Posted by unc on September 19, 2021 at 09:15:35 from (104.243.223.18):
In Reply to: Canada Question posted by GordyMN on September 18, 2021 at 19:15:01:
"in Canada we are a little standard and a little metric and a little weird. Makes us all around good enough for me."[/quote]
cjunrau sums it up pretty well. I graduated high school in 1975, at the very beginning of the conversion. I've bought gas in both gallons and litres, porkloin in pounds and kilograms. At the start, I carried a pocket slide rule and converted back and forth. Don't bother much anymore. I know the weather temperatures in Celsius, but still do my heat treating temperatures in Fahrenheit. I can read metric drawings with ease, but given the choice, I still work in inches.
In the nineties, I worked for a spring manufacturer. Most of our drawings (not all) were in imperial, but most of our workforce only knew metric measure. The management of the time was determined to pound the imperial system into our metric workers- didn't work. After years of expensive mistakes, we finally added metric dimensions to our drawings. Problem solved.
Somewhere along the line, I just quit fussing about it.
Well, time to get ready for church. It's 8*C out, so I better put on a jacket. Just talking about vehicles last night. My Jeep has 220,000km on it, but still getting 35MPG. It's only 15km to the west place, but we're moving into town where the stores are only a mile away. See what I mean? We pick and choose which method of measure we use. I have a lovely digital read-out on my Bridgeport -one push of a button gives you imperial, another gives you metric. My favourite paint measuring cup has ounces on one side, and ml on the other.
Our Aussie friends converted somewhere around the time we did. When I read their posts, they are always in metric dimensions. Anybody want to chime in on this?
As flexible as I try to be, my favourite wrench is 9/16", and an acre is still 43,560 square feet. Y'all have a good day. unc
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