John Ward wrote: [begin] Machinists make a big point to not do anything in metric, and if you give them a metric drawing, they will pencil in inches everywhere, and make the part in inches. To me, this seems like a lot of extra work and creates opportunity for error. Yet most machinist bear a grudge against the metric system, and make it a point to avoid it as much as possible. They also make it a point to train new machinists inches-only, indoctrinate the anti-metric grudge, and avoid buying metric tooling. Therefore, most engineers draw inches drawings. [end]
Do you know why the machinists have this attitude? If you asked one of them, "It seems that you dislike working in metric units. Why is that?" what would they say? Carl
