[Elecraft] KX3 microphone nut size

[Byron Servies]

I agree 100%

Despite my scientific training, which was all metric, I have spent
ages adjusting my wet-ware to it. 5280ft / mi? WTF?

Indeed, just today, I thought, what is this space in millimeters? 60?
It was 65, and I was happy. The same with volumes and grams. It just
works.

But, I, too, am not holding my breath. When I called Festool a couple
of years ago for the metric scales for my saw and router (they
switched to Imperial for the US market), they told me I was the first
one to ask for them. They were free. Nevermind that sheet material is
actually make in metric even for our market and is only inch-like.

73, Byron N6NUL
p.s. Imperial units in the US have been officially defined in metric
for decades.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:14 PM Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>
> In my teens, there was metric, confined to meters [or metres] used by
> amateur radio operators, and all the rest: inches, feet, pounds,
> gallons, quarts, cups, teaspoons, tablespoons, and the other plethora of
> stupid measures I grew up with.  We had 2x4's, which actually were not
> 2" x 4".  We measured nails in pennies ... I'm sure there was a reason
> ... OK, not so sure, but that's how it was.  Then, the US Military sent
> me to the other side of the planet, and over time I began to think
> metric. Meters, grams, kilograms, liters became normal.  I came home ...
> they still are normal, I now have to convert metric to stupid.  It would
> be great if we actually did join the rest of the world before the end of
> my lifetime.  But, I'm not holding my breath.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
>
> On 8/28/2020 6:14 PM, Rich NE1EE wrote:
> > Yes ;-) I started w metric in the 70s, because it made a lot of sense. When I got my license in the 90s, I had to pick up a few Craftsman metric tape measures on one of my trips to Canada...could not find one in the US at all.
> >
> > Worth noting that while you can often swap sockets and wrenches twixt US and metric...there are many sizes that have close equivalents...the same does not hold true at all for nuts and screws that I have found. Might be some that are close, but I have not stumbled across them.
> >
> > On 2020-08-28 17:48:-0700, Phil Kane wrote:
> >> On 8/28/2020 1:49 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:
> >>
> >>> Metric 6 mm is close enough to thread on but wrong threads per inch?
> >> Remember that US electronics is slowly going Metric inch by inch.... :)
> >>
> >> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> >>
>
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