In my teens, there was metric, confined to meters [or metres] used by
amateur radio operators, and all the rest: inches, feet, pounds,
gallons, quarts, cups, teaspoons, tablespoons, and the other plethora of
stupid measures I grew up with. We had 2x4's, which actually were not
2" x 4". We measured nails in pennies ... I'm sure there was a reason
... OK, not so sure, but that's how it was. Then, the US Military sent
me to the other side of the planet, and over time I began to think
metric. Meters, grams, kilograms, liters became normal. I came home ...
they still are normal, I now have to convert metric to stupid. It would
be great if we actually did join the rest of the world before the end of
my lifetime. But, I'm not holding my breath.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 8/28/2020 6:14 PM, Rich NE1EE wrote:
Yes ;-) I started w metric in the 70s, because it made a lot of sense. When I
got my license in the 90s, I had to pick up a few Craftsman metric tape
measures on one of my trips to Canada...could not find one in the US at all.
Worth noting that while you can often swap sockets and wrenches twixt US and
metric...there are many sizes that have close equivalents...the same does not
hold true at all for nuts and screws that I have found. Might be some that are
close, but I have not stumbled across them.
On 2020-08-28 17:48:-0700, Phil Kane wrote:
On 8/28/2020 1:49 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:
Metric 6 mm is close enough to thread on but wrong threads per inch?
Remember that US electronics is slowly going Metric inch by inch.... :)
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
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