Re: C&S #47, an Sn3 C-16 conversion

Posted by John Greenly on Dec 13, 2020; 1:49am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-30-a-C-16-conversion-tp15055p16134.html

Ouch, yes, Todd!

 I work a lot with Brits, and in the UK nowadays everybody says "mil" for mm.   When I go there and say "millimeter" they look blank as if they'd never heard the word before.  When they come over here to work in my lab the confusion is horrible.  None of them had ever heard that a "mil" is .001" here, at least for most traditional machinists and old folks like me.

Cheers,
John

... and then, of course, there is HO scale, 3.5mm to the foot,  what a weird mashup of units that is!