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I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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Anywhere there's a pitch in tpi, you convert it into millimetres by dividing into 25.4. So a 10 tpi blade corresponds to approximately 2.5mm pitch, 14 tpi to 1.8.?
Length is usually specified in millimetres?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:01 Jerry Durand, < jdurand@...> wrote: I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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So, are they sold as "1.8-2.5mm pitch blade" or will they look at me like I'm a crazy expat?
I guess maybe it's best to just take a blade to a local shop and point.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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Anywhere there's a pitch in tpi, you convert it into millimetres by dividing into 25.4. So a 10 tpi blade corresponds to approximately 2.5mm pitch, 14 tpi to 1.8.?
Length is usually specified in millimetres?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:01 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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I guess so. Here in Australia we've been metric for more than 40 years but most stores can cope with you or mm pitch. OTOH I just buy 14 or 18 tpi as needed.
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:33 Jerry Durand, < jdurand@...> wrote: So, are they sold as "1.8-2.5mm pitch blade" or will they look at me like I'm a crazy expat?
I guess maybe it's best to just take a blade to a local shop and point.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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On Feb 25, 2020, at 20:29, Giordano < john.nurick@...> wrote:
Anywhere there's a pitch in tpi, you convert it into millimetres by dividing into 25.4. So a 10 tpi blade corresponds to approximately 2.5mm pitch, 14 tpi to 1.8.?
Length is usually specified in millimetres?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:01 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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I just checked a couple of Australian and French vendor websites. The Australian ones still use tpi, the French use mm pitch for ordinary blades but seem to use 10/14 for variable pitch.
Where are you heading?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:33 Jerry Durand, < jdurand@...> wrote: So, are they sold as "1.8-2.5mm pitch blade" or will they look at me like I'm a crazy expat?
I guess maybe it's best to just take a blade to a local shop and point.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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On Feb 25, 2020, at 20:29, Giordano < john.nurick@...> wrote:
Anywhere there's a pitch in tpi, you convert it into millimetres by dividing into 25.4. So a 10 tpi blade corresponds to approximately 2.5mm pitch, 14 tpi to 1.8.?
Length is usually specified in millimetres?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:01 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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Just north of Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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I just checked a couple of Australian and French vendor websites. The Australian ones still use tpi, the French use mm pitch for ordinary blades but seem to use 10/14 for variable pitch.
Where are you heading?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:33 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
So, are they sold as "1.8-2.5mm pitch blade" or will they look at me like I'm a crazy expat?
I guess maybe it's best to just take a blade to a local shop and point.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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On Feb 25, 2020, at 20:29, Giordano <
john.nurick@...> wrote:
Anywhere there's a pitch in tpi, you convert it into millimetres by dividing into 25.4. So a 10 tpi blade corresponds to approximately 2.5mm pitch, 14 tpi to 1.8.?
Length is usually specified in millimetres?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:01 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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I once helped with business planning a resort in that part?of the world, but never got to visit.
Good luck!
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 13:06 Jerry Durand, < jdurand@...> wrote: Just north of Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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On Feb 25, 2020, at 21:04, Giordano < john.nurick@...> wrote:
I just checked a couple of Australian and French vendor websites. The Australian ones still use tpi, the French use mm pitch for ordinary blades but seem to use 10/14 for variable pitch.
Where are you heading?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:33 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
So, are they sold as "1.8-2.5mm pitch blade" or will they look at me like I'm a crazy expat?
I guess maybe it's best to just take a blade to a local shop and point.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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On Feb 25, 2020, at 20:29, Giordano <
john.nurick@...> wrote:
Anywhere there's a pitch in tpi, you convert it into millimetres by dividing into 25.4. So a 10 tpi blade corresponds to approximately 2.5mm pitch, 14 tpi to 1.8.?
Length is usually specified in millimetres?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:01 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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Interesting that we are all headed to metrics later this year.? When I started teaching Industrial Technology back in 1971,? we were all concerned that our world (U.S.) was moving to metrics soon.? We lost so much sleep worrying when it was going to happen and we would have to buy NEW measuring devices, change all the dials on equipment, and so on.? Now that I am OLD, I am still sleep deprived but NOT because of metrics.? I am not sure where you live or are moving to but metrics NEVER came to the U.S. as the only way of measuring in this country.? It just did NOT happen!? As others have stated 10-14 tpi is usual and common.? HF has a bi-metal hardened toothed that lasts a long time.? Use your 20% coupon for a savings.? DBQ49er
I just checked a couple of Australian and French vendor websites. The Australian ones still use tpi, the French use mm pitch for ordinary blades but seem to use 10/14 for variable pitch.
Where are you heading?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:33 Jerry Durand, < jdurand@...> wrote: So, are they sold as "1.8-2.5mm pitch blade" or will they look at me like I'm a crazy expat?
I guess maybe it's best to just take a blade to a local shop and point.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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On Feb 25, 2020, at 20:29, Giordano < john.nurick@...> wrote:
Anywhere there's a pitch in tpi, you convert it into millimetres by dividing into 25.4. So a 10 tpi blade corresponds to approximately 2.5mm pitch, 14 tpi to 1.8.?
