On Dec 18, 8:56*am, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:18:29 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"

I dispair of the idiots who design the fixing systems for things
like this, they have clearly never hung anything on a wall before.
I'd agree with that

Hung a mirror last week. *From Arrggh-os, my favourites. *No fixings
included - saved me the trouble of binning them.

Two upside down 'keyhole' slots on the back with a rebate underneath, the
idea being that it dropped over two screw heads.

Convenietly spaced at 96.5cm apart, so at 48.25cm centres. Marked out,
drilled, plugged put in screws. *I then find out that the larger hole in the
keyhole won't allow the head of a No:8 or 4mm screw through - had to ease it
out with a drill bit.

Should have checked!


Why not space the holes at 96.0cm

How does that help?

In either case you need to measure to, say, at least 0.1cm precision.
If you can't measure 48.25 then nor can you measure 48.00. Just
measure to the nearest mm in either case and quit moaning.

MBQ