John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 15375:

>If I want to build a home project and do it in inches, but all the materials
>are made to metric sizes, then again I am hampered from using my "system" of
>choice at home.  I will always have to do some type of aggravating back
>conversions, so in effect I don't have the convenience I would have if
>everything was in my units of choice.


For years I have done all my woodworking in mefric although all materials
that I could buy were imperial.  That included fitting out a bare van into
a very complete mobile home.

Joseph B. Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto    M5P 1C8                       Tel. 416 486-6071

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