Imperial drill bits
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Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck!
Tend to use drillfix for all the non standard sized stuff
https://www.drillfix.co.uk/Products...-imperial-drills-premium-box-qty-5/CB101-1032
https://www.drillfix.co.uk/Products...-imperial-drills-premium-box-qty-5/CB101-1032
pgrbff
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Depends on wood or metal bit? I used to get lip and spur from Axminster
It's unlikely he'll use a lip and spur for metalwork. 
Hawkenwald
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If you or a friend are planning a vacation in USA you'll get imperial sizes over there.
Maybe not very practical, but you never know......
Maybe not very practical, but you never know......
pgrbff
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There are projects that use both wood and metal that might be primarily metal.It's unlikely he'll use a lip and spur for metalwork.
Stevekane
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12.7mm seems to be a common enough size,,and my local bargain bucket shop seems to often get imperial sized bits,, lt sure how or why?
Steve.
Steve.
He did post the question in "general metalworking"
Vann
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Interesting question. Imperial sized drill bits are still readily available over here (New Zealand), and I'd have thought you guys use imperial measurements more than we do these days.
Cheers, Vann.
Cheers, Vann.
Having grown up with imperial and pounds/shillings then going through decimalisation and going metric there are now rumours that our circus at the top wants to go back to imperial with pounds and ounces to highlight we are not in the EU. Just having imperial fasteners on American and Canadian wood working tools gives me enough problems without having a bigger mixup on our own doorstep.
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J-G
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I do wish people would not try to beat the 'circus at the top' with an unwarranted stick!!
The 'proposal' isn't - and never was - to 'Return to Imperial measure', it is to remove the legal requirement to specify weights and measures primarily in Metric units. It is already legal to use Imperial measures as a 'secondary' piece of information. It will NOT affect the use of metric fasteners.
When Zaire was created (Re-named) from DRC, they insisted that ALL measures MUST be specified in metric terms and would not accept invoices for ' ½" BSP Dies for 3/4" Coventry Diehead ' - That was the stupidity that you are intimating is going to happen - which is simply untrue!
The 'proposal' isn't - and never was - to 'Return to Imperial measure', it is to remove the legal requirement to specify weights and measures primarily in Metric units. It is already legal to use Imperial measures as a 'secondary' piece of information. It will NOT affect the use of metric fasteners.
When Zaire was created (Re-named) from DRC, they insisted that ALL measures MUST be specified in metric terms and would not accept invoices for ' ½" BSP Dies for 3/4" Coventry Diehead ' - That was the stupidity that you are intimating is going to happen - which is simply untrue!
Nothings imposible with the current bunch of clowns at the top! They need more than a good beating because there is no reason to remove any legal requirement that would allow people to sell in any unit of measurement they fancy, we are now metric and used to what we have, seeing pounds and ounces would be a backward move.
J-G
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I'm sure that Steven Thorburn would disagree!
Thoburn.
J-G
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Oooops! - auto-pilot on
J-G
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The government may well merit some chastisement but it ought to be on matters of consequence. The issue of Metric / Imperial measures is not one of them and using irrelevant argument devalues and masks the real issues.
Please pay good attention to this reply. There is very little engineering need today to buy imperial drills. The standard increment for metric drills is 0.1mm, or four thou' in freedom units. Unless you are into doing serious mental gymnastics over letter and number drills, that increment is finer than the standard imperial increment of 1/64" (roughly 16 thou'), so metric drils have four times 'resolution' of imperial.
