Originally Posted by
Bill Jobe
I think it must be something that a person developes at an early age. The push to convert to metric in the US has failed miserably. As a result most products leave the factory with a bizarre combination of metric and SAE.
I grew up in the 50s and by the time metric was being pushed it was too late for me. My mind thinks in inches, decimals, miles, mph and so forth. In the shop I used metric dial calipers given to me by a forman who had been a machine operater, his personal piece along with a nice leather holster, and used a calculator to convert it. In my mind I supposed that would familiarize me with metric. Didn't work.
Whole countries have converted with people who grew up in the 50's, me included. Looking from the outside in it is inevitable that the US will go metric, if not as a hard political decision then an erosion of imperial brought on by trading with the rest of the world. Automotive products are an example of one industry that has already changed or is in the process of it.
Chris
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