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If you need metric drills, they are cheap in France.
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Lots of storage for bits and pieces
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Don't get me started, the UK is not much better ... despite what Rob said, you do have to be a bit bilingual to cope here. We've never really converted... I've never had to deal with LSD (Librae, Solidae, Denari - or pounds, shillings and pence) currency, although having said that, shilling coins were still in circulation for a long, long time as the "new" 5p coin, and there was a 1/2p coin (and prices to match) up until the early 80s IIRC. Things have got a bit easier (though much, much more expensive) as the GBP pretty much = USD and EUR now First year at Junior school (age 7, 1979) was times tables up to 12x12, but the following year times tables went metric so kids a year behind got to drop 11 and 12x. Temperatures are pretty much exclusively in metric (Celcius for weather forecasts, Kelvin(s) (sic) for serious physics), Fahrenheit is a black art to me, I know 61F = 16C and 32F = 0C, but anything else is lost on me. Centigrade is the norm for recipes, but using a North Sea Gas oven I tend to think more in Gas Marks (Gas Mark 4 or 5 for cakes, 3 for a slow roast, 7 for roast potatoes...). Speeds are in MPH (cars/bikes, road speed limits), M/S for physics, fps for shooting, knots for sea and air ... distances are in miles (driving), inches (TVs), mm for fasteners on cars built in the last 30 years, wood screws are in # and inches, lengths of timber in metres, boards in 8ft x 4ft sheets, kitchen worktops in mm lengths, cloth is in rolls feet/inches wide, but sold by the Metre length ... Aluminium forms are sized in imperial fractions. Fuel (DERV and Petrol) is sold priced in litres, but efficiency measured in Miles per Gallon. Wine is sold in 75cl bottles, sold in pubs by the 125ml glassful, beer in pints. Pints/Gallons are Imperial ones, not US ones BTW. No-one measures things in fl.oz or quarts here. Or cups, which is something of a blessing, apart from when it comes to translating @ Rob - nice drill set, but I would suggest getting spares in quantity for the smaller sizes, definitely everything up to 3mm anyway (plus possibly 3.2mm, which I'm surprised yor set doesn't have), e.g. www.ukdrills.co...-drill-bit
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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate
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NICE!!!! Big tool time. I've picked a few little tools, I must show and tell this weekend
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