used imperial for 30+ years. I only switched in April. I freaKed out when I first moved here, thinking it would be so hard. After all, only in the last five years did I really get good at adding fractions. So my first purchase was a Stanley 8m/20' tape. That made everything really confusing, because I didn't know which system to measure in and was trying to mentally convert everything. Not to mention when you're reading that tape upside down it really does your head in. So my second tape was a Stabila 8m metric tape. All of a sudden, things were easy to measure, add, and convert. I got comfortable using metric in about three weeks, I speak in feet sometimes still, but don't use them at all for work. I've got an imperial tape measure as a gift for anyone who visits.

 

[joiner1970]

I am 36 we went metric in England when I was born but I and most people my age grew up using both so how confusing do you think that was.

 

[Spike]

Nations which have not adopted the metric system

NOW THATS FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

 

[woodshopdemos]

I have 68 years plus of imperial and don't need to change. So the plunge saw has metric, I set it by using a thickness or two of boards that I will be cutting. No imperial and no metric, just a good cut. Same with Domino. I have the case of 5mm, 8mm and so on but I don't look at the sizes, just the sight of the tenon. It is fat or slim.
   If a woman is 85 D, would you decide not to look cause you couldn't know how stacked she is?  not me.

 

[Frank Pellow]

Nations which have not adopted the metric system

NOW THATS FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

I think it's sad.  Sad that some have not, not that most have.

But, what the map does not show is countries such as Canada and the UK which have officially gone metric, but in practice are dragging their heals and have not fully converted.  I wish we in Canada would get on with it and really convert to metric.

 

[woodshopdemos]

... I wish we in Canada would get on with it and really convert to metric.

  Aren't you still spending time and money converting to two languages?