plastic rod and the metric system

[Warmaster Romulas]

Originally Posted by Ides

and you still came out of it smeling better than america. give yourselves a round of applause!

Remember the USA was a english colony
and now we are the empire imposing our will on the world in the name of freedom
i think that smells great

[hairyyahoo]

hmmm...this is moving into potentially risky territory here. back on topic i think.

[Warmaster Romulas]

i dont mean any thing bad by it what i meant was that the english colonized the planet
think about it there isnt a corner of the planet that hasnt had the Union Jack flying over head at one time or another
in every continent
and from such a small island
very impressive

[GriplionGremlin]

Originally Posted by Perturabo

Try working on an aircraft that has both Imperial and Metric bolts on it! And then to confuse matters even more some of the bolts have a different thread system to the others!!

been there, done that. would have gotten the stupid t-shirt but the ordanance guys had a better one and i had too much blood dripping from my hands...... at times it really sucks being an airframer on the harrier (or atleast a former airframer)

@ hairy - i searched google for you for some conversion charts:

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/fra...-decimals.html
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/length_conversion.php


dont poke your eyes out playing with those rods!!!

[chromedog]

Yes, you yanks and brits use inches in 40k, just like us aussies (and we don't even use inches as a standard measurement anymore.) We went metric back in 1966.

But to answer your question on whether other countries play in metric. The French and Spanish 40k rulebooks are done using metric measurements. I think a few other euro rulebooks also use metric, but offhand, I can't recall which ones they are.

As for "imperial" measures. We have to deal with both yank and brit imperial measures on nuts and bolts - and they are both different from metric. So much so that we have special "metrinch" wrenches (spanners) here where I work.

[Rhaalidor]

OK,

Since nobody ever answered the OP, here it is:

If you have a Standard measurement, and want to go to Metric (inches to mm), multiply the inch measurement by 25.4 IE: 1" = 25.4mm and .040" = 1.016 or roughly 1mm.

If you have a Metric mesurement and want to go to Standard, divide by 25.4 IE: 2mm = .078" or roughly .080".

BTW, they call it Standard measure in the US, for about 40 years now. Imperial measure is only good for liquids.

I'm a machinist, and use these simple coversions daily, but I'm really surprised that NOBODY remembers this from school.