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To: null and void

If you’ve ever tried using the metric system in the machine shop, you’ll realize how unwieldy it is. My company makes parts for a who’s who of the automotive world. The parts are all metric, but the blueprints and tolerances are all in inches


90 posted on 11/05/2012 3:15:02 PM PST by Figment
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To: Figment

Ok, about the machine shops finding metric unwieldy. Why is that? Can you give an example that a non machinist can understand.


131 posted on 11/05/2012 4:00:48 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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