[USMA:29932] Briggs and Stratton

[john mercer]

Hello Chimp and all.  The engine that Brigs and Stratton converted from standard to metric fasteners is built in the U S.  They have been making this model of engine for about 8 or 9 years. It is a 206 cc horizontal shaft model intek. As i said in my last post they changed the fasteners on this engine on Jul. 1 03. I could be wrong but i don't think a large company like B and S were forced to change the fasteners since that engine has been produced for some time with inch fasteners.  Chimp you say if i asked the people who work at the Briggs factory how they would like to drive on streets with metric speeds, if the speed signs and distance signs were changed at the same time and cars were equipt with metric speedometers i still say there wouldn't be a problem. When metric speed and distance signs came on Canadian roads people got used to them very quickly.  Before the metric signs were installed people didn't think metric at all. My point is that people can adapt.If Canada had gone ahead with the metric conversion it would have become part of every day life and it has as far as it has gone.  Thanks again for letting me ramble.