From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 06:12:33 PDT
..it's seems American History is only relevant in text books and not in
practice.
"Keep America beautiful...say no to metrics."
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Martin [mailto:mung@in-touch.net]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:06 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] The metric system in America
Would anyone know the status of metrics in America? Is there a deadline
to convert fully sometime in the future? Does anyone think that metrics
have helped or hindered the professional mechanic down to the home
mechanic? Looks like if some manufacturer in America made a vehicle with
all American sized bolts and nuts and a frontend that tilted
forward...it would outsell the rest of them. It appears that the reason
we like to work on military vehicles and old tractors and old cars is
the fact that they haven't been sabotaged by the metric system. Most
every organization in the country has been on strike at least once...why
not the lowly mechanic? The strength of America in the past has been her
manufacturing power...that also includes the maintenance of all this...
if we have all this manufacturing power but are hindered in doing
maintenance on it... looks like the system we have now is helping us go
down the drain faster because apparently politicians instead of
engineers have control of what makes America roll...in other
words...what makes us efficient. This situation can be corrected...but
it has to be started by someone in Washington D. C. It would be my
fondest desire to see this happen before I pass on. I wish some of you
fellows in the right positions would get the ball rolling on this...it
surely needs to be done, probably as an emergency bill. want to get in
on helping America and doing your part? Heres an opportunity. If you
don't, pass this along, maybe someone else will pick up the ball.
Respectfully, Fred Martin, Greenfield, Ohio
Everette wrote:
> Fred
>
> you wrote""
>
> " But...the manufacturers would probably design every other thing we
> work on to require a special wrench then. The manufacturers want to
> totally eliminate the home mechanic by making all modern vehicles as
> hard to work on as possible..............""
>
> That is for sure
>
> The special ended screwdriver you have to have to even change a
> headlight lamp, as an example.
>
> I have a 76 GMC that I have (for real) driven in excess of 800,000
> miles, changed just about every thing on it at least one time - and
> these changes have introduced metric stuff to it.
>
> By profession I sell and repair high pressure washers and 99+% of the
> pumps are made outside of north America , so they have almost 100%
> metric fasteners - kicker is "almost" even these have some "Standard"
> . So I have to carry almost twice and many wrenches as really needed.
>
>
>
> Everette
>
>
>
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