On 19/03/2012 18:12, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 19/03/2012 08:48, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:13 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Distance between fixing centres? 91.5cm.

But you highlight the point nicely, much less chance of user error if
the fixing centres were directly divisible by 2.

Keep up, 36 is divisible by 2. B-)

But I've spent the time & trouble to 'go metric'.

More to the point, anyone under 35 is unlikely to know what 36" is.


That is a fault of the education system. Pupils should be prepared for
the real world, not just the one that exists in academia. Imperial
measurements are still widely used in the UK, while the USA is still a
major manufacturer and market and still uses pre-imperial British
measurements.

Of course, if the mirror was made in China, the centres may have been
2.75 chi = 91.6667 cm.

Colin Bignell