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To: TChris
It's an education and acceptance problem, not inferiority.

Wrongo! I majored in physics, so the metric system is something I understand well. The problem is replacing dreadfully expensive machine tools.

148 posted on 11/05/2012 4:27:45 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK
> It's an education and acceptance problem, not inferiority.

Wrongo! I majored in physics, so the metric system is something I understand well. The problem is replacing dreadfully expensive machine tools.

OK, so you're in the "acceptance" camp rather than the "education" one. Your milling machine can't cut a millimeter of metal off? What does it do, skip over it until you've dialed in a nice Imperial measurement? Other than a screw machine, I guess I don't know enough about machine tools to understand why the machine would care what system it's on. The computer controls don't speak metric?

258 posted on 11/06/2012 8:50:48 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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