Lofting in the living room

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Lofting in the living room

Postby slowpoke » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:02 am

Does anyone know of a web site that converts decimal inches to fractions, or to millimeters? I once had a measuring tape that had decimal inches on it, I finally threw the damn thing away! What does 0.63 inches convert to anyway?

These are NOT the easiest plans to follow. Each page/panel uses different reference points/measurements, none of which line up with the frame locations! How did you guys that already built your boats do it? Guesstimate?

One last question: What fraction equals 0.26 of an inch? :roll:
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Re: Lofting in the living room

Postby jerome » Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:32 am

What is up Rocky,

İ use this site for all my conversions. Works fine and İ use it all the time for all type of conversion. Have fun lofting !

http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/
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Re: Lofting in the living room

Postby ryderp » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:38 pm

The smallest reasonable increment on my tape measure is 1/32th of an inch. I just multiplied the fractional inches by 32 and rounded to the nearest 32nd. I'm sure that using a 16th would have been good enough since I can't cut to a 32nd of an inch anyway. (.26 is pretty darned close to a quarter in my book).
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