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Originally Posted by saddlesore
I don't want to push 1 for English on the phone or change to metrics to suit other countries
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Seems to me we should go metric because we're already half and half, which is more difficult. The Army uses clicks. Bullets are 5.56mm, not .223 inches. Mortars are 81mm. Liquor comes in 750ml bottles. Don't know about the moon program in 1969 but space calculations are mostly metric now.



Used to come in fifths. You're getting gypped out of 7.08236 mL nowadays. grin
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Originally Posted by Oakster


We turned the foot into the metric system and made base 10


No matter how you slice it, a foot is not any part of the metric system, it is 12 inches...


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Use feet for lumber, common measurments we use. Go decimal for precision stuff. It is hard to get people to change on small stuff. Autos are retooled all the time so things can change easily. My brother worked auto body, and for a couple years Cadillac was metric on one side and American on the other until they used up all the screws.

40 years ago I worked in a gear shop. We made 11 1/2 and 14 1/2 degree gears as much as 20 degree. 11.5 was absolete after WW1, 14.5 was supposed to be phased out during WW2, we still make them and use them.

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Originally Posted by shrapnel
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We turned the foot into the metric system and made base 10


No matter how you slice it, a foot is not any part of the metric system, it is 12 inches...
Damn STRAIGHT!! Thank you.


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Our U.S. system of measurement is another way we differentiate ourselves from the rest of the world. It is another small way to keep our sovereignty. Our rebellion made us different and we need to keep it that way.

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Australia converted to metric back in the mid 60's, yet if you buy wheels for a car it's still the old system, ie, 17x8 or 16x7. Go figure! Even with shooters velocity is still referred to in fps as opposed to m/s.

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The bugger is having two systems.


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It all boils down to decimals. You are going to deal with decimals with either metric or imperial. It would be catastrophic to change our entire country to metric and pretty stupid just to appease the other countries that chose metric. By the way how is plywood and lumber bought and used in metric countries? We can get along fine in machining with conversions. Both systems have precise standards so what's the beef?

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Fugg a bunch of Metric, and the EU too while we're at it.


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The Brits also had another measurement system called "Whitworth". Try and work on one of these cars with a metric or SAE set of tools...

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Originally Posted by shrapnel


The Brits also had another measurement system called "Whitworth". Try and work on one of these cars with a metric or SAE set of tools...

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Never had to work on anything "Whitworth". Looking it up, I saw this on Wiki:

British Morris and MG engines from 1923 to 1955 were built using metric threads but with bolt heads and nuts dimensioned for Whitworth spanners and sockets.[9] In 1919 Morris Motors took over the French Hotchkiss engine works which had moved to Coventry during the First World War. The Hotchkiss machine tools were of metric thread but metric spanners were not readily available in Britain at the time, so fasteners were made with metric thread but Whitworth heads. [10]

Is that true? What a cluster f###.


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I was a kid when metrication came to Australia. Predictions of catastrophe were not borne out.

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Originally Posted by shrapnel
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We turned the foot into the metric system and made base 10


No matter how you slice it, a foot is not any part of the metric system, it is 12 inches...


Actually, the US uses two different versions of the foot: the "international foot" and the "survey foot". They aren't quite the same, but each is, as a matter of US law, defined by reference to the metre.

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We don’t need no metric system in the USA.

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Originally Posted by dan_oz
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Originally Posted by Oakster


We turned the foot into the metric system and made base 10


No matter how you slice it, a foot is not any part of the metric system, it is 12 inches...


Actually, the US uses two different versions of the foot: the "international foot" and the "survey foot". They aren't quite the same, but each is, as a matter of US law, defined by reference to the metre.



Keep it up you commies, you may have yourself convinced that feet, inches, yards, miles and American units of measure are metric, but you are wrong and need to go to Europe if you want the metric system so bad...

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I was a young lad when Canada went to metric and even today I think of some things in metric and some still in imperial.

Weight - Pounds and ounces and grains (I'm 180 lbs)
Height - feet and inches (I'm 5' 6 1/2")
Distance - Kilometers and meters except when sighting in hunting rifles or measuring group sizes then it's in yards and inches
Temperature - always as metric Celcius
Pressure - always in pounds per square inch
Land measurement - always in Acres
Speed - Always in Kilometers per hour
Volume - mostly in liters - except when talking about 45 gal drums and 5 gallon pails
Fuel Economy - miles per gallon (U.S.)

Confused yet - so am I

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Look folks, we have both systems. Like it, or not, we will have to live with it.


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would rather have the money that's needed to convert the US to metric spent on the border wall

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If we were meant to use metric, we would have ten fingers. oh. wait.

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