PDF for Cabinets in Metric?

[dinkjs]

So I have been working in Imperial for awhile and now that I have accumilated some Festool Products and those are in metric I think it is time to switch to metric measurements.

I have looked online and i can not find a PDF that gives me the measurements for each part of a standard cabinet box or door..Yes yes I know it works out ina 32mm system.  But I would still like to have something on file that has metric measurement instead of imperial which most of my books have.

Does anyone have a PDF with a break down of a cabinet in metric measurements instead of imperial????

 

[Brice Burrell]

I'm not sure if this is specifically what you are asking for but you might find it helpful all the same.
Kiss II  I'd recommend you read the whole thing so you completely understand the context, however, pages 6 and 7 have the measurements in metric and imperial for 32mm cabinets parts in the KISS system if you want to jump right to it.

 

[dinkjs]

I think I just figured out how to build a NASA Rocket ship with that....I was hoping for something alittle more user friendly

 

[Kev]

I think I just figured out how to build a NASA Rocket ship with that....I was hoping for something alittle more user friendly

That's no good - you'd only be able to open the doors in perfect weather comditions and the drawers would only operate in a vacuum.

 

[Stone Message]

I am not answering the question but would like to comment about moving to metric.

I was made to go metric about 30 years ago when the UK adopted the system. I hated it for the first few months because...it was different.

Then I found that I no longer had to do complicated sums to add, divide, take away or multiply lengths - with the metric system it is so easy. Take a simple case of seeing how many 1 foot 3 9/16 inch pieces you can get from a 14 foot length. You can round up to the nearest inch and then divide it into 14x12 inches. If you want to do it accurately on a calculator you have to convert the 9/16th to a fraction decimal before you start. Now see how easy it is to work out how many 324mm lengths there are in 3.5 metres - 3500 divided by 324 - easy to do the whole number maths in your head and even easier to do the sum on a calculator.

I now work to 0.1mm (Festool helps here) and expect to have finished items to within 0.5mm. Even when I was younger I would forget whether that measurement was 11 and 13/16ths or 13 and 11/16ths (3 separate sets of digits to remember). I would hate to do any of this now. I am more likely to remember 298mm for the length of time it takes to set up a cut! Anyone wanting to make any jokes about this please state your age first!

Do not worry about going metric - you will appreciate it in the long run.

Peter

 

[Kev]

My family left the UK in 1965 and came to Australia. I'd barely started school back then and started learning imperial measurements, then learnt both imperial and metric as Australia switched systems ... with school ultimately teaching only metric a couple of years further on. During this time Australia also switched from pounds to dollars.

Round this time my mum and dad ran a small store that was a post office, bank agency and a haberdashery store (selling wool and stuff).

I found it comical to watch those poor old men and women coming into the shop and struggle with both measurement and currency systems changing ... having been taught both systems and conversions with a young fresh mind, the rest of the world was looking pretty daft! [big grin]

All this said - I'd never buy a tool these days if it didn't have metric calibration. You can go into a hardware store and still buy a square with imperial markings, but I think we only have one more generation to pass!

 

[Wooden Skye]

Highland woodworking has a chart that converts fractional to decimal to millimeters.  I believe I found it under the library tab.  This might help, but you would still need a calculator. An example or 2 from the chart is 1/2" =.500=12.700mm or 1"=1.000=25.400 mm.  I dont know how to insert a link, sorry.

 

[sancho57]

I have a app on my Iphone that converts

 

[dinkjs]

Highland woodworking has a chart that converts fractional to decimal to millimeters.  I believe I found it under the library tab.  This might help, but you would still need a calculator. An example or 2 from the chart is 1/2" =.500=12.700mm or 1"=1.000=25.400 mm.  I dont know how to insert a link, sorry.

I already have a conversion chart in my garage