Metric pen kits

[Dalboy]

I have noticed that it is getting harder to find drill bits for pen kits. Why do our suppliers not ask the manufactures if they can make the kits so as the tubes are metric which seem to be the easiest bits to get or are the suppliers on a good screw selling the imperial bits.

I am now going to get my coat and leave the building for a while

 

[Grump]

Cos we as a country of consumers are a boil on the bum of the world.
The majority of their sales goes to the yanks who are still using funny money init?

Well that's my guess anyway, I'll get my coat too.

 

[bellringer]

Imperial are easily to get hold of I can get to any size you want in any style of length up to 1 meter


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[silver]

Be carefull what you say Derek, there are a few in here that was brought up on imperial measurements.

It would have been easier to stay on it as well.

Heard my grandson say he kicked the ball and run at it from 10 feet away and it went right up to the 6yard line.....

But I hate to say it, Grump is right, most of the manufacturers make them for the USA market so that the size they use.

Demand dictates..

 

[Neil Lawton]

Imperial are easily to get hold of I can get to any size you want in any style of length up to 1 meter


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I bet you say that to all the girls!

 

[bellringer]

I bet you say that to all the girls!

Ye it never works

 

[Woody]

Cos we as a country of consumers are a boil on the bum of the world.
The majority of their sales goes to the yanks who are still using funny money init?

Well that's my guess anyway, I'll get my coat too.

And I still use funny money after all these years, bring back good ol imperial that's what I say mm is sweets not measurements

 

[chas_41_uk]

I'm from the generation that used both imperial and metric at school
Personally I don't mind metric or imperial. I only have to buy imperial as I can get metric from work in all sorts of odd sizes :wink:

 

[Walter]

What Brian said. The main market is the USA.

You can get metric kits, made in Germany, if you can afford it.

Drechselstube Neckarsteinach Drechselversand - Schreibgeräte

 

[Themackay]

Thought they might have had an English translation Walter

 

[wm460]

The who world is metric and a couple dictators.

 

[Buckeye]

Imperial are easily to get hold of I can get to any size you want in any style of length up to 1 meter


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Imperial is no problem to get hold of, if you are prepared to to pay the silly prices. If you can get them at the same prices we can get metric, then start selling to us

Peter

 

[bellringer]

I bought a 27/64 for £6.50 but it is of a very high standard


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[Buckeye]

I bought a 27/64 for £6.50 but it is of a very high standard


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So, put the link up so we can buy

Peter

 

[bellringer]

So, put the link up so we can buy

Peter

Drill service


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[Woody]

I get all my Imp drills from uk drills UK Drills

 

[Vic Perrin]

I get all my Imp drills from uk drills UK Drills

I use them a fair bit as well Woody, always managed to get what I need at a fair price

Vic

 

[Terry]

You can still have problems with metric. If my memory serves me right the Roman Harvest pen uses a 13.1mm drill !!!!

 

[bellringer]

You can still have problems with metric. If my memory serves me right the Roman Harvest pen uses a 13.1mm drill !!!!

33/64 that the size

 

[Neil]

You can still have problems with metric. If my memory serves me right the Roman Harvest pen uses a 13.1mm drill !!!!

Only because that's a metric equivalent to an imperial measurement.