Not even that. The proposal is to continue US Letter paper, but dual label as 216 x 279 mm as well as 8.5 x 11 inches.
--- On Wed, 7/4/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:51743] Re: Units in brain ticklers To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 6:12 PM How silly is that there is no need for new "equipment", just readjustment of the cutter, metric paper is smaller in width and longer in height. Just like dry wall, they can cut it to any length, they please. Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ Jul 3, 2012 10:06:39 PM, [email protected] wrote: =========================================== 2012 July 3 I have not found a way to see standards other than buying them. So, I do not see them. ASTM headquarters is not ready to use metric. I asked them to list the size of publications in millimeters. They answered that they would not pay the cost of changing to new cutting equipment for publications. I did not ask them to change the size. This is a psychological problem. I guess we need to get the elected officers to tell the staff to work on changing to millimeters. Staff needs to figure out how to do it. Find reasonably close millimeter numbers for 8.5" x 11". They would not tell me the standard for inch page sizes so I do not know the tolerance. But I think a whole millimeter number will be close enough without new cutters. Let's keep trying. Robert Bushnell -------------------------------- On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:14 AM, mechtly, eugene a wrote: > Excellent request Bob! > > Do we have a way to survey the percentage of SI in ASTM Standards? > As Committee E43, do we have review access to publications without having to > buy each of them? > > Eugene Mechtly > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Robert > H. Bushnell [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 4:34 PM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Cc: USMA > Subject: [USMA:51733] Units in brain ticklers > > 2012 July 2 > Curt Gomulinski > TAU BETA PI > I see a bunch of inch-pound units in the brain ticklers > in the Summer 2012 issue of the Bent. Can you help us all by using > only metric units? > > The US is way behind the rest of the world in use of metric > units. The Bent can help by showing it's readers (the best > engineers) where metric numbers fit in all kinds of problems. > > Please add your influence to getting rid of inch-pound numbers. > Thanks, > Robert H. Bushnell > Ohio Gamma 1945 >
