"Miles" is a very poetic word, "kilometer" not so much...

Have you posted any pics with the device in action. I'd really be interested in seeing what kind of angles you're arriving at.

I haven't noticed any issues with my monopod. It works just fine.

Yea - don't mess around with an important activity like beer drinking!!




Same over here. One of the reasons I think folks would find it easier to switch now. People can now "visualize" many quantities. They can (if they're paying attention, which most aren't) easily grasp how much a liter is. Hell, for guys, every urinal has right on top the GPF (gallons per flush) and LPF (liters per flush) and what else are you looking at while taking a pee? (1 gal = 3.8L) Liquor is sold most commonly in either 750ml or 1 litre bottles. The 750ml is equivalent to the old "fifth" which was a fifth of a gallon. Old timers (like me) may still refer to it as a "fifth" but it is clearly labelled 750ml. If they switched to kilometers, folks would quickly adapt, because they know that Lansing (our state capital) is about 60 miles from my house, so 100km quickly becomes the distance from Livonia to Lansing, and 450km becomes the distance to the Mackinac Bridge, and estimating travel time becomes a lot easier as highway travel usually averages about 100km/hr, so Lansing is an hour away, and the Mackinac Bridge is 4 1/2 hours.

I think that in Australia (an English speaking country that did go the extra mile & adopt the kilometer) they say 'k' (pronounced 'kay'?) in daily speech?

Maybe a Aussie here could confirm or correct?

And of course English speaking military use 'click'.

Yes, for longer journeys (& around here that's most journeys) time makes more sense anyway.

PS. Your comments had me imagining the Proclaimers singing "I would walk 800 k, and I would walk 800 more..." perfectly well, then coming unstuck at the next line..." LOL!

I never got around to bothering Jeff, but a simple test just revealed that the inserts on my Graphite are a very nice fit for M5, whereas they are a very poor fit for the screws provided with a 'flat' belt hook mount.

The screws supplied with the 'flat' belt hook mount are perfect for my wooden Stick, but in the inserts in the Graphite they sort of fit but exhibit signs of not being quite the correct pitch - periodic easy & hard screwing & when withdrawn they show bands of highly polished (almost stripped) threads.

Further experimentation revealed that the holes in the Graphite Stick go almost all the way through to the other side (~37/38mm deep) & so it was possible to fit the flat belt hook mount with the original asymetric screws anyway.

The 'third' screw of the belt hook mount is also M5, but the hole isn't full depth.

This discovery means that if/when I get around to making a version of my 'demountable' system for the Graphite I can make use of M5 machine screws at a length of my choice.