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Slacking Dimensions?

Discuție în 'Locomotive Engineering M.I.C' creată de jonathonag, 3 Feb 2008.

  1. olly5764

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    yup, and I have had drawings at work from a company in france supplying to the States, calling for a bolt with a 25.4 x 3.175 pitch x 60 degree thread, or as engineers would know it, 1" 8un
     
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    If you're going to mix the two up, you really should do it properly; ie '7 foot 6 mil'.

    Who says metric and imperial can't work together?
     
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    Failing miserably to resist the temptation to enter pedant mode.

    You mean 6.35mm, don't you?
     
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    I don't know Brian, give you 25.4 mm, you take .914 meters!
     

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