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IKs that tap a Whitworth, maybe, like the barrel thread on a Mauser rifle? I just bought a 55 degree threading guide and a 55 degree thread pitch gauge for grinding threading tools and checking the barrel threads I turn on the lathe. Fortunately, Whitworth threads are measured in "threads per inch". Weatherby Vanguard receivers have metric threads, so I turn an inch measured thread that's close, then chase the thread with an adjustable metric die and a 3 cornered file for a final fit.

Depends on your lifestyle.
Metric was in Australia for just over 30 years when my last artcle was published there and I never once submitted an article including metric measurements. It simply was not the written English I learned and was disaligned with the readership.

My profession was Printing and Packaging which adopted the metric system and embraced it, as it was so easy, every measurement being in 10's with errors and translations almost eliminated. 30 years there and back to English (albeit Americanised) for the next 20 years proved the superiority of metric system where measurement is the primary usage.

Read that as NOT liquids, gases or volumes.

A foot/pound meant something easy to learn and interpret.
A kilo/cm or Mtr was a useless comparison and its gets far worse when liguids and energy enteres the discussion.

Hmmmm- - - - -sounds a lot like the exotic dancer with the 96 inch bust- - - - - -she doesn't actually dance- - - -she just crawls out on stage and tries to stand up!

I can work very well in either/or.
I have problems switching back and forth (conversions), but manage to fumble my way through - to an acceptable level, usually.

Try to be fluent in both systems, not in conversion tricks.

Bruce

I'll stick to pounds, gallons, tons, ounces and tools in 1/8" increments... I freakin' HATE metric crap... And yes I know I have to deal with it in many modern vehicles, AG equipment etc., but all it does is raise my blood pressure...


Did I say that I freakin' HATE metric? Oh, yeah, I did..

About the only ones I seem to consistently use are: 1kg is 2.2lb, 25.4mm is an inch, 3.28ft to a meter.

I'm 75 and we lead a pretty simple life. I have no need to memorize a bunch of metric facts. I just need easy ways to convert when some idiot tries to push it down my throat. I don't care if metric is much simpler as I don't have to work with it.

This is America ....if God wanted us to be on the metric system there would have been 10 disciples ............

instead of 12.

^^^snork^^^
Plus, I think youse guys misspelled it: Metrick.

$1,000 dollars = 1 kilobuck

"Back in 1875 The US signed the Metre Convention, which basically committed the country to use the metric system. In return, French scientists sent two platinum-iridium cylinders that weigh 1kg to the US in 1889 (known by their designations K4 and K20 from a set of 40 identical objects that were produced and sent around the world). So even though everything you see and buy in the US is usually reported in pounds, all weights are traceable back to the K20 kilogram (by applying a conversion factor to get to pounds)."

Riddle me this:

The Celsius temp scale is 0 for freezing and 100 for boiling water. Fahrenheit is 32 and 212 respectively.

So one day I was lounging around in Nam and about 11 AM it was 47 on the Celsius thermometer. That's 116.6 F. According to Celsius that's only 3 degrees short of halfway to boiling. It's only 95.4 short of boiling on the F scale. Thing that really confused me was that I wasn't sweating.

How's that work in your head?

Perfectly stated... And, IIRC, it's one of the reasons we kicked the British outta New England a coupla centuries ago..

'twere it me, I'd find the midpoint on the Fahrenheit scale like you did on the Celsius, then compare the two, keeping in mind the doubling factor of Celsius i mentioned earlier...

On the sweating thing, I've no idea.

Don't over think this, I was being pesky.

There have been exceptions, but most of the people I have known that suck at the Metric System also suck at the Imperial System.

Could have been a faulty thermometer. I have been in 39 C overseas and it was overwhelming , and not talking a humid climate either.

Metric system is easy to use .

I am good with both. Tens years living/working abroad required it.