Large Print Charts For Metalworking And other stuff too!
Unless otherwise noted, all charts are printed with letters and numbers as LARGE as will fit on one sheet of paper. Whenever values are rounded off: Decimal inch values are rounded to the nearest millionth of an inch (.000001 in.), and Millimeter values are rounded to the nearest 10,000th (.0001 mm). (If values at these resolutions are not accurate enough for you, I definately want to know what kind of equipment you are working with!)
Note 1: Click Here for a new window with HELP on how to print background colors and images with Internet Explorer 7. Otherwise the alternating White / Light Gray lines of the various tables will not be printed, which makes them harder to read on a plain white background. Other browsers will differ in details but the point is the same: You must enable background colors to be printed for these charts to look right on paper.
Note 2: These chart pages are programmatically generated: On a busy server this can sometimes mean there will be some delay after clicking a button. Please be patient after clicking. Thank you.
Use your browser's <- Back key to return to this menu after printing.
This goes from 1/64th to 1 inch by 64ths, with decimal and millimeter equivalents. Original, just expanded to round off to nearest .000001 inch.
Almost same as above, just with LARGER numbers, and the addition of whole millimeter sizes to the chart. (i.e. includes whole millimeter sizes with decimal inch equivalents, leaving U.S. fractional sizes just showing as "--/--", as there are no equivilents for those sizes). This may be a bit better for some things.
This chart goes from 1 to 160mm, with decimal inch equivilents. Thats all I could fit on 1 page with reasonably large print, and as 160mm is roughly 6.3 inches this should cover most 7x12 mini-lathe workpiece stuff.
* Drill Bit Sizes *
All drill bit sizes from 1/64 to 1 inch, with all Letter Bits A-Z, and all Number Bits from 1 to 60. All Combined and Sorted By Size! Includes Millimeter equivalents. Unfortunately, I could not use large print size numbers as it wouldn't all fit on one page.
Same as above, but LARGER, and requires scissors and clear tape to put together after printing, because it's LARGER than will fit on one page. Did I say this was LARGER? Good. :-)
I had 20/20 vision right up to about 45, since then I've needed reading glasses to clearly make out fine detail thats closer than about the length of my arm away. If you tire of teeny tiny little small print on everything, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
If you are a programmer (or otherwise can work easily with MS Access databases), you may want to "steal" the database the above two "combined & sorted" charts are reading from. Contains tables named: Fractional, Letters, Numbers, and Combined, which are pretty much self describing right there. NOTE: The table "Combined" is not sorted, it was created by simply copying and pasting the contents of all the other tables. IE: The SQL statement in your program could be: "SELECT * From Combined Order By Decimal" and that'd do the sorting with no further effort on your part. Click Here if you want a copy.
(Additional charts, metalworking programs and projects will eventually be added here.)
Cheers! John Zortman