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John B. writes:

You quote prices in Swedish? money. I would
assume that you could go to any tool store
and buy a "thread gauge" and it would
be metric.

The old English units are still everywhere and
they are not likely to disappear anytime soon.
Boxing gloves, hammers, drums, ratchets, bits,
tripod screws (for cameras and projectors),
tires (well, they put 28" as well as 40-622 on
the boxes...), even downpipes (!) are in oz
and inches.

So you need tools etc. for both!

By the way, there is a saying in Swedish: "Det
var som sjutton!" It corresponds to "I'd be
damned!", I think. Literally it is "it was like
17!" tho. I think the origin of that saying is
the 1/16 parts of an inch. If it is 17,
something is fishy!

(Why the "thread gauge" quotes? Is it called
something else? It is "gängtolk" in Swedish,
literally "thread interpreter". "Thread gauge"
is Google Translate.)

Just because someone doesn't have something
it doesn't mean it is not professional.
It more likely indicates that the shop has no
demand for something.

The store is professional in terms of selling
stuff to the masses to make a profit. It is
professional in its marketing claiming to be
professional as I've heard many customers (who
aren't professionals in any craft) credit the
store for being professional. But it isn't
professional in the sense that those who are
dedicated to the craft at even
a beginner/intermediate level, like I, can get
basic things any shop should have, because they
don't have it.

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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 01:14:23 +0200, Emanuel Berg
wrote:

John B. writes:

You quote prices in Swedish? money. I would
assume that you could go to any tool store
and buy a "thread gauge" and it would
be metric.

The old English units are still everywhere and
they are not likely to disappear anytime soon.
Boxing gloves, hammers, drums, ratchets, bits,
tripod screws (for cameras and projectors),
tires (well, they put 28" as well as 40-622 on
the boxes...), even downpipes (!) are in oz
and inches.

So you need tools etc. for both!

By the way, there is a saying in Swedish: "Det
var som sjutton!" It corresponds to "I'd be
damned!", I think. Literally it is "it was like
17!" tho. I think the origin of that saying is
the 1/16 parts of an inch. If it is 17,
something is fishy!

(Why the "thread gauge" quotes? Is it called
something else? It is "gängtolk" in Swedish,
literally "thread interpreter". "Thread gauge"
is Google Translate.)

Nope, "thread gauge" is what I was taught was the correct name during
my apprenticeship, long before Google was invented :-)


Just because someone doesn't have something
it doesn't mean it is not professional.
It more likely indicates that the shop has no
demand for something.

The store is professional in terms of selling
stuff to the masses to make a profit. It is
professional in its marketing claiming to be
professional as I've heard many customers (who
aren't professionals in any craft) credit the
store for being professional. But it isn't
professional in the sense that those who are
dedicated to the craft at even
a beginner/intermediate level, like I, can get
basic things any shop should have, because they
don't have it.

Well, hopefully most shops are professional in making a profit :-)

But more seriously,I think that most successful shops, basically,
stock what sells. Some time ago I was looking for some spokes and
visited a large number of bike shops in Bangkok. One offered to order
some for me, from a foreign source, and one had some spokes that would
fit 26 inch wheels and that was all. There are two "Shimano Dealers"
in Bangkok and neither had spokes, not that Shimano makes spokes but
these are the two largest retail and wholesale dealers in Bangkok.
One, that is what might be called a "Wholesale" shop told me that "no
one builds wheels any more they just buy new wheels" The other dealer,
that has two large retail shops tell me that "one of our guys builds
some wheels at home" and when asked the guy said that there is no
demand for "big wheels" meaning 300c size, so no spokes that size.

So essentially, even the most professional shops, here, don't stock
spokes, quite simply because no one buys spokes.

I eventually got the spokes by ordering them from a shop in Singapore
who, in turn, ordered them from a manufacturer in Taiwan and I picked
them up about two months later.

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cheers,

John B.