{"id":10473,"date":"2019-03-07T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:31:02","slug":"my-real-life-encounter-with-the-metric-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/my-real-life-encounter-with-the-metric-inch\/","title":{"rendered":"my real life encounter with the metric inch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hm. That’s … not a half-bad album title, is it? File that<\/em> one away… \uff08\u2312\u25bd\u2312\uff09<\/p>\n

Anyway, as you might tell from the last post, I’ve been doing a fair bit of studio maintenance lately, getting rid of redundant\/obsolete cabling, finally making second-tier stuff that wasn’t working actually work, all that. And a very small part of that work has been fixing an issue I noticed when I started using the new sound-engineer position that I made viable a few months ago.<\/p>\n

It’s not complicated: the studio computer monitors are on a post, mounted to the edge of the desk. It’s been fine. But when the monitors are rotated to face the new engineering location, it tilts a bit, and I’ve been thinking maybe it was tilting more lately. The edge of the desk is sturdy and there’s no damage that I can tell, but there is a gap between the overhang the clamp attaches to and the side of the desk, and what’s happening is that it’s flexing, and over time, it will<\/eM> break.<\/p>\n

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So the obvious solution is to get some wood to fill the gap. Then the edge won’t be able to flex, and the monitor post will stay straight up.<\/p>\n

The funny thing was when I measured the gap, it was just under an inch. That’s a very annoying number for a variety of reasons, but I was like, well, whatever, I’ll sand something down.<\/p>\n

And I went down to the shop to find some wood and was poking around seeking something close, when I noticed some old fake-wood recycled-plastic decking samples that I’d got and not used for anything, and when I measured them, they were 25mm exactly – just under an inch.<\/p>\n

And measuring it in metric and getting 25mm exactly is what made me realise that it was one metric inch<\/a>. (TL;DR – it was an old USSR standard for converting stolen technology, particularly computer technology, to make the math easier in conversion to metric. Instead of 25.4mm\/inch, it was 25.0mm\/inch exactly.)<\/p>\n

So I sanded down a bit of the faux woodgrain (not included in the 25mm measurement) and checked the desk again and the gap was, in fact, 25mm, and with a little tapping with a hammer, the fill block I cut fits perfectly.<\/p>\n

The post no longer leans, and I now have had a real-life encounter with that historic oddity, the metric inch.<\/p>\n

That’s a checkbox item I didn’t even know was on the list and didn’t really need to be checked, but goddamn if I haven’t checked it. Go me. I guess. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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