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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to
talk a little bit about millimeters to inches. So I'm not going to do a project in
this video this is really just purely an informational video
addressing a question we get quite a bit here at Beadaholique.com
so as you know a lot of beads sizes are measured in millimeters. When you
look on our website
it doesn't necessarily with the inch that it comes in but the millimeter
It can be a little hard sometimes to conceptualize how big is that in person
so first off I pulled some beads and some common beads sizes and I just want to show
you them
in relation to one my hand so you can see
This here is a three millimeter bead
this is a four millimeter. I'll pick this up and show you what it looks like
on my hand. I do kinda have petite hands. Keep that in mind
This is a 6 millimeter and an 8 millimeter
and ten millimeter and those are you're really common sizes that you're going to see a lot
and then I pulled these other fun beads and they're actually 17 millimeters
I'm going to use them as an demonstration later on
so if you're trying to convert millimeters
to inches or vice versa, a couple different tools are at your disposal
first off your ruler. Usually it has a side with inches
and a side with millimeters. So you can just
reference that. You can see that here if I turn this one around it's a little easier
I've got five millimeters right here
you can see how big that is in relation to an inch
now in an inch there are actually 25 point
four millimeter. So you can remember that and if you ever wanted to do
the actual math on a calculator, say you're taking a
ten-inch bead and you want to convert it to inches, you would take
10 and divide it by 25.4
and that's going to give you how many inches it is. You can also
use caliper which is going to usually have inches on one side. It might be a
little hard to tell on this one
with the lighting in here and then millimeters on the other side
you could put that in there and see how many inches it is. You can see that this
ten millimeter bead
is not even half an inch and then my favorite trick though
is take something that you have around your house. I have
a penny, a nickel and a quarter. A penny
is nineteen millimeters, a nickel is 21.21 millimeters
a quarter is 24.26. You could almost think of a quarter
as one inch which is really handy to know. If you know a quarter is almost an
inch
that helps a lot. So if you've got four millimeter bead
and you know a penny is nineteen millimeters you can kind of look at that Penny
hold it up and get a better idea how large
four millimeters actually is and I said I'd bring these in later
This a 17 millimeters, a penny is nineteen millimeters
so you know it's just a little bit smaller
than a penny. So I highly recommend
keeping tools like this on hand. Have them around the house
and then once you've bought some beads I'd yourself a little guide
take one of each size of bead that you commonly use
just go like that, tape them onto a piece of
board and just write the millimeter sizes right next to them
and then you can just have a reference guide for whatever type of bead your picking
out so you'll know
how big that bead is actually going to be in person and finally
what the easiest way to go ahead and figure out the conversion between
millimeters and inches is just do a quick internet search
if you literally type in X millimeter
in inches it's not going to even give you an equation to go figure it out, it's actually
going to tell you the exact
conversion which is very very handy. So it's like if I type in
12 millimeters in inches I'll be told it's .47 inches
which is a little bit under half inch. So I hope this helped a little bit to get a
better idea of
millimeters versus inches, inches versus millimeters and kinda how to figure that
out and
how big different beads are.
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