your thoughts on metric

[Doug Miller]

Ok, sorry, Ed, my sense of humor has been malfunctioning all week.

[Robatoy]

I wasn't talking to you, asshole!

[Robatoy]

You don't HAVE a sense of humour!

[Puckdropper]

"HeyBub" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

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My Japanese-made Prius switches when you press the button. The good stuff from Japan (Nintendo and Toyota are my primary reference points) do an excellent job of making the fact they use different measurements transparent.

Puckdropper

[Splinter Group]

In article , [e-mail] (Doug Miller) finally admitted:

You don't HAVE a sense of humour. You're too busy insisting that you're right, even when you're not...which is often.

Did you honestly think that I changed my e-mail so I could play with you?

I think you're due for an ego adjustment.

[J. Clarke]

So are you going to make these decals and give them to me?

And on the planer, the thickness screw is calibrated in inches--a full turn of the screw will never work out to any even number of millimeters unless you replace the screw with one that has a different thread pitch.

So?

[J. Clarke]

Mine don't. At least not unless I take a meter stick to them or set the thickness by trial and error.

[Peter Huebner]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned it yet: there is a brand of spanners called Metrinch. The name says it all. What's more, these spanners attach the centre of the sides of the nut, rather than the edges, meaning you can also use them on badly degraded nuts and bolts, without ripping off the corners. And they do all sizes. My set is made in USA ;-) Father in law told me about them 25 years ago, apparently Peugot used to include them in their toolkits way back then. I've got a socket set and a spanner set, they're brilliant if you have to deal with rusted farm machinery from time to time, as well as both metric and imperial nuts and bolts constantly.

-P.

[B A R R Y]

As does my in-law's first generation Prius and the new Mazda 5 mini-minivan they just bought.

Reality check... We have new US-built Chevy Malibu's at work, that can display in Kilometers or Miles, as well as a dash display that speaks at least four languages. In a Chevy! We have gobs of fun setting the display to other choices.

Both of my personal vehicles, a Jeep TJ and a Toyota pickup have analog meters with dual scales. As do most of my stationary and benchtop tools.

The only big tool I own that dosen't have dual scales is my Performax

22-44 drum sander. Performax thoughtfully included the metric version for the user to install.

To tune, adjust, and repair my tools, as well as all of the cars I've owned in the last 10-15 years, will require both metric and SAE tools.

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[Ralph]

Would that be an Imperial gallon or US gallon?

[Han]

Ralph wrote in news:rppQi.10257$GO5.992@edtnps90:

Let's keep things in perspective.

1 liter lead-free gas (Euro 95) costs about Euro 1,35 in Wageningen, the Netherlands 1 Euro = US $1.418 as of 10/14/07 1 gallon (US, liquid) = 3.78 liter

So lead-free gas (Euro 95) costs:

3.78*1.418*1.35= US $7.24/gallon Near here in New Jersey, a cheap station (Woroco) sells unleaded regular for $2.45/gallon

Happy driving in Europe!

[J. Clarke]

Then they don't _really_ want the European market.

So they've decided that they really want the export market and the other company has decided that it doesn't. None of this negates the original point.

It may be a strawman argument today because the auto

[J. Clarke]

According to their Web site they're made in Taiwan. Might be really good but selling them using infomercials has pretty well shot their credibility. I googled them and the consensus among users seems to be that they actually work as advertised but have a lot of slop which makes wrenching in tight quarters problematical.

[willshak]

If metric ever comes to this country (US), we should dress up as Amerinds and toss the whole lot into the harbor. :-)

[willshak]

Lucky for you. With my CRS, I can't remember a 4 digit phone number between looking it up in the phone book and picking up the telephone handset.

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Better get dressed. Metric has been here for decades and is becoming more prominent all the time.

[Robatoy]

What metric really is, is a transfer from design lab to fabrication floor. If the boys designed it in mm, they expect the quotes and subsequent samples to be all metric. It is not some kind of secret language, as you know, but a preferred method to some. Not all. Some.

It is the close-minded "it's the USA-thereore BEST" crowd that hinders flexibility and advancements in adaptation to world markets. IOW... arrogance. Like Doug Miller.

[Puckdropper]

Han wrote in news:Xns99C96C80768EEikkezelf@199.45.49.11:

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What's the change in price over the last 5 years been in Europe?

Puckdropper

[Han]

Puckdropper wrote in news:4712b8d5$0$47128 $ [e-mail]:

Using the official exchange rate of $ vs euro, gas used to be twice as expensive in Europe as here in Jersey. Now it is a 3-fold difference. In part because the US$ has devalued so much. About 5 years ago, a euro was $0.85 or so. Now it is $1.42. From the perspective of worldwide competition, it is "good" for the US manufacturer and worker in the export fields. Eventually, it'll be rather bad for the ordinary consumer.

[Owen Lawrence]

It's not just the USA crowd. A lot of the people that make much loud noise against metric never use any measurement system of any kind. Those that absolutely need to use measurements every day, all day, are in the minority. When I was in university I heard some pretty heated arguments against metric from my musician friends, a very noisy lot indeed. Me and my physics buddies were just crying inside, since no amount of logic worked any kind of magic, and we just didn't have the volume needed to convince anyone of anything.

I've been bitter every since.

- Owen -