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
