So I have a VERY unique job that allows me to visit hundreds of manufactures worldwide. I can assure you the imperial system is alive and well in Europe and Asia not only in their equipment but the goods they mfg. What metric countries have in common? Their women don’t know how long 20 cm is as well.
Anyways funny story… wife was determined to measure windows for blinds. She took the fat max (imperial) around the house with paper and pencil. She explained that kitchen window was 46.519” wide. I said carefully “I do not doubt you, but please show me how you arrived at that number.” She could not. Later in day used my 1/4” wood chisel to remove calcium from pipe.
My specs call for widths of 12.91", 18.1" or 6.80"...
We measure with a Stanley tape.
Pisses me off, engineering is so lazy we don't even have a tolerance range
for that customer.
So, I'm all squinty eyed trying to see the edge of a piece of ground steel against a tape,
"Just a smidge under an eighth".
Trying to get it perfect when you can't even measure perfect.
