Conservatives set to ban metric system
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Probably not a bad idea.
Most things still are measured that way.....in particular building material, cooking instructions
Come to think of it, the only thing that really stuck was KM on the highway...even though cars still have miles on the odometer!
Most things still are measured that way.....in particular building material, cooking instructions
Come to think of it, the only thing that really stuck was KM on the highway...even though cars still have miles on the odometer!
I'm tired of buying hardware with some Chinese machinist's best guesses at Imperial dimensions, and stupid Phillips screws instead of Robertsons. We should finish the job and get with the rest of the world instead of going down w/ the Americans. Didya know they're still measuring nails by pennyweights? Horse and buggy stuff. If it wasn't bad enough that evejn back then a 2x4 wasn't 2x4, we long ago converted some of our sheet goods into metric. But since BM the PM pulled the plug on changing over, no one's ever really sure which 4x8 sheet isn't and whether that 1/2" ply is really some millimetre dimension and not 1/2" at all. No way to lead the developed world into the new century.
That feet and inches tape measure says 'Stolen from RMS Titanic' on it somewhere. And unlike what little Jacob's teachers are telling him: Accuracy does count.
That feet and inches tape measure says 'Stolen from RMS Titanic' on it somewhere. And unlike what little Jacob's teachers are telling him: Accuracy does count.
2X4's are 3.5 inches by 1.75 inches even in the US. They shrink during kiln drying and "finishing".
Well red you've fooled yet some more.
its not just the drying - 2x4 is the unfinished wood- its smalled once they smooth off all the rough edges.
whoops. i am gettin old and don't see that good.Do I have to bold the"finishing" in post #11
Once again train, you're steaming on w/o reading:
and replying w/ the obvious and irrelevant. Working with them daily, I'm well aware of modern stock lumber sizes and where the names, that don't match the dimensions, come from. And I have more than passing familiarity with old stock that was actually cut at 2x4, and likely still was when sold and built green. Unlike today's stock that isn't even cut at 2x4.oldjones said:
The point you missed is that measurement systems should reduce, not perpetuate, and certainly never increase inaccuracy. As our partly obsolete and bizarre current hybrid 'system' does.
Well if you would make your points coherently instead of rambling on about lumber perhaps more people would understand you. The point you missed in this whole thread was the tongue-in-cheek nature of it.
And the point you completely overlooked in your haste to turn a mote into a beam to beat me with is that it's a serious problem trying to run 21st Century society with an incoherent non-system of measurements. Focusing on the topic instead of personalizing might help.
But as to measurement non-systems: Remember the Gimli glider? Same problem as cutting those 2x4s to match metric 4x8 ply, or comparing prices on the imperial sized can of tomatoes from the US and the metric one from Leamington. Only lives were at stake when they got the amount of avgas wrong.
A topic that deserves to be taken seriously, for all that red's tongue may have been in his cheek when he started the thread.
But as to measurement non-systems: Remember the Gimli glider? Same problem as cutting those 2x4s to match metric 4x8 ply, or comparing prices on the imperial sized can of tomatoes from the US and the metric one from Leamington. Only lives were at stake when they got the amount of avgas wrong.
A topic that deserves to be taken seriously, for all that red's tongue may have been in his cheek when he started the thread.
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