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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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You don't have to admit if you didn't already know this. I will admit that this video made me regret the cumulative hours, maybe even days of my life spent doing mental fractions. So simple, so obvious, so stupid of me to not have realized this myself.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wNlLY4CN4Nk?feature=share
Lol! ... sorry dude, but although I understand the dilemma, I can't relate to it ... all of my life I've been using metric, which makes things the hell of a lot easier, brain-wise.
 

strantor

Joined Oct 3, 2010
6,875
Lol! ... sorry dude, but although I understand the dilemma, I can't relate to it ... all of my life I've been using metric, which makes things the hell of a lot easier, brain-wise.
Well 7/19ths of a monometer ain't no different than 7/19ths of foot, so...

Yeah, yeah, I know we are past due for the upgrade to metric. I've started using metric fasteners in my projects. But our boards... I think they will always be the same shape.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,762
Well 7/19ths of a monometer ain't no different than 7/19ths of foot, so...

Yeah, yeah, I know we are past due for the upgrade to metric. I've started using metric fasteners in my projects. But our boards... I think they will always be the same shape.
Here's a dirty little secret of mine ... I prefer inch fasteners to metric ones (shame on me!) ... I think the screw threads are more robust in inch screws ... all you have to do is compare the thread of a 1/8" inch screw (#5-40-UNC) to that of an M3 ... I think the M3 thread is a little too fine for my taste.
 
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strantor

Joined Oct 3, 2010
6,875
Here's a dirty little secret of mine ... I prefer inch fasteners to metric ones (shame on me!) ... I think the screw threads are more robust in inch screws ... all you have to do is compare the thread of a 1/8" inch screw (#5-40-UNC) to that to an M3 ... I think the M3 thread is a little to fine for my taste.
This is one of those simple things that you can make really complicated if you want to. Depends on how deep you want to get. Ratio of diameter to pitch, thread profile, tolerance classes H0-H7, etc. It can be less intuitive than it seems. Here's "middle-of-the-road" level of "into the weeds":

 
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