-J
I've noticed that instructions on consumer goods are usually in
customary units only. For example, home appliances and furnishings that
require installations will give drill sizes and hole patterns in
inches. Frozen pizzas, cake mixes, etc. give cooking instructions in
degrees Fahrenheit and cups with no metric equivalents. This is an area
that needs progress. Perhaps writing some letters to get a few major
manufacturers to include metric equivalents in their instructions might
get the ball rolling. It would be nice to see the government mandate
that instructions on consumer goods include metric values just like they
require metric quantity declarations on prepackaged foods, but I doubt
that's likely to happen any time soon.
