Re: [MV] The metric system in America

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 07:23:24 PDT


At 9:06 AM -0400 4/25/03, Fred Martin wrote:
>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

Then what does that say about folks that have vehicles with British
Standard Fine and British Standard Whitworth threads?

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