Length is usually specified in millimetres?
On Wed, 26 Feb. 2020, 12:01 Jerry Durand, <
jdurand@...> wrote:
I was just thinking, as we'll be moving to metric-land later this year, what do I ask for when I shop for blades?? As in, what's the metric size?? Also, I use 10-14 tpi, is there a metric equivalent (not conversion, but actual number they use)?
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408 356-3886
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Iowa teachers were pushing the metric system back in the 1860"s. It sure would have been easy 160 years ago before there was so much standardization. Now we need both systems to get along. Paul M
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Aren't US made cars metric??
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:17 AM paul mcclintic via Groups.Io <cannontandem= [email protected]> wrote: Iowa teachers were pushing the metric system back in the 1860"s. It sure would have been easy 160 years ago before there was so much standardization. Now we need both systems to get along. Paul M
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Aren't US made cars metric??
? As a data point, the only standard wrench I've used in the last year was to tighten a trailer ball.? Everything else is metric.? The oldest thing I'm working on is a '98 F-150.?
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They changed them slowly, like 6 capscrews at a time which was a major pain.?
Put a clutch in a ‘92 F350. You’ll have every tool you own laying on the ground pulling the transmission.?
Just removing the drive lines took a coupe metric wrenches, a couple inch wrenches, an Allen, and a Torx. The trans/transfer case was ZF, and metric. The front. Rear diffs, Spicer, so inch.?
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Aren't US made cars metric??
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As a data point, the only standard wrench I've used in the last year was to tighten a trailer ball.? Everything else is metric.? The oldest thing I'm working on is a '98 F-150.?
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Metric is for people who can't understand fractions.
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Metric is for people who can't understand Furlongs per Fortnight.
Leon Robinson ?? K5JLR
Political Correctness is a Political Disease.
Politicians and Diapers should be changed
often and for the same reasons.
On Thursday, February 27, 2020, 10:37:16 AM CST, mondosmetals <jwrey@...> wrote:
Metric is for people who can't understand fractions.
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Slightly closer to on topic, I'd like to see a
construction worker who can read a tape measure half as well as
anyone using a 4x6 bandsaw!
On 2/27/20 1:20 PM, Leon Robinson
wrote:
Metric is for people
who can't understand Furlongs per Fortnight.
Leon Robinson ?? K5JLR
Political Correctness is a Political Disease.
Politicians and Diapers should be changed
often and for the same reasons.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408-356-3886
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I know some construction workers, who own band saws, and lathes…..and mills…..and are machinists, and welders……
So…..easy. I can show you several.
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Slightly closer to on topic, I'd like to see a construction worker who can read a tape measure half as well as anyone using a 4x6 bandsaw!
On 2/27/20 1:20 PM, Leon Robinson wrote:
Metric is for people who can't understand Furlongs per Fortnight.
Leon Robinson ?? K5JLR
Political Correctness is a Political Disease.
Politicians and Diapers should be changed
often and for the same reasons.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408-356-3886
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On 2/27/2020 5:07 PM, Jerry Durand
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Slightly closer to on topic, I'd like to see a
construction worker who can read a tape measure half as well as
anyone using a 4x6 bandsaw!
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? That would be me ... though almost all my experience (40+ years)
was with trim/finish work and building cabinets . I can frame , do
electrical and plumbing , design and build trusses , and all that
too - I'm sitting in a house I am still building . I must be halfway
decent with measuring devices , my parts - wood and metal - almost
always fit first try without any tweaking .
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I have a tape measure that has inch and mm!
Ralph
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 6:34 PM Terry Coombs < snagone@...> wrote:
On 2/27/2020 5:07 PM, Jerry Durand
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Slightly closer to on topic, I'd like to see a
construction worker who can read a tape measure half as well as
anyone using a 4x6 bandsaw!
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408-356-3886
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Har Har , you is a funny man!
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Slightly closer to on topic, I'd like to see a construction worker who can read a tape measure half as well as anyone using a 4x6 bandsaw!
On 2/27/20 1:20 PM, Leon Robinson wrote:
Metric is for people who can't understand Furlongs per Fortnight.
Leon Robinson ?? K5JLR
Political Correctness is a Political Disease.
Politicians and Diapers should be changed
often and for the same reasons.
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. +1 408-356-3886
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Actually guys around the world, bandsaw blades are manufactured from imperial dimensioned base stock.? Its 0.020", 0.025" or 0.035" thick, and TPI for tooth count at a nominal 1/2" wide (actually somewhere around 12.4mm so is neither metric nor imperial.? All the metric numbers quoted are conversions to 'near enough' equivalents.?
Base stock of ribbon is manufactured in USA, Germany, China etc and supplied to blade manufacturers big and small all around the globe.? They don't make 0.025" for North America and 0.65mm for the rest of us, 0.65mm blades all measure 0.635 (the exact conversion of 0.025"). Its all 0.025" no matter what they call it.?
TPI is universally understood by bandsaw people the world over.
You'll be fine ordering a 1/2"x 0.025" x 6TPI blade anywhere (it might be called 13mmx0.65mm here in NZ, but they still use 6TPI for the tooth count) - jv
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Jerry Durand
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