John B. I disagree totally with you on this. Why should we waste money on METRIC when we have the largest economy in the world??? Do you think the other countries are going to love us because we converted to "their" system??????
I wish they would out law anything metric in this country. I am sick of keeping four or five different types of bolts.
You think metric is great then how come they have THREE different thread pitch standards on metric screws/bolts.
I say keep the SAE English standard. Make anyone that wants to sell anything here make it to SAE English standards.
I worked for awhile as a machinist. The company got a new CEO he declared that every drawing would only be drawn with metric dimensions. There was only one SMALL problem. Every single machine in the whole factory only had English controls/screws. So we all got real good at setting down and calculating the metric sizes back to English.
It is easy divide MM by 25.4 and you have it in inches.
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