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<blockquote data-quote="condor22" data-source="post: 80479" data-attributes="member: 1932"><p>There may be another explanation, (tongue in cheek) but I do not know for sure.</p><p></p><p>It depends upon where stocks are supplied from, in particular if one is actually a "hard" metric size, ie 40mm + or - whatever, and, the other is a different sourced "soft" conversion from original imperial sizes.</p><p></p><p>The only other thing could think of, is that is deliberately done to force you to buy all of what you need from one or the other of the stores, which is wrong</p><p></p><p>They can get away with it this way, if both use the same nominal size and the same + or - tolerance (let's say + or - 0.2 mm) and, Bunnings fittings where always near top tolerance and Masters were always at bottom tolerance then the smaller fitting will never fit the bigger pipe. But, to us, they seem identical specs.</p><p></p><p>If you have a vernier caliper, I'ld be interested to know what the exact size of the bits that don't fit, are !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="condor22, post: 80479, member: 1932"] There may be another explanation, (tongue in cheek) but I do not know for sure. It depends upon where stocks are supplied from, in particular if one is actually a "hard" metric size, ie 40mm + or - whatever, and, the other is a different sourced "soft" conversion from original imperial sizes. The only other thing could think of, is that is deliberately done to force you to buy all of what you need from one or the other of the stores, which is wrong They can get away with it this way, if both use the same nominal size and the same + or - tolerance (let's say + or - 0.2 mm) and, Bunnings fittings where always near top tolerance and Masters were always at bottom tolerance then the smaller fitting will never fit the bigger pipe. But, to us, they seem identical specs. If you have a vernier caliper, I'ld be interested to know what the exact size of the bits that don't fit, are ! [/QUOTE]
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