Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density

Ken Hart wrote:
> "scenic_man" <zcukpkn02@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> QUICK: What's the next standard drill size down from 13/64" ?
>> The next one down the line in my box of drill bits.
> 
> Do you mean the next actual drill bit, or the next empty hole where
there's 
> _supposed_ to be a drill bit?! (Where the hell is that 3/16" bit?!)

Er, no, where bit is supposed to be.  Some people put there bits back in 
the organizer.
OTOH, there are plenty of people who don't need organizers,
and would just say "Oh, the next size smaller?  It's under the red rag,
next to the 11/16" box-open-end wrench."

> BTW, in a 1/64" bit set (which I assume because the question asks the
next 
> size expressed as X/64"), the next size down from 13/64" would be
12/64". 
> However, we do the math, and find that 12/64" equals 6/32" which equals 
> 3/16".

Well, *some* of us do the math.  I'm one of those that has to,
because I don't use those tools often enough these days.
But when I did (when I worked on my own car (an original Beetle)),
I just *knew* what wrench was smaller or larger and would fit.
Interestingly, my relatively small collection of "English" wrenches 
would fit
not only the "English" (well, they *were* English, then) nuts and bolts
but the metric ones as well -- but very few of the metric wrenches
were good for anything but the exact size they were.


> Now where the hell is that chuck key?! 

On it's tether to the drill cord!  :-)
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