[GreenKeys] The Metric System (was Independence Day

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No problems here with metric here. its the strange inch type 
(erratically called imperial) that i find confusing. no idea how to read 
my calipers in inch scale. threads are too coarse, head too big and then 
15/32? c'mon, you can't be serious.

And imagine that you didn't used decimal system in currency. the British 
were one of the last to change to decimal counting in that.

;)

(not to mention factories inventing their own threads and sizes for 
protection reasons...

simon)

On 04-07-17 07:12, WA5CAB--- via GreenKeys wrote:
> It was probably invented by French and/or Germans but as far as 
> perfecting it, unh unh! Just take the ISO Metric threaded fastener 
> system. Worst real-world threaded fastener system ever devised. Thread 
> pitch is too fine. Hex nuts and hex cap screw heads are too small. Screw 
> heads are too small. Screw slots are too narrow. The system is only 
> usable in (a) a Clean Room or (b) a "total consumer" economy where when 
> something stops working instead of fixing it, it goes to a land fill and 
> a new one (that usually doesn't work as well as the old one) has to be 
> bought.
> 
> Inconveniently sized basic units is another built-in bad feature. In 
> many cases, you have to use a million of them or a millionth of one of 
> them to get to the "real world".
> 
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
> 
> In a message dated 07/03/2017 23:32:31 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> hwhall at compuserve.com writes:
>> You know that those weird measures came to us via England, before she 
>> swooned over a measurement system invented &perfected by French 
>> &Germans, right? :-D
>>
>>
>> Wayne
>> WB4OGM
>>
>>
> 
> 
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Simon Claessen
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