Thanks Papa... When I started with T&J models, I went ape over spare parts as we don't have the crazy imperil dimensioned stuff here and I found that as soon as i start mucking around with measurements I start to wallow in shit.  So I tend to stick to the written word

I have this phobia for spare parts and when I need something I want it NOW and not in Amazon's 1 day delivery or a 1 hour drive to my local Bunnings H/W store.  So I tend to stockpile,

and where the hell else can a rational metric society use imperial dowel garbage.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD