Yeah...most alignment machines can do ounces or grams as the weights.
The weights my friend gets at his shop are dual ounces/grams. The
alignment machine however, he keeps at ounces.
Not because he set it that way, but because it defaulted that way
from the dealer....and he never bothered to change it. Doesn't
really have to seeing as how the weights he uses are dual.
That's the problem with dual use measurements. Given the choice,
people stick with the norm. If his machine or weights only did
grams, he'd use grams.
This falls into why the FPLA amendment is so important.
At 14:11 2005-09-18, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
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!
>
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