BenchReference / Drill sizes / 11.6 mm 11.6 mm Drill Decimal inches 0.4567″
Millimeters 11.6 mm
System Metric
Nearest equivalents in other systems System Nearest drill Size Difference Fractional inch 29/64″ 0.4531″ / 11.509 mm −0.091 mm (−0.0036″)
Number (wire gauge) #1 0.2280″ / 5.791 mm −5.809 mm (−0.2287″)
Letter Z 0.4130″ / 10.49 mm −1.11 mm (−0.0437″)
−0.928 mm +0.928 mm 11.6 mm 11.4 mm −0.2 mm 11.5 mm −0.1 mm 11.7 mm +0.1 mm 11.8 mm +0.2 mm 29/64″ −0.091 mm ← #1 −5.809 mm ← Z −1.11 mm tick position = true diameter · metric neighbors above, equivalents below · window ±0.93 mm
Positive difference = cuts a slightly larger hole than 11.6 mm. Sizes
beyond the window are listed with arrows — they are not close substitutes.
Neighboring metric sizes Drill Decimal in mm vs 11.6 mm 11.4 mm 0.4488 11.4 −0.2 mm 11.5 mm 0.4528 11.5 −0.1 mm 11.6 mm 0.4567 11.6 — 11.7 mm 0.4606 11.7 +0.1 mm 11.8 mm 0.4646 11.8 +0.2 mm
← 11.5 mm (smaller) 11.7 mm (larger) →
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Data provenance. ASME B94.11M, Twist Drills (standard drill size series) (ASME). Millimeter and inch values are converted with the exact definition 1 in = 25.4 mm; the canonical dimension for this metric size is 11.6 mm. See all data sources .