On Sep 11, 11:29 am, Luigi Zanasi snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: >
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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?
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> > XXICVIII
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> That should have been CCXCVIII, and it's now CCXCIX.
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> Why bother changing system?
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> L.
CCC. Do you get to buy me a ticket to TO or Windsor or Sarnia & a drink in your favourite watering hole?
Luigi