I worked in a machine shop. All our prints were inches and (metric). All the CNC machinery was Japanese.
Funny!
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ST1100Y
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Well, so you can buy 3 meters of 2x4...
While we have to get used to like 25 meter rolls of 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4 & 7/8 refrigeration copper...
And all of my socket wrenches and torque wrenches are imperial (1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" drive) regardless of whether the attached socket is imperial or metric.
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Bill Rankin
Our school districts bought Chinese copies of Bridgeport mills for the high school metal shop.
Nice tools. They work well, though I'm confident they won't hold up anywhere near as long as the well used Bridgeports they replaced.
That said, all the scales and controls support imperial fractional / inches.
But the fasteners that hold the mill together are a Frankenstein's monster mix of metric and imperial!
We had a British machine from the early seventies. All the nuts and bolts and tapped holes were British Whitworth.
I enjoy working on American-made cars because one never knows, is it metric or standard? Gotta keep em guessing and buying more tools. 
ST1100Y
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Yeah, the motorcycle workshop also moans about them HDs, as they too are always a surprise mixture of imperial and metric nuts'n'bolts... on the same vehicle...I enjoy working on American-made cars because one never knows, is it metric or standard? Gotta keep em guessing and buying more tools.
