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Quote:
Originally Posted by masraum
Technically, it doesn't matter functionally in the slightest.
But, if I need to get out one socket/wrench set (metric only) or two (metric and SAE) AND I have to remember which fasteners are which, that'd be a pain compared to staying all metric.
But if I bought something that came with SAE fasteners, I probably wouldn't re-engineer it to use metric just because.
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Bingo. Tools? A lot of what you have depends on your age...back in my teern years, when I started doing minor stuff, my cars were aLL SAE, so I collected a lot of wrenches & sockets...now I probably have more metric, but didn't thrown the SAE tools away.
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