From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 12:40:59 PDT
Ryan...thats fine if someone wants a Brit car or a French car (I think
they have a system called Lowenhurst(sp)in France) and if you get out
the machinists handbook and look, there are other systems. Some of the
engine lathes of today will cut SAE, metric and a system called
modular...I don't know about this system... But we are Americans! And
the nation is being crippled by the mixing of SAE and metrics. Who
profits from it? The car companys? I don't think so...it just slows down
mechanical America. Unless someone can show me a good reason for
it...I'm gonna continue to bitch to high heavens...cause it's not right
for our fine country...and I'll bet theres not a mechanic in America
that will go against the grain on it. Fred Martin, Greenfield, Ohio
Ryan Gill wrote:
> 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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