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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
Vietnam and possibly Korea.I'm curious Rich, who?
Just pure speculation on my part - so - IMHO applies.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
I don't think having a lousy measurement system has anything to do with the economy
In all seriousness, much of what America designs and produces is metric.
It's like Canada, we're metric however most hobbyists still use the Imperial system, at work it's metric. We'll eventually all changeover, my children have never worked in the Imperial system, so once us older folks are gone you'll almost never see Imperial used.
The interesting thing is that the USA went metric for standards many decades ago........Regards, Rod.
Regards, Rod.
When I was in Germany a few years ago, galvanized pipe was fractional but copper & plastic were metric, which I found unusual, the galvy pipe that is. So some things never change.
I belive Ford used water pipe threads for spark plugs in the old days. All other plugs have always been metric. At least once they went to electric plugs.
Edison bulb/fuse threads are metric and always have been. I believe the USA standard is e26 for 26 mm base.
Modern Chemistry and physics was invented in Germany so all that lab equipment has always been metric since 1850 or so when it started. No idea what Germany used before metric.
Bill D.
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There are probably hundreds of millions of recorded legal documents related to land ownership that are, with some exceptions dating back over a hundred years, using foot and decimals of a foot for measurement. That will be hard to undo.
NOW you tell me...
I can go to OSH and buy metric nuts and bolts but they are almost all packed one to a plastic bag and cost much more then a Imperial one. They have no metric special items like wing nuts, acorn nuts, all thread etc.
Bill
I work in the oilfield, which has it's own interesting units! they are a mixture of imperial and measurements that are just made up. some places in the world work in metric in the oilfield, but they are few and fare between, and I think it will be a long time until there is any traction in changing. What is interesting is when you work in a country that has mixed units.
In my own life, I like miles and gallons feet and inches. I understand the utility of metric, but I just like the imperial measurements. I also have a lot of nice tools that only measure imperial, so that would be inconvenient.