At 17 11 05, 09:05 PM, Remek Kocz wrote:
Printing industry slowly metricating? I thought this is one
industry outside of aircraft and construction that would be
impossible to even budge from the USC units. Can you give any
specific examples?
Several small examples (I said "slowly"!):
Reams of copy paper often have paper weights listed in grams/square meter now.
I am seeing more engineer literature show up in A4 size.
20 years ago when QSI sent out "die lines" for steel-rule dies, we
had to dual-dimension them. Most die cutters now can handle
millimeters. Ditto for printers.
Construction is definitely moving metric too, albeit slowly. For
example, Pergo flooring is in metric sizes (600x1200 mm, I think).
The I-15 reconstruction in the Salt Lake City area ($4B) was done
entirely metric.
For what it's worth, a guy whose wife fills her own shells told me
that she weighs the loads in grams. Not grains--I specifically asked.
That's great, but I'm sure she is pretty rare in using grams.
Jim
