2002-12-28 Someone must have requested them or no one in Australia would import them. Even if it is surplus, it would not be sent to Australia if someone did not order them right down to the store level. Someone must be buying those rulers or shops wouldn't bother to stock them.
Send surplus FFU products to an English-speaking metric country blindly would only be done if non-English speaking persons falsely believed that if someone is speaking English they are measuring in it too. A belief that really needs to be proven wrong. I just wonder how many surplus rulers of metric only design are sent to the US. I'll bet either very few or only if requested. And I doubt the request is high. As for Wallpaper, I've seen imported rolls here and they list dimensions and show metric scales on them. I guess to see for one's self if the paper is a true 2.25 foot roll, a 685 mm roll, or something else, would be to measure it. With 400 mm or 600 mm stud spacing, I would expect a roll to be 600 mm or some number that allows for minimum wastage. Could you ask your friend if you can "borrow" a standard roll and measure one yourself and see for sure. Then as your friend how he controls wastage using an inch based product on metric standard homes. Report here your results. This problem should gradually disappear as the USA goes more and more metric. Don't hold your breath on this happening to a degree to solve the dumping of FFU products on the world market until after 2010. > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin LCAMS > Geelong, Australia > John
