Rob Robson wrote: > There are metric nuts and bolts in the Digi-Key catalogue, but I'm not sure > who pays the tax on them. Sure enough, they do have some. I guess I wasn't using the right search terms - or maybe I wasn't doing a Digi-Key order for anything else at that point and it seemed silly to pay $5 handling + shipping for a dozen nuts and bolts. peiserma@ridgid.com wrote: > > > they may even have a store near you. Weird - they do! It's all of 9 blocks away, though; don't know if I can walk *that* far. ;) Thanks! So maybe this is more about my poor Googling skills than anything else. But I guess my point was that whatever electronics parts store I was already ordering from that time *did* have the equivalent Imperial parts. As well as lots of other kinds of standoffs, spacers, etc. that I can get with 4-40 thread. and Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > I've also been involved recently with some mechanic work in the USA, and > the people who do it seem to mostly basically refuse to work in metric > units. > > I still stand by my opinion that attitudes like this are just prolonging > the confusion with the dual system while not avoiding the inevitable move > to metric. I agree, if it's just "No, we don't do that here," that's silly. -- Timothy J. Weber http://timothyweber.org -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist