Funny!

dwalby said:
but we gave up years ago, so the "inching" part is actually past tense. Now we're permanently anchored to the Imperial system. After 2 liter soda bottles, and engine displacement in liters, we never got much further than dual-system labeling.
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I worked in a machine shop. All our prints were inches and (metric). All the CNC machinery was Japanese.
 
dwalby said:
but we gave up years ago, so the "inching" part is actually past tense. Now we're permanently anchored to the Imperial system. After 2 liter soda bottles, and engine displacement in liters, we never got much further than dual-system labeling.
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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...
 
ST1100Y said:
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...
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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.
 
Stu Padazole said:
I worked in a machine shop. All our prints were inches and (metric). All the CNC machinery was Japanese.
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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!
 
STRider said:
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!
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We had a British machine from the early seventies. All the nuts and bolts and tapped holes were British Whitworth.
 
cjames431 said:
I enjoy working on American-made cars because one never knows, is it metric or standard? Gotta keep em guessing and buying more tools. :rolleyes-2x::roflmao-2x:
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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... :cautious:
 
Way back when, working in Luxembourg, I had to do a test in a windtunnel which called for infrared radiation of so many Langley per minute. WTH ?? So I asked around & found an american colleague with an big book of tables and informed me that one Langley per minutes corresponds to such and such BTU per square foot.. Ok, so what the hell is a BTU, right ? So then I found a brittish colleague who said a BTU is so many Joules... Did some math and.... the test called for 1000 W/m2, basically full sunlight... What a journey...
 
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