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I now make parts for different people who e-mail/fax me drawings so I can quote on them. Some parts are such that I can't tell what they are or what they're the purpose of them are. Sometimes I see dimensions as obviously imperial ones, sometime it is hard to tell, especially when I have NO clue what these parts are. Personally, I don't give a rat's ass what system is used as I work in both metric and imperial. But what seems to be the reason for the US hold-out to stay with an archaic system?
Robatoy wrote: ...
Comfort...it's what people grew up with so it's what's natural.
Ok, What ia half of 5.3 mm?
2.65 mm
What's half of 5.3 inches?
Can you see an mark 2.65 mm?
2.65 "
So, six of one and half a dozen of the other... :-)
The hold-out is that the US is still at least somewhat responsive to the will of the people and the public doesn't _want_ some bizarre French system crammed down its throat.
Irrelevant if you've truly converted to metric. Just like learning a foreign language. When you've truly gotten it, you don't translate in your head, you *think* in the language in which you're speaking. No different here. 5.3mm=5.3mm. period.
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The Freemasons are the ones keeping the Metric system out of the US.
Larry C
One has to look at the basics for each system:
1 meter = one ten-millionth of the distance from the pole to the equator measured along the prime meridian. 1 pound = "A pint's a pound the world around"Now I ask you: which is more meaningful to the average person?
"Leon" snipped-for-privacy@swbell.dotnet wrote in news:ZLydnReSXu7cyzvXnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
0.10433070866141732283464566929134 inch.Floating point error might have occurred.
Puckdropper
Here are the main arguments for both sides of the debate:
PRO IMPERIAL: There is absolutely no question; traditional imperial measurements are far superior for woodworking. Most wreckers use it for very good reasons:
PRO METRIC: There is absolutely no question; metric measurements are far superior for woodworking. Most woodworkers in the world use it for very good reasons:
Intuitiveness:
Communicating measurements:
Ease of learning:
Arithmetic:
Division:
Accuracy:
The REAL Reason:
which I think means 16oz in a lb and 16oz in a pint, but only in the US. An Imperial pint is 20 fl oz the world around.
Tim W
I assume that's tongue in cheek, 'cause if it was intended as a serious statement, it's unadulterated horseshit.
Tom Veatch Wichita, KS USA
The cost for wholesale switchover would be a huge one-time cost, while the cost for staying is paid incrementally. There isn't enough incentive to make it worthwhile in the minds of regulators.
Kind of like keyboard layout...Dvorak is 10-15% faster for a trained typist, but the cost of switching is too high to make it worth doing.
I'm in Canada, so we get everything...metric, US, and Imperial. Personally I like metric for most things, but living so close to the US it's just easier to use US units for construction/woodworking.
Chris
It was a joke
An unadulterated joke.
I meant to say Stone Cutters - a Simpsons reference but I typed quicker than I thought. The Freemasons are the guys who have all that treasure hidden somewhere in the US.
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