Hi all,
While on one of my trips down to the local hardware store I noticed that in
addition to SAE wrenches there were metric wrenches hiding in a dark corner
on the shelf.
I was talking to a couple friends who are in the construction industry and
they told me that there are even such things as metric drill bits and other
tools that are in use in the US and are accurate enough "in a pinch" as far
as construction goes, although the USC measured bits and such were more
precise.
One of them mentioned to me that SAE and other US measures as far as nail
sizes pipe sizes etc are still in use in metric nations even if it's
converted to a metric millimeter size because the US exported so much of
it's building after World War 2 and that those foreign country's building
associations adopted a metric version of the USC measures for their own use
because it was the best one at the time. He did however say that the board
sizes are in metric even if the nails and screws and such that are used to
hook them up are in US measures or SI equivalent.
Are there really USC measures in use in construction outside of the US? I
know I've never seen any SI used in construction here aside from finishing,
cabinetry, and countertop and othe stone/tile things.
I also thought it was funny that I was looking at a circular saw with
a 7.25inch blade and on the box packaging it was marked
7.25 in (184,1cm) but on the blade itself it was listed as 184mm. Apparently
manufacturer's can't settle on which measurement to use.
Mike
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