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Re:Why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system by rubberpoliceman on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:44PM (#34409242)
> You also have the joy of "the hole for a 17/64ths Whitworth tap is 47.2 thou" or whatever other imperial nonsense machinists have to deal with.

It’s worse. The drill size for a 7/16” coarse tap is ‘U’.

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