J. (sorry if I called you John, unless that is your name)

My Saturn recently had a wheel balancing job. The balance weights attached to
wheels are in (gulp) ounces!

Back in the 1970s, when high-quality analog stereo systems were a status symbol,
we used to brag about how many (or, how few?) grams our turntables would "track
at."

Quoting "J. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I just got my brakes checked at the Saturn dealer.  The American woman
> at the counter said my brakes pads were 1.5 mm thick, and to start
> thinking about a brake job when the pads are thinner than 2 mm.  No
> references to non-metric units were given.  And I drive an American car!
>
>


Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Editor, "Metric Today"
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"There are two cardinal sins, from which all the others spring: impatience and
laziness."           ---Franz Kafka

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