[Elecraft] Re: OT English/Metric

[David Toepfer]

Not that any of it really matters.

dt
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--- David Toepfer <davetoepfer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Everyone seems to be missing my point, which is, all of these things are
> designed and fabricated in metric specs.  The machine tools are made in
> factories to metric specs, but when the but the dials on them or the labels
> on
> them they are converted to english so we sad american masses who just
> cant/wont
> work in metrics can understand.  I can, for example, make a 1/2" bolt by
> makeing it 12.7mm.  My point is, the machining specs are actually in metric,
> but the end result is marketed and labeled in english.  If the US was not the
> huge economic power house and consumer it was all of the rest of the
> countries/companies of the world would not coddle us on issues like this as
> they do.
> 
> dt
> .
> 
> --- Bob Baxter <rbaxter at cybertrails.com> wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "David Toepfer" <davetoepfer at yahoo.com>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I recall reading somehere a while ago that absolutely all precision
> > > instruments/tools are fabricated in metric and the only thing that is
> > english
> > > is the labels and the specs which are all converted to english.
> > 
> > Have you checked your car?  95% of the nuts and bolts in my 88 Chevrolet,
> > made in Texas, were metric.
> > 
> > Bob Baxter AA7EQ
> > Bisbee, Az.
> > 
> > 
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