How many mils in a mm? A mil is a fraction of a mm.

[kenimes]

Several potential customers have asked if our cutters will cut 2-7mil vinyl because the specs say 1mm max thickness.
To clarify: 1mm = 39.3700787 mils

 

[fourthsyde]

wow.. it finally makes sense now...

[Jerry Bonham]

In Australia we are metric.
However we used to use gallons, pints and similar measurements a very long time ago.
About half a century or more.
What amazes me was that your gallon was different to ours.
In fact i think that one of your gallons has over half a litre less than one of our old gallons.
So one US Gallon = 3.9 litres
One Imperial gallon  = 4.5 litres.
They even rob you on a bushell of wheat.
A US bussell is smaller than an Imperial bushell.

Now we are metric.
So here in Australia there are only
One thousand mils to an inch.
One mil is a one thousandth of an inch.
One inch is 25.4 millimeters.
So in Australian one mil = 0.0254 mm.

Or as Ken says
or 1 mm = 39.37 mils

Wow, no wonder the Mars lander crashed when it got all its measurements mixed up between Imperial, US, CGS metric, CGSA metric, MKS metric., MKSA metric and SI metric measurements.

Hope i have throughly confused you all, i am confused now as well
Jerry from SignBlazer.

[darkdan]

I have successfully cut 17 mil material with it so far.

[FireMalt]

I have successfully cut 17 mil material with it so far.

  WOW... that's good to know when purchasing material that you normally don't use. Thanks!

[slopchops]

I can't tell you how many nights sleep I have lost worrying about that.

[cdoc70]

lmao, Jerry.

[Alien]

My poor brain could not keep it all straight. So I went hunting and found this for my desktop. http://www.download3k.com/Install-TM-Des... 

[mars]

I know it's an old post, but the reply today popped it up on my radar.

The way I remember it is a mil is 1/1000 of an inch and a mm is 1/1000 of a meter - I never remember how many inches in a meter, but I always remember that a meter is a little more than a yard.  So I can visualize that a mm is something more than 36 mils - and if I remember there are 39.3700787 inches in a meter I can see that there are 39.3700787 mils in a mm. 

mils is tiny ain't they?

-Mike