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The US uses the metric system more than a lot of folks realize. Sparkplug threads have been metric since before 1900.

True but the wrench that is needed to turn them is 5/8th's or 13/16's. Metric sucks, an incomplete system that is poorly balanced.

You do a lot of mechanic work, eh?

Who came up with this stupid metric tire-spec system? Because 265/75R16 is awful compared to 32x10.50/16. Next we need pants sizes that also require a calculator to understand.

They tried to force the metric system on us in the early 1970's, it went nowhere.

It won't be long until there is an army of Metric lovers that will rain excrement on this thread. I can do Metric but it's not my favorite way to measure or machine. Metric threads are a PITA to cut on any lathe with an imperial leadscrew. I can and do cut them but have no love for it. Taps and dies are difficult to impossible to find unless you're in a metropolitan area. Everything boils down to decimals anyway. Metric may appear to be simpler but look at a thread chart and you'll go nuts trying to find the right tap drill. I have in my possession a metric tap that in no way taps the M4x.7 that it says it will. Our stuff that comes from China and other metric nations might say an imperial number but it's a metric equivalent. Some closer than others. An m10x1.5 nut from one country may or may not fit the m10x1.5 bolt you may have from another country. The Metric system makes sense in some things like Engineering, Medicine and Astronomy where you are working with very large or very small numbers.

If they'd gone to it before we were born, we'd like it. A friend that ran a motor grader talked about an engineer's foot. 12 inches divided by ten for easy figuring.

It's been a dual system my entire life so 🤷🏻‍♂️ it is what it is. Own both metric and sae tools. Metric won't go away.

The good ole days were when all you needed were SAE and I didn't have to deal so often with two sets of sockets and wrenches. Tool boxes definitely grew in size when that happend. Only thing I hold against Nixon. Add to that all the metric sockets fit on ratchets and extensions that are SAE.

SAE designed and engineered equipment defeated the metrics in 2 world wars and the losers are still trying to make us go backwards…

Two kinds of nations in the world: those on the metric system, and those who have walked on the moon.




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What do Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States have in common? They are the only countries in the whole world that are not on the metric system. There is a reason practically all the world is metric. It's not because the metric system is less useful than SAE.

I'd much rather say I have a 36 waist than to say I had a 914.4 waist........

God help me, I still have Whitworth tools.

My misspent youth fooling with motorcycles.

I don’t recall using yards, tea spoons, baker’s dozen and hogsheads in chemistry, physics and quant

If the rest of the world came down with AIDS I'm pretty sure there would be those that say we must have it too. Germany and England were British Standard Whitworth for many years. Now they're metric except Britton is slowly going back to imperial.

the French started the metric system. That's all we need to know

I was an apprentice tool and die maker in the early 70's when the metrification push was on. I think a big part of the reason it failed was because industry, instead of teaching the metric system, focused on teaching conversion from imperial to metric and vice versa. People just didn't understand that, if you're using metric tools, instruments and machines all that conversion wasn't necessary. I never had any problem with it. Subsequently, when I worked for the American branch of a Canadian company we had to go over our prints and write in the imperial equivalents to work to, no big deal. Metric is incredibly more logical.

The Imperial System is ten times easier to understand than the metric system.