Boat Building Forum

Find advice on all aspects of building your own kayak, canoe or any lightweight boats

Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size
By:Thor
Date: 9/9/2013, 7:07 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size (Etienne Muller)

You guys really need to discover millimetres.

Let me see, there are 63360 inches in a mile - 1.609km in a mile - so that makes 39369 inches to the km - divide that by 1000000 and we get mm per inch so, now that we can use a sensible decimal system we can easily calculate that my 8mm maroskes are in fact .315 inches or -3/8"

My Maroske holes are 8mm (.315 inches) slightly less than 3/8 th of an inch.

Et


I totally agree the metric system is great for most things. And those of us who use both know there are 25.4mm per inch. What does it say about us in the USA, that we are almost the only ones to keep using a system dreamed up by the British. Since you always talk about doing things with less work, I understand why you didn't start with a rod (aka pole or perch) :-)

The reason I mixed decimal and fractional inches is that is what the glue stick sellers/manufactures do. The webpage says 5/16" and the package says .28"

I really think 8mm (.315" or about 5/16") would be great, but that seems to be hard to find.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Maroske fittings hole size
Thor -- 9/9/2013, 12:04 am
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size
Etienne Muller -- 9/9/2013, 4:06 am
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size
Thor -- 9/9/2013, 7:07 pm
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 9/10/2013, 6:02 am
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/10/2013, 11:48 am
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size
John Messinger -- 9/9/2013, 6:15 am
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size *PIC*
Sean Dawe -- 9/9/2013, 7:59 am
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size
JohnAbercrombie -- 9/9/2013, 12:13 pm
Re: Strip: Maroske fittings hole size *PIC*
Sean Dawe -- 9/9/2013, 1:46 pm
Maroske fittings: Double lines
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/9/2013, 3:48 pm
Re: Maroske fittings: Double lines
Sean Dawe -- 9/9/2013, 6:34 pm
Re: Maroske fittings: Double lines *PIC*
Thor -- 9/9/2013, 7:21 pm
Re: Maroske fittings: Double lines
Bill Hamm -- 9/10/2013, 2:35 am
Re: Maroske fittings: Double lines
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/10/2013, 11:53 am
Re: Maroske fittings: Double lines
John Messinger -- 9/10/2013, 8:35 am
2012 Blackburn Challenge
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/10/2013, 11:56 am
Re: 2012 Blackburn Challenge
John Messinger -- 9/10/2013, 9:14 pm
Re: 2012 Blackburn Challenge
JohnAbercrombie -- 9/10/2013, 9:35 pm
Re: 2012 Blackburn Challenge
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/11/2013, 8:39 am