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Marthe48

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23. The hardest thing about metric is converting from English

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Reply #7)

Sun Jan 29, 2023, 12:56 PM

Jan 2023

I took drafting courses and made things in the school machine shop. Converting from 1" to 2.54 cm and so on, was harder than making a screw using metric measurements.

BTW, I am proud to say that I made a working screw, and not a single one of the dimensions was correct. The world is better that I found a different career! lol

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