Well put, Gregory. As a USA educated citizen, I must say that when I
piddled with my mower engine or my auto engine, it was a lot easier to use
metric wrenches . . . 10mm too small, then it must be 11mm. Whereas if 3/16"
is too small, I always had to stop and think would I need a 7/32" or 1/4"
and so on. But now, when I hear distance reported as being 17 kilometers, I
still have no idea how far that is. I know a meter and a yard is
approximately the same (39" and 36") so I can eventually come to some kind
of answer that is reasonably correct. I am, however, looking for a left
hand, metric, adjustable wrench.
Danny
"Gregory" <flightsim.maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:a9ah745i5pmcmojjn605t9265dsg1hf199@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:23:46 +0200, Marcel Kuijper
> <zoepetier_nothing_here@hotmail.com> brought the following:
>
>>/BEGIN RANT/
>>
>>Can people please stop using the Imperial System??
>>
>>I was reading an article of the Airliners.net forum on another near miss
>>mid-air collision during a perpendicular take-off at JFK.
>>
>>One guy said :"They spoke of 500 feet seperation."
>>
>>Another guy replied :"I heard it was more like half a mile."
>>
>>Now here, with the metric system, when someone says "half a kilometer",
>>everyone else knows it's 500 meters, because 1 kilometer is 1000 meters.
>>It's a nice round number.
>>
>>Metric System
>>----------------------
>>10 millimeters = 1 centimeter
>>100 centimeters = 1 meter
>>1000 meters = 1 kilometer
>>
>>
>>Imperial System
>>------------------------
>>100 inches = 8.33 feet
>>1000 inches = 27 yards
>>1 mile = 5.280 feet
>>1 mile = 1.760 yards
>>
>>Half a mile = 880 yards or 2.640 feet.
>>
>>I'm sorry, but this system just makes no sense. Where's the logic?
>>
>>Or is my vision towards the Imperial System just slightly skewed?
>>Cos it's giving me a headache everytime.
>
>
> Easy to explain.. we use inches to make things in the shop.
> Everything is inches and thousandth of an inch (1 mil). A part
> could be 3.75" x .75" x 0.188" think. Ex: last cut on the milling
> machine is 2-1/2 thousandth. Also for objects that fit inside a
> room, like a 42" diagonal video screen and a 10" cooking skillet,
> a 6" long adjustable wrench. :))
>
> Feet are used for both indoor and outdoor projects. :-]
>
> Yards are for use in sports like football.. no, not footie ball!!
>
> Miles are for our motorcars. Miles of road, Miles per Gallon of GAS,
> sorry not petrol!!
>
> -G
>
>
