[sdiy] Metric OT rant

[John L Marshall]

Harry,

Don't get a Sunbeam roadster, Wentworth hardware.


Take care,
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "harry" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
To: "Andre Majorel" <amajorel at teaser.fr>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Metric OT rant


> Andre Majorel wrote:
>
> > A bit of googling will surely give you the details of the DIN
> > specs. That's what I used a few days ago to find out what those
> > obscure US screw sizes mean. I'm pleased to know that a #10 screw
> > is 4.83 mm in diameter. :-)
>
> HA ! now if I could only learn the difference between an M5 and an M8
> screw.   :^P
>
> Seriously... we get to think in a system.  For me, the 4-40, 6-32, 8-32,
and
> 10-32
> are easy to regognize on sight and  I could tell you right off what size
tap
> drill, etc.
> For metric, even after I multiply by .03937... I still don't know shit.
>
> I think the Metric system for science makes all the sense in the world...
> multiply
> by 10 etc...
>
> but for tooling, metric is an evil European plot (perhaps a French plot ?
> ;^)
> to hobble America by forcing us to buy two sets of all our tooling...
>
> (we still want to do DIY on old OLD stuff as well)...
>
> And to harass us by having us tell our childern "Son... bring me the 9/16
> open end
> wrench... or is that an M14 ???... well bring both.... and make sure they
> get back
> into the right toolboxes...."
>
> (note I have no idea if a 9/16" is even close to an M14... lessee... a
1/2"
> is half of
> 25.4 so its bigger than an M12 so....   ;^)
>
> We in America followed our Colonial masters... the Brits.... who then
> promply turned
> (red) coat and adopted the Metric (tooling) system. Thanks, guys...!   To
> remind us all of this betrayal, we still call our system... "The English
> system".  Hah... and to think we were gonna help you all take over the
world
> again. Fat chance of that now...we're too busy trying to fit a M6 screw in
a
> 1/4" hole...   ;^P
>
> This must be some kind of collective punishment on America, and for what
> (just for being such @ssholes to the rest of the Metric world ???)
>
> </rant>
>
> H^) harry
>
> >
> >
>