Thank you for proving my point. :D

Well look at this thread.

Next topic: Metric Oils - which should I use in my car? :D

You're being nice. Based on this thread alone, I woulda called him an obnoxious crackhead.

A kilogram is 2.2 pounds. A meter is 40 inches. A tonne is bigger than a ton, but not much. A speck of seasoning is what balances on the fingertip, a pinch is what's pinched between two fingers. A gallon of water weighs 8 pounds, but costs less than 8 pounds.

Not going to read all 7 previous pages but using base 10 would be so much easier than the imperial system.
Just writing this after measuring for a new set of blinds that the new dog destroyed.
57 14/16. WTF? We're better than this, or maybe not.

How about Metric Tyres? ;)

That is easier to say that one as 14 & 7/8th. Same measurement.

I have used both my whole life from Honda minibikes to both foreign and domestic cars to a mechanical design engineer career. I have plenty of both wrenches sockets etc.

I prefer designing in inches, feet and pounds but design in both depending on customer specs.

To this day, I have to really think or use a converter when dealing with weight, volume or torque measurements in metric. If given the choice, I would never use the metric system. :p

Now get off my lawn

I have owned a VW Bug or a Porsche since I was was 16, and I did most of the maintenance and repairs on them. So yea, I have a full set of metric tools.

I have a drawer of SAE wrenches and sockets, but not near as much as metric. I did not even own SAE tools until I got the El Camino. It is part metric, and part SAE so find a wrench that fits is a challenge sometimes.

As we all understand it a 13 is too small, go to a 14 if the 13 was just a but small. I still have to stop and think if I am using a 5/16th and need to go up one size. That is when metric shines the most.

Do you remember the Michelin TRX? 415mm rim size.

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I feel like I remember a time when he wasn't yelling at everyone to get off his lawn. I'm giving him the benefit of a doubt and honor his history of being a less grumpy, more positive and productive poster.

I guess I just grew up with Imperial units and learned to appreciate metric when I got my first motorcycle. I seldom bother with conversion unless I find myself unconsciously converting mpg to l/100km.
For most things I don't even think about it. Just go with the flow.
Some folks seem to spend a lot of time agonizing over trivial things.
In the non-trivial, if I recall correctly, there were actually two incidents where Air Canada jets ran out of fuel due to flight deck crew ordering fuel in kg and receiving their fuel in lbs.(ie: ordered10,000 kg got 10,000lbs) One was, as mentioned above the Gimli Glider, the other landed in the Canary Islands.
Not too many alternate runways in the Atlantic. :confused:

Best
Les

The cars we have are now mostly metric...but our appliances are still USA...try getting the covers off without a 1/4" nut driver. Actually, nut drivers are rollaway space robbers. A 1/4" square drive driver handle and a good collection of 1/4" drive sockets works as well and covers a wider variety of sizes than most nut driver sets.

(edit) Les, I just watched a video on the Grimli Glider...hell of a story. They sure had the right pilot at the controls!

Many, many years ago I had a Saab 900 turbo that needed a tire. I loaded it into another car and went to the tire shop- manager comes out, takes one look at the tires and proclaims “you’re f**cked”. Yup, metric size and tough to find. I think he managed to find one somewhere; can’t remember what ever happened to that car.

Would 36-26-36 sound right in metric, though?

91-66-91 just doesn’t have that va va voom.

The conversion that trips me up the most is temperature.

Intellectually I know that to convert from C to F you multiply by 1.8 and add 32 (e.g. 28C = 1.8 * 28 + 32 = 80.4F and the reverse for F to C, subtract 32 and divide by 1.8 (e.g. 76F = (76 - 32) / 1.8 = 24.4 C, and that using 2 instead of 1.8 is close enough for daily life. But in practice I just go out and am too cold or too hot.

Base 10 !?

n'no, we must do everything now in base 2 to appease our AI overlords - it's the future doncha know

But that’s where metric makes more sense.

Freezing is 0, boiling is 100.

Versus freezing is 32 unless you happen yo have a solution of water, ice and ammonium chloride, in which case it’s 0.


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As they say there are 10 types of people...:D

I have lots and lots of fasteners that I have collected for years and they are all imperial.
Metric for all of the toys.

Agreed, the F/C thing is a pain.
0 and 100 are great, but I prefer the more granular F index to C. I like thinking about setting the HVAC to 70, 71, or 72 better than 21, 21.5, and 22. I think 0-200 would have been preferable to either. But then if I'd grown up with 0-100 and thinking of tenths, I'd probably be fine with that.