Very Red Face, I should have known this
While watching This Old Tony’s latest post he dropped a quiet bombshell for me. Something that I really should have known …. the tapping size for a metric thread is the diameter of the thread less the pitch dimension. Very simple. Very obvious (now). Somebody somewhere in the distant past must have decided to do something about the chaos of Imperial standards.
Check it out.
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