Once got a spec sheet for an appliance made in Europe, but clearly trying to break into the US market so they had gotten rid of all the metric and used inches for cutout dimensions… But they did NOT get the memo about our love of powers of 2 denominators so it was giving everything in fifths and tenths of inches… None of the contractors could figure out how the hell big to make the opening because nobody knew how big 3/5ths or 7/10ths of an inch was…
I had to beg the company rep for the metric measurements, as at least we could get a tape measure with mm markings, but they just wouldn’t do it and sent a corrected spec sheet and the dimensions were now in 32nds and 64ths… At least it was on the right track but I still don’t have a tape measure with that kind of precision… Eventually just had to write our own dimensions that were “close enough”.
(keep in mind, we are talking about a hole in cabinets for refrigerators and dishwashers and stuff… so its like 72 and 37/64 inches tall or some nonsense, so you definitely were not expected to be using a precision measuring tool like calipers for this…)
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Like those spanner/socket sizes where you have to figure out the sequence 3/8 -> 7/16 -> 1/2 rather than just like 10mm -> 11mm -> 12mm
Once got a spec sheet for an appliance made in Europe, but clearly trying to break into the US market so they had gotten rid of all the metric and used inches for cutout dimensions… But they did NOT get the memo about our love of powers of 2 denominators so it was giving everything in fifths and tenths of inches… None of the contractors could figure out how the hell big to make the opening because nobody knew how big 3/5ths or 7/10ths of an inch was…
I had to beg the company rep for the metric measurements, as at least we could get a tape measure with mm markings, but they just wouldn’t do it and sent a corrected spec sheet and the dimensions were now in 32nds and 64ths… At least it was on the right track but I still don’t have a tape measure with that kind of precision… Eventually just had to write our own dimensions that were “close enough”.
(keep in mind, we are talking about a hole in cabinets for refrigerators and dishwashers and stuff… so its like 72 and 37/64 inches tall or some nonsense, so you definitely were not expected to be using a precision measuring tool like calipers for this…)
